Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 2 | In a survey carried out in the mid 1960s of 419 businesses in western Nigeria , 74 per cent said that ‘ partnerships or joint ventures were difficult or undesirable because of financial untrustworthiness ’ . |
| 3 | The difference in prevalence between men and women is greater for those aged 60 or over than for any other age group . |
| 4 | Tournaments such as Wimbledon may boast larger fields , but for some it is too costly , or inconvenient because of extensive queuing , or the possibility of play being scratched due to rain . |
| 5 | The people looked different , too more akin to the Cambodians or Siamese than to the Malays of the coast . |
| 6 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 7 | If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus . |
| 8 | If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus . |
| 9 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 10 | Construction of defences inevitably involved some small-scale demolition , seen , for example , at Chelmsford , Dorchester-on-Thames and Great Chesterford , while some internal streets may have been blocked or altered as at Mildenhall and Irchester . |
| 11 | But it is an excellent sauce in its own right , hot with a boiled chicken , beef , lamb and fish , or cold as in the present case . |
| 12 | I was told that people in that city were more concerned about being able to live safely in their homes , not having their cars stolen , and not being burgled or mugged than about unemployment or any of the other big economic issues . |
| 13 | The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in . |
| 14 | Once again , although an impression of youth united by universal licence is not given , practices and attitudes may be considered more generally advanced or permissive than among the bulk of the population — especially its older members — in Gorer 's study . |
| 15 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 16 | The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor . |
| 17 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 18 | This may be vertical as in a typical tree , or horizontal as in a trailing or rambling plant . |
| 19 | Others , less directly committed to change or worried as to how their institutions would cope with its demands , would , nevertheless , have been finding it increasingly difficult to regard school mathematics as fixed and unchangeable . [ … ] |
| 20 | Or where the subject is unknown or irrelevant as in , ‘ the book was printed in 1991 ’ or ‘ the goods were delivered on time ’ . |
| 21 | Though this problem is not as widespread or invidious as in South Africa , it still affects a significant number of children . |
| 22 | This point still requires confirmation as a general phenomenon , but there is little doubt that polymer molecules are not totally frozen or immobile when in the glassy state and that small sub units in the chain can remain mechanically and dielectrically active below T g . |
| 23 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 24 | The science may be old and well established as in mechanics , or novel as in biochemistry . |
| 25 | I 'm guessing , as I write , that in the south and east at least the summer will be as hot and dry as in the last few years , and that once again , people will have trouble getting runner beans to set . |
| 26 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 27 | Enclosure in Northamptonshire was early and extensive because of the importance of sheep and cattle to the local economy . |
| 28 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 29 | But he still feels miffed and mystified as to why manager Kevin Keegan discarded him so readily from St James ' Park and why no other Premier League clubs were willing to hire his lethal skills . |
| 30 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |