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

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1 But everyone knew , even then , about unsatisfied or sublimated or postponed desires : the final step must be action .
2 Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry .
3 It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " .
4 She did n't know whether to be grateful or alarmed that her time here had softened her .
5 Some argue that these effects may be weak or delayed because domestic activity is so weak .
6 He must select and contrast the strong and weak or tensed and relaxed movements in order to give them tempo , rhythm and expressive quality .
7 As a generalisation this is all too true : however there are areas where the gap is narrow or narrowing and others where it hardly exists .
8 If a statement of affairs has been lodged , the official receiver must also send a summary of it together with his observations on it unless he has previously reported to them and nothing material can be added , but if the lodging of a statement of affairs has been dispensed with , the official receiver must give creditors a summary of the bankrupt 's affairs ( amplified , modified or explained as he thinks fit ) ( rr 6.75 and 6.76 ) .
9 But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past .
10 Never reveal any information about yourself to a stranger or say that you are alone .
11 In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese .
12 24 quails ' eggs , fresh or smoked or a mixture of both 25g/1oz softened butter 240g/8oz/carton strained Greek-style yogurt 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped chives 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped dill 50g/2oz pine kernels salt and pepper freshly grated Parmesan cheese to serve
13 Is it sharp and clear or blurred and ill-defined ?
14 It is English or nodding but their own sort of Spanish .
15 I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others .
16 It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts .
17 It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts .
18 So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off .
19 Griffiths made it clear that care and support could be provided from a variety of sources .
20 From ( 9–20b ) it is clear that ensures that the variance of earnings capacity converges to .
21 seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end .
22 What you 've got to take into account is that , an all , there 's an awful lot of things that you get when your unemployed that stop when you find a job .
23 They were the same , of course , that rich shade of brown that lightened and darkened as his mood changed .
24 Rousseau ( 1762 , p.54 ) wrote in Émile : ‘ Childhood has its own ways of seeing , thinking and feeling ; nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute our ways ’ .
25 Despite those difficulties , it is still easier than proving that the expert has made a " mistake " of sufficient gravity to invalidate the decision .
26 But what was easier than to assume that those who represented the stage of childhood or adolescence in the development of civilisation were themselves ‘ child-like ’ and had to be treated like children by their mature ‘ parents ’ ?
27 And I 'm afraid that means that what I say goes . ’
28 Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated .
29 A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing .
30 At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice .
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