Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their winter homes were log cabins , either free-standing or half sunk in the earth and covered with turf . |
| 2 | By allowing experiments to be performed on a computer which would be impractical or dangerous to perform in the physical world , it also allows the design engineer to probe new areas . |
| 3 | There are three types , called cationic , anionic or nonionic depending on whether they work by carrying a positive , negative or zero electric charge respectively . |
| 4 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 5 | This observation has led to the suggestion that whether a passive margin is volcanic or non-volcanic depends on whether the site of rifting happens to coincide with the location of a mantle plume and its associated hot spot . |
| 6 | Advertisements may range in size from a small window notice to a massive hoarding ; they vary in purpose from a bus stop sign to the demand to buy a certain make of detergent ; they could be situated alongside a cathedral , in a busy shopping street , or in a particularly beautiful rural setting ; they might be pleasant or obnoxious to look at ; they might be temporary or permanent ; and so on . |
| 7 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 8 | Similarly , our melodies are our own , but they may be striking or mediocre according to some hidden talent or the lack of it . |
| 9 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 10 | As the outside and upper are also designed with weight rather than durability in mind , unless you are exceptionally light on your feet you would have to be either foolish or wealthy to train in a pair of racers . |
| 11 | We no longer allow the weak or foolish or unfortunate to perish in the gutters of a city slum . |
| 12 | Whether we regard a concept as ontological or simple depends on our choice of description language . |
| 13 | He commences upon the dismantling of assumptions of where the texts are funny or obscene based on modern suppositions of what constitutes obscenity et al. , and puts forward a theory that picks up a suggestion of Nykrog 's concerning the relationship of fabliau and romance : that the fabliaux flourished as a conservative reaction to new notions of gentility and decency in behaviour and especially in language ; new notions that are found most clearly in the literary cult of fin amour . |
| 14 | In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation . |
| 15 | It is the West 's firmest commitment so far to helping clean up environmental damage in the East but also its clearest statement yet that it is not willing or able to pay for the process . |
| 16 | The fact that activities can be shifted from the public to the private sector ( and vice-versa ) suggests that the classification of functions or institutions as public or private according to their intrinsic nature is not the way to decide the scope of public law . |
| 17 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 18 | The music finally chosen helped greatly in creating a sombre mood , but John did not find it interesting or easy to work with . |
| 19 | Now those negative feelings had gone , and when she thought she detected an added happiness in their faces today she was n't afraid or reluctant to guess about it aloud . |
| 20 | The generosity of a Kettering shoe-manufacturer , Thomas Gotch , enabled him to study French and Dutch to add to the Greek he had already mastered . |
| 21 | In 1956 , The Queen Mother 's horse , Devon Loch was clear and certain to win for jockey Dick Francis . |
| 22 | I find often that nothing clear and definite comes until sometime later , possibly on the next morning , sometimes when carrying out the seemingly pedestrian duties of the day , when a short , crystallised thought comes into the mind with clarity and authority . |
| 23 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 24 | Yet despite this capacity to learn , the behavioural repertoire of chimpanzees is rudimentary and limited compared to people . |
| 25 | A cleaner in a Sheffield hospital has four teenage children , all unemployed and all living at home , and an unemployed husband . |
| 26 | The unemployed and many returning to the job market benefit from CAB basic training and with their new skills find paid employment elsewhere . |
| 27 | If the percentage is large , it may be more economical and feasible to dispose of the whole of the leased accommodation and move into something smaller . |
| 28 | THE majority of staff find Newsline informative , interesting and useful according to a survey by the Bank 's Market Research Section . |
| 29 | It now became interesting and profitable to work with others , both in the classroom and in more leisurely periods of revision . |
| 30 | Given that this is the case , it is interesting and instructive to reflect on why it is that these people have decided to call us their ‘ clients ’ . |