Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 2 | These may be large- or small-scale databases designed with very specific educational aims , to cater for a particular topic or part of a course , or for more general use in the school library . |
| 3 | Another example is the breeding of new varieties specifically for certain environmental conditions , eg , for better performance under dry land farming conditions , for quicker growth in northern areas where the growing season is limited or for more efficient photosynthesis . |
| 4 | At least 88 per cent of sewage from coastal towns is discharged into the sea raw or after only basic screening to sift out solids . |
| 5 | In the discussion groups , some men seemed proud that they were n't romantic , viewing it as boring and effeminate , or of strictly short-term value . |
| 6 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 7 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 8 | Likewise , further groupings such as percentage of coarse sand or of very fine sand may also be calculated . |
| 9 | Although these allegations , if made good , clearly amount to wrongdoing on the part of the third defendant in relation to a number of individual matters , they do not convey to my mind a particularly comprehensible account of a conspiracy or of systematically fraudulent conduct . |
| 10 | There are also costs of compliance , for example , the costs of delays or of more expensive design or construction . |
| 11 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 12 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |
| 13 | In the case of gastrointestinal parasites , development may take place entirely in the gut lumen or with only limited movement into the mucosa . |
| 14 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 15 | In particular two small groups of vigilantes wearing diversely blazoned combat fatigues seemed to be sizing up Jaq 's trio , either with a view to offering their services or with less savoury intent . |
| 16 | He approached his first term at Lincoln College ‘ fairly well & in exceedingly good temper … |
| 17 | This is so where the structure and organisation of social groups and collectivities is fairly precisely defined by some overall set of rules , as , for example , in the armed services , or in other bureaucratic organisations like local government departments , the Civil Service , ICI , or in similarly organised work groups ( for instance in the coal or motor industries ) . |
| 18 | Miss Potts I was awfully sorry about that spider affair the other day , she began , of course Alicia and Daryl were in the classroom before hand , I 'm sure they know something about it , I heard Alicia say , Miss Potts looked up , are you trying to sneak she said , or in more polite language to tell tales , because if so , do n't try it on me . |
| 19 | The production of hymn books , supplements and small collections is so prolific that it is almost impossible to keep abreast of all that is in circulation , whether in traditional or in more popular vein . |
| 20 | ( The questions of who is nearer death or in more rigorous therapy become the subjects of virulent debate ) . |
| 21 | Words or phrases which appear only once , or in only one clause , can be defined in the clause in which they appear ; however , words or phrases which appear several times throughout the terms are best defined in a definitions clause . |
| 22 | Nordic composers around the turn of the century were not immune from quasi-medieval minstrelsy , or from routinely voluptuous piano arpeggios like Mendelssohn 's . |
| 23 | Single-minded devotion to one s own advancement , or to better pay , or to just one cause , strengthens one legitimate ingredient of the complex personal equation — but sometimes to the point where it eclipses and pre-empts the others . |
| 24 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 25 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 26 | Some of their ideas were shown to work ; the counter-inflation programme ( or at least that part of it which closed the inflationary gap from the fiscal end ) was worked out by them and was a successful contrast to the experience of World War I. Yet by itself the explanation is inadequate . |
| 27 | ( a ) the cancellation of the whole of the issued and paid-up share capital of the target company ( or at least that part of the share capital not already owned by the bidder ) ; this will be effected by a reduction of share capital ; |
| 28 | It is not surprising that there were many attracted to the idea that scientific knowledge was the only true kind , or at least that reasoning like that used in the sciences could solve all human problems . |
| 29 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 30 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |