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

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1 But the disparity in intelligence which Michael felt or imagined made no difference to their affection .
2 An elderly woman in her 50s or 60s suffered a serious leg injury from the fallout of the explosion .
3 If it is not considered appropriate or possible to lodge an early Tender , then once the necessary information or Medical Report is available , the Tender should be lodged as soon as possible thereafter .
4 Whether it is something as special as a wedding bouquet or as simple as a few flowers gathered on a picnic outing together , knowing where and when the flowers were picked or used adds a great deal to the meaning of the picture , and the recipient will be very touched at your thoughtful and generous gesture .
5 It can be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise to give a left or right hand .
6 Because its prime concern had to be the restoration of viability , then where that implied a loss of jobs , the Agency would only recommend rescue if the workforce understood and accepted the implication , would arrange for the selection of those who were to become members of the co-operative and , by exclusion , decide who would lose their jobs .
7 Obviously in the average garden it may be impossible or undesirable to place the pool in the lower part .
8 In the Midlands , the Tories lost Nuneaton , where Labour overturned a majority of more than 5,500 .
9 To me , the third striking aspect of my aunt 's remark is her ability or right to predict the future for me .
10 You also need to become accustomed to thinking and using degrees , and deciding whether you need to turn left or right to change the heading .
11 If both remain silent , or each accuses the other , it is impossible in law to obtain a conviction against either .
12 Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed .
13 The uniqueness of the arrangement that flies , or that opens the safe , is nothing to do with hindsight .
14 Any sexual activity which draws blood from the genital area or that pierces the skin .
15 It 's imprudent for the bank to take the traditional senior debt gearing beyond prudent levels or that endangers the whole .
16 More than double , 65 per cent , would prefer the Tories or Labour to have an overall majority .
17 Almost no-one wants to see the Tories or Labour do a deal with the Ulster Unionists .
18 These will be prompted and predetermined where possible to minimise the effort involved .
19 Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible
20 Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss .
21 all figures must be reliable ; where possible explain the degree of reliability
22 A South Bank Centre touring exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre , ‘ Air , Land and Sea ’ examines the affiliations between Lanyon 's constructions and paintings , and where possible re-unites the related artefacts , thus illuminating his working methods and presenting new perspectives .
23 That is needed where possible to make the strategic analysis more rigorous before final approvals are given .
24 But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese .
25 No trick , as he gleefully recounted himself was too low or devious to ensure the required result , though he might boast of being the " King of the Bristol Channel " .
26 Normally , ten or 12 trains a day servicing the Boulby Potash Mine use the bridge .
27 Prosecuting individual corporate executives , particularly where some have the dubious ‘ responsibility for going to jail ’ ( Braithwaite 1981b : 35 ) in exchange for premature elevation to a high salaried but non-responsible position , is simply missing the point .
28 ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’
29 Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree .
30 If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks .
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