Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commonest problem with central heating pumps is jamming , either after a period when the pump has not been used , or due to sludge in the system clogging the impeller . |
| 2 | Amphoteric detergents : ionise in solution with the active ion being either cationic or anionic according to the pH of the solution . |
| 3 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 4 | Polyester or down-filled sleeping bags will be washed or dry cleaned before being given a special waterproofing treatment with Nikwax TX10i . |
| 5 | Down bags should be washed with special products , or dry cleaned by a specialist cleaner . |
| 6 | Here it was always twilight , the corridors lit or unlit according to whether or not the local gang bosses had made deals with those Above who controlled the basic facilities like lighting , sanitation and water . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the realisation of this knowledge has been difficult or impractical owing to several well known factors including ‘ closed ’ systems , immature software standards , and high development or re-development costs . |
| 8 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 9 | Whether this interference is constructive or destructive depends on the optical path difference , and so the pattern of bright and dark bands reflects the pattern of constant density surfaces ( in a two-dimensional flow configuration ) . |
| 10 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 11 | These figures could be ten times higher or lower depending on the circumstances . |
| 12 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 13 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 14 | The fact that activities can be shifted from the public to the private sector ( and vice-versa ) suggests that the classification of functions or institutions as public or private according to their intrinsic nature is not the way to decide the scope of public law . |
| 15 | Stimuli of this sort may still evoke an OR that habituates during pre-exposure but there is no reason to suppose that the loss of the overt components of this response will prevent the subjects from seeing or hearing the stimulus . |
| 16 | The chief dangers are that some flaw in the title will be overlooked , or that requisitions on title will not be delivered within the stipulated time ( now six working days after delivery of abstract ) , so that a seller 's conveyancer might plead this breach of the conditions of sale as an excuse for not clearing up a genuine difficulty . |
| 17 | There was no sign of either Bonnington 's group or that led by McGonigal . |
| 18 | The school day should be extended for older pupils , with many activities currently classed as voluntary or extra-curricular brought within the normal working framework of the school timetable . |
| 19 | Now that the Penguin Islands represent a new DXCC country , Dxpeditioners will not find it particularly easy or pleasant to operate from them . |
| 20 | This wording , and the relevant wording in the preamble , means that the burden of proof is shifted onto the trader , businessman or professional relying on a clause falling within the Annex to prove that it is not unfair . |
| 21 | He was n't expected by her or Victorine to reply to them , Léonie saw . |
| 22 | These reports sent them bustling off to organize air tickets to the head of the Gulf , designating it Persian or Arabian according to the nationality of the airline or the destination selected , to check out the situation and track down flesh with which to clothe the bare bones . |
| 23 | Their houses , no more than huts , were scattered along the sunken tracks or half hidden in woods , or else perched on the slopes of the low hills . |
| 24 | Their winter homes were log cabins , either free-standing or half sunk in the earth and covered with turf . |
| 25 | Ceramic tiles-which can be continued up the space between counter top and unit to make a handsome splashback-come in a huge range of colours and designs and can look spectacular , gentle or fresh depending on the effect you want . |
| 26 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 27 | Money raised will be used to enable women who are low-waged or unemployed to go on the Delegation ( which is in March ) . |
| 28 | Here , the aim of assessment is simply to identify whether or not the child 's language is unusual or atypical compared with that of other children of a similar age or in respect of other aspects of development . |
| 29 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 30 | The term does not cover only threats of violence but anything detrimental or unpleasant according to Lord Wright in the civil case of Thorne v MTA [ 1937 ] AC 797 . |