Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right to refuse should , of course , be upheld , even though the patient 's view is deemed irrational or unreasonable by the doctor or is based on what seem to be poor grounds . |
| 2 | The daily Assembly and class lessons develop the children 's thinking in the areas of religious and moral education , In P6 and P7 the children are introduced to either French , German or Spanish by a teacher from the Senior School Modern Languages Department . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , as I was tellin' the others , I 'll either be fit or dead by the time I get out of here . ’ |
| 4 | All alleys shall be painted white or yellow by the building owners and alley lights will be installed at the cost of the owner . |
| 5 | I 've yet to meet one who is n't engrossed in comparing his talent with other guitarists or who is n't frustrated or embarrassed by the fiscal constraints on the equipment he uses . |
| 6 | Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action . |
| 7 | Thus while many communities have labels to apply to various linguistic practices at different levels which are evaluated as good or bad by the community — for example , " grammatical " , " sloppy " , " drawl " , " h-dropping " — there seem to be very few or none which relate specifically to code-switching behaviour ( although there are a few terms , such as " Tex-Mex " , which refer to mixed varieties ) . |
| 8 | Compare sentences which indicate a negative or positive by the helpfulness of context . |
| 9 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |