Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained . |
| 2 | So 86 per cent of Asian day centre users relied on income support , while only 14 per cent have state and/or private pensions above income support rates . |
| 3 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 4 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Similarly , if women 's role as workers is emphasised to the detriment of consideration of their role as housewives and — more particularly — their role as mothers , then the ‘ proletarianisation ’ of women could confine them and their children to dependence on means-tested state benefits and/or low pay from part-time ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 7 | It must be remembered , however , that these xenoliths and veins do not represent frozen melt compositions , but rather the respective cumulate and infiltrate products of fractionally crystallized melts and/or associated fluids in an open system , so chemical resemblance may be fortuitous . |
| 8 | Indemnity in respect of legal liability for accidental injury to Third Parties and/or accidental damage to their property . |
| 9 | These proteins are usually bound to the plasma membrane by myristylation and/or direct attachment to membrane proteins . |
| 10 | Where State and/or public definitions of crime become less tolerant . |
| 11 | Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time . |
| 12 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 13 | The outcomes of working in such ‘ teams ’ will include : poor communication and/or high level of conflict , limited or conditional commitment , poor quality decision making with limited innovation , inhibited implementation , confused objectives and poor motivation compromising performance . |
| 14 | Therefore , you have to decide the quickest and/or cheapest way of attending the interview . |
| 15 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 16 | As we saw , experiments by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) on auditory word recognition showed that a word can be identified more rapidly if it is predictable , that is , if there are syntactic and/or semantic constraints on the number of possible words which might occupy that particular position in a sentence . |
| 17 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 18 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 19 | The first is that in which movements such as the democratic movement and the labour movement in Europe , the women 's suffrage movement and independence movements in colonial territories at a later time , or present-day movements in autocratic states , provide the only effective means for expressing grievances and seeking to bring about political changes . |
| 20 | We have investigated the differences in the architecture of the corresponding open complexes by comparing the positioning of holoenzymes reconstituted respectively with native or with truncated α-subunits ( containing the first 235 or 256 residues of a ) at two ‘ up ’ promoter mutants of the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters ( respectively lac UV5 and gal 9A16C ) . |
| 21 | Orchard Fahrenheit 1280o Will give you a stunning 16 million colours at 640 by 480 or 256 colours at 1,024 by 768 , it is a little slower than some of its competitors but quite a bit cheaper at around £200 |
| 22 | Colour display systems available for personal computers such as the IBM VGA allow the use of up to 16 colours ( light and dark versions of the primary colours red , green and blue together with their combinations — yellow , cyan and magenta — plus black and white ) at a resolution of 640 x 480 , or 256 colours at a reduced screen resolution of 320 x 200 . |
| 23 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 24 | So now , whether you 'd like granulated fruit & herb flavour baby drinks , ready to drink juices or concentrated juices for baby , you can safely turn to Robinsons . |
| 25 | Another way in which a patient may seek to achieve control over his fate once he has become incompetent is through the device of an Enduring or Durable Power of Attorney . |
| 26 | However , there is no empirical evidence to suggest that exchange rate changes have a systematic or durable impact on productivity growth rates . |
| 27 | WE CAN BUILD FREE-STANDING , ¾ SPAN OR LEAN-TO STRUCTURES FROM 12ft . |
| 28 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 29 | There are plenty of examples of such a control being effected by the use of coercive sanctions in the world today — from the killing of real or imagined enemies by despots to the widespread use of torture and incarceration in prisons and camps in many different countries . |
| 30 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |