Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rural Wales Awards , sponsored by National Westminster Bank , can be given by the county branches of CPRW for practically anything that promotes environmental good practice , or displays design that is in harmony with the landscape , or that has served to restore an important landscape feature ( natural or man-made ) , or that is innovative or promotes better environmental awareness and understanding . |
| 2 | moon god of Thebes , child of Amun and Mut , who is either falcon-headed or has a moon disk on his head . |
| 3 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 4 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 5 | Bassist Jennifer — 12 hours ' sleep in three days , we reckon — adding : ‘ I 'm having a really bad night tonight and I do n't know what it is , but the next person who smacks the mic or stands on our gear … |
| 6 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 7 | The human system is geared to this acquisition , and even when what is learned appears to be maladaptive or produces negative traits , it derives from a natural process . |
| 8 | Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening |
| 9 | Well why does n't , ca n't he do something about that or does he |
| 10 | But do you feel somebody wanted you to do that or has somebody just been watching the clock on the revivals and the clock 's ticked round to a point in time now ? |
| 11 | Not one of us begins life feeling angry or frustrated , no one as an infant is dissatisfied or lacks feelings of self worth . |
| 12 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
| 13 | Have I dreamt this or has Natasha moved from where she was originally ? |
| 14 | By and large the evidence which Engels and his contemporaries saw as significant of the high status of women in primitive societies is often wrong or does not signify what it was believed to mean . |
| 15 | Breaks Bass & Bleeps 4 |
| 16 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 17 | ‘ From what I can see , Katie , this man is either very careful or has been very lucky . |
| 18 | Everywhere there is delicious coffee served very strong and black in little cups — it is either free or costs about 2p , and seems as common as water here . |
| 19 | If the colours are lighter near the surface , the chances are that it is either old or has genuinely been bleached by the sun . |
| 20 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 21 | C. T. R. Wilson [ q.v. ] later showed that condensation can take place on ions in dust-free air , but this can only be achieved in the laboratory using greater expansion and cooling than occurs naturally . |
| 22 | Not only is the value element in education crucial , it is also highly problematic and it is this that creates particular problems for curriculum planning . |
| 23 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 24 | Taylor called for a ban on the video and said : ‘ Something like this that glorifies cheating brings the game into open disrepute . ’ |
| 25 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 26 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 27 | It is this that bears the most striking contrast to the equivalent moments in Romeo and Juliet . |
| 28 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 29 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 30 | It is this that turns a get-away-from-it-all holiday into a get-away-from-only-a-bit-of-it one . |