Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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61 I mean is that man a spastic or what ?
62 It may be pleasant or it may be unpleasant .
63 I said what 's the matter with you Dave are you upset or what ?
64 ‘ I do n't know if she was upset or her eyes were watering because of the smoke .
65 Protected : Most cleaning products must be kept dry or their contents , packaging or labelling will suffer .
66 Fluid was said to persist until the ear was reported otoscopically dry or there was persistence of A , C1 , or C2 tympanometric peaks on consecutive visits for a period in excess of 12 months .
67 So once you 've cleansed , and once you 've toned you then make sure that the face is either tissued dry or you can actually pad to your face , after the toner , with a towel .
68 ‘ I must have been still asleep or something . ’
69 Where , unless somebody 's fallen asleep or something has bored somebody to death .
70 These future scenarios should permit deductions to be made about the particular environmental variable in view , whether this be technological , economic or whatever .
71 The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role .
72 Tried projecting negative of Bride from holograph enlarger , he wrote , but image thin and weak where I want it strong ( though indeterminate ) .
73 She held out for a mammoth ten seconds and then , weak where he was concerned , she could hold out no longer , and collapsed weakly , clingingly , against him .
74 Maybe , maybe I do n't know if he 's shy or anything , why he has n't phoned up Michael yet , perhaps I ought to ask Michael to phone him then , he does , yes .
75 ‘ In future it will run on Thursdays and it 's designed for people who are a bit shy or who want to protect their anonymity . ’
76 However , the system is by no means universally applied despite the existence of national guidelines and the sanctions against offenders are not nearly tough enough to deter all those whose standards are low or whose intentions in entering a profitable market are dishonourable .
77 If we are to move to an era of low or nil inflation and to the European way of doing things , whereby house prices will not increase , I do not know what will happen to the economy of the south of England or to unemployment .
78 I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it .
79 He had either bailed out too low or his parachute had malfunctioned .
80 If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do !
81 It was n't muddy or rusted or anything .
82 I do n't mean like sort of you wish like you wish that you like you 'll become rich or something .
83 ‘ You rich or somethin' ? ’
84 you know solid or there 's been an accident it tells you there 's an accident at , at this point
85 The Report acknowledged the problems involved in determining the levels of difficulty and complexity in the work that has to be carried out in the social services and the barriers that exist to sharing this work among different kinds of personnel but concluded that ‘ nevertheless , some distinction in work levels is possible and necessary in our view , and this is most practicable where there is close teamwork and an emphasis on ‘ team responsibility' ’ for cases , ( pp. 137–8 ) .
86 Perhaps you 're exhausted where you 've had a gear problem .
87 it 's not strong or owt you know ?
88 But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again .
89 It ca n't be all that strong or you 'd have arrested him by now . ’
90 We 'll put it right where we think it matters , on the training field and we 'll keep playing with the philosophy of working , training and competing . ’
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