Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy returned with arms full of torches , switching each on and positioning them in the brackets of the huge copper boilers , or on the floor so that surreal fans of light were cast against the dirty plaster walls . |
| 2 | you see , and three more went like that eventually but er he got the dough and that was it . |
| 3 | Bile for cytology was aspirated through a catheter within or above the endoprosthesis by the endoscopist and sent on the day of sampling to the Cytology Department . |
| 4 | Swindon now says it 's business as usual on and off the field ; building on the weekend 's success against Notts County ; aiming for Premier League football next year . |
| 5 | erm No , no I do n't think so , I 've erm been a successful I 've been more successful that most and I it would appear greedy if I erm said that there was something that I think I would have done differently . |
| 6 | Suggested answers/argument : Origins lay in political changes of 19th century- franchise , Labour etc. or : Origins lay in need to maintain growth of capitalist economy . |
| 7 | While little direct evidence is available on the fate of the mountain populations during this period , there is little doubt they were too weak numerically and organizationally to put up any effective resistance to either power . |
| 8 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 9 | Count 1 alleged the obtaining of property by deception contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the particulars being that on or about 16 March 1988 the appellant dishonestly obtained from the Halifax Building Society a cheque for £150,000 by falsely representing ( a ) that his basic annual income was £90,000 , ( b ) that he had never been bankrupt and did not have any judgment or proceedings for debt outstanding and ( c ) that he did not have any bank or other loans or charge/credit card debts . |
| 10 | Is that on or off ? |
| 11 | And er put that on and tied them back and front and up on them tied them to the sides of the coble and and usually towed it with another rowing boat . |
| 12 | Whether this justifies the conclusion of Esther Moir that " The most that can be said is that on and off the bench , the Justices interposed between the parish overseer and his helpless victim " is uncertain . |
| 13 | And I rang that on and off right to ten to four and they were n't in . |
| 14 | Have n't got the key to go round there once so , I 'll put that on and I 've got a nightie . |
| 15 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 16 | I think you 'd better tape erm , put that on and tape it |
| 17 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 18 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 19 | Erm , secondly , we will only be able to do that effectively and this is the point you were making about say , erm , school governors and so on , if people really feel they do have some genuine power , locally , it must be about enabling and empowering local groups to have power and take part within their community . |
| 20 | ( i ) bodily injury sustained while under the influence of or ( ii ) disablement due wholly or partly to the effects of intoxicating liquor or drugs other than drugs taken in accordance with treatment prescribed and directed by a qualified registered medical practitioner but not for the treatment of drug addiction . |
| 21 | Bank loans due wholly or partly after five years attract interest at rates between 7 per cent and 11 ¼ per cent . |
| 22 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |
| 23 | So if you could now get together with your people , all the ones together , all the twos together and all the threes together and rearrange the tables in an area of the room where you 'd like to work . |
| 24 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 25 | The evidence given by the HM Inspectorate ( Scotland ) to the 1968 Select Committee is however complete enough and shows a good spread of backgrounds . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , we can do something about that straightaway and at the same time keep you under observation . |
| 27 | The British consul-general in Seoul thought that Soviet suspicion of the anti-trusteeship groups was understandable enough and that both sides in the Joint Commission were jockeying to gain the best tactical place before the breakdown of talks ; neither wished to appear responsible for precipitating the collapse . |
| 28 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 29 | He was friendly enough and that , but I du n no , I felt sort of uncomfortable with him . |
| 30 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |