Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has after all become a commonplace that the creative imagination of the philosopher , mathematician or scientist is not much different from that of a prophet or poet ; what distinguishes him is how he treats his findings in retrospect . |
| 2 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
| 3 | Once policies are on the statute books , there is reluctance to change them , or change is very slow and largely through non-statutory guidance . |
| 4 | This is why the responsibility of ( say ) looking after a small brother or sister is so valuable in enhancing the social awareness and maturity of the older boy or girl who is doing the substitute parenting . |
| 5 | A visual check of the general condition of the water or effluent is normally made when a sample is taken , and other inspections are often made without sampling . |
| 6 | Well , usually with this sort of , with the replicability , or reliability is pretty low . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're continually on the move , what time or opportunity is there for interaction at any but the most superficial level ? ’ |
| 8 | The appearance on Aspel & Co is mysteriously cancelled . |
| 9 | Such a personal dialect or variety is usually termed an idiolect . |
| 10 | The important role of Helicobacter pylori in idiopathic duodenal ulcer disease has been widely acknowledged since the clear demonstration that ulcer relapse or remission is strongly associated with H pylori colonisation or absence from the gastric mucose . |
| 11 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 12 | The law now explicitly states that the study of any such catechism or formulary is not prohibited . |
| 13 | The fact that these benefits are achieved by differences in engine size , suspension design or paintwork is really of secondary interest . |
| 14 | But if the situation Benjamin describes is too open , its constitutive relationships too direct and insufficiently mediated , Adorno 's net , by contrast , is so tightly drawn , its equations so perfect , its circle so complete , that any change , critique or differentiation of meaning or response is all but impossible . |
| 15 | An eighteen or nineteen-year-old is usually much more mature than a fourteen or fifteen-year-old , and may even be contemplating marriage by this time . |
| 16 | If a particular type or category is especially popular in one country , it will tend to be slightly more expensive there than elsewhere . |
| 17 | The process or the how-to-do is , in the final analysis , no substitute for what-to-do ; simple minded glorification of method or technique is usually a cover-up for an academic procedure . |
| 18 | if pilferage or damage is not notified in writing within a specified number of days of delivery , and a claim made in writing within a further specified number of days of delivery . |
| 19 | But the worship of the college or course is obviously very influential . |
| 20 | Our man of property may be an author or a patentee , and we shall hardly be able to say that his copyright or patentright is not part of his property , or even to avoid speaking of his ownership of the copyright or patent . |
| 21 | The spittle-bug or frog-hopper is equally as soft as an aphid , but three or four times the size . |
| 22 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 23 | Or shite is also another one |
| 24 | A written reply last week confirmed that the average waiting time between the making of an application and the first visit or inspection is about nine weeks . |
| 25 | Although the physical act of taking a drink or drug is technically self-induced , the spiritual disease that leads to this compulsion is a disease that has clearly identifiable characteristics and outcomes , that runs in families and may even be genetically inherited ( this does not mean that if your parents have addictive disease then you will necessarily also have addictive disease , but it does mean that there is a higher chance of your having it ) and therefore the existence of the disease may be totally beyond the control of the sufferer . |
| 26 | In order to do this you need to consider whether a particular department , section or function is directly concerned with the main operational function of the College . |
| 27 | If this cleaving or oneness is actually to occur , it must be activated by a commitment to intimacy , not just physical intimacy but spiritual and psychological intimacy as well . |
| 28 | Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period . |
| 29 | When this happens , the rightness of the belief or value or action is not infrequently forgotten altogether and ignored . |
| 30 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |