Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [is] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows . |
| 2 | Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive . |
| 3 | Oh , well it 's either that or she 's just ignorant ! |
| 4 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
| 5 | In the case of a building , the seller may be ignorant : if the seller knew of a risk and sold without disclosure , he or she is probably liable at law , but builders come and builders go , and those who deliberately mislead mostly go . |
| 6 | Do not leave the purchaser until he or she is completely satisfied with the demonstration . |
| 7 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 8 | If Ayer then tells the theist that he or she is still unable to make meaningful theological statements , then it can not surely be on the basis of the verification principle , the principle by which he claims to distinguish meaningful from meaningless statements . |
| 9 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 10 | The role of the consultant psychogeriatrician in this service is different from that in the conventional model ; rather than being the principal performer of the initial diagnostic assessments , he or she is directly involved in assessing only dubious , difficult , and urgent cases . |
| 11 | This stressed-out poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable , and that if they ease up on their workload the axe will fall . |
| 12 | The older youngster , on the other hand , may have a very real and concrete sexual difficulty of which he or she is perfectly conscious . |
| 13 | Society tells your drug friend living in the squats that he or she is incurably evil . |
| 14 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 15 | Strike up some personal rapport with the person in charge Of the centre so that he or she is more likely to go that extra mile for you . |
| 16 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |
| 17 | You ca n't make an individual schedule appear which includes both the tasks the person is responsible for and the ones he or she is merely involved in . |
| 18 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 19 | It is the doctor 's job to tell the patient or the patient 's family , when he or she is terminally ill , but once the diagnosis and prognosis have been given , the nurse copes with the emotional effects . |
| 20 | A traditional worker who absents himself without good reason or who persistently fails to show up for his job is likely to he disciplined or dismissed , and a casual worker who fails to appear without being able to offer good justification , or who is seldom available , is likely to be dropped from the list of those who an organisation will contact . |
| 21 | Erm brighter on the side which is furthest away from us , and the fact that he 's er , he or she , is eating a , you know a piece of fruit or something is quite appealing . |
| 22 | This poem hints that we can go beyond the form of the ritual only.to be horrified by the realization that there is nothing there , or there is only some petty squalor , meaning having receded out of sight if it was ever present in the first place . |
| 23 | I mean either we 're not there or there 's too many of us there . |
| 24 | And the roofs that keep the snow for along time , do so either because the house is unoccupied or it 's pretty cold inside , or it 's got a well insulated loft . |
| 25 | Yes , or it 's just another tragic waste of a life . |
| 26 | wide , or it 's too short or . |
| 27 | Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure . |
| 28 | I think what 's happened the moon is is either set already or it 's so low down in the sky we ca n't see it because the buildings and things are in the way . |
| 29 | Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all . |
| 30 | or it 's very difficult to keep it smooth |