Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 Intravenous magnesium and temporary atrial or ventricular pacing are initial choices of therapy .
2 However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed .
3 In several countries local ‘ curriculum implementers ’ of one species or another have been appointed and in the main they have proved to be conscientious and down-to-earth professionals who do an exceptionally useful job .
4 ( 1 ) that there should be fair distribution between geographical areas , so that , in any year , where possible one school should be included from each of the eight ( now six ) educational administrative areas ( 2 ) that in any year , project schools should comprise a mix of schools in terms of the degree to which educational initiatives of one sort or another have been taken , the socioeconomic environment , philosophies of grouping , pedagogy etc .
5 There are people who know probably more than me and for one reason or another have been afraid to stand up and be counted , ’ he said .
6 Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there .
7 But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries .
8 The question nobody seems able or willing to answer is when the ground attack may come .
9 But what no one seemed prepared or able to tell was to what extent the purity of breed influences the taste of boar .
10 Thus two of the individual contributions which tile children were asked to make or able to make were put in this way :
11 Possible underascertainment has been carefully analysed , and a questionnaire was sent to parents , or those affected were invited with their families for a personal examination to check the diagnoses and to obtain necessary data .
12 Small parties are quite often noted and gatherings of 50 or more have been seen ; the largest in recent years was of 200 off Pett Level on 7 February 1965 .
13 The reasons for our absence over the last month or more have been well documented in the local gutter press , and through the many acrimonious exchanges between club and supporters .
14 Obviously where an agency contractual or ostensible has been created and the agent behaves improperly , whether by exercising undue influence upon or by making false representations to the surety , then the creditor will be held vicariously responsible for and affected by the acts of the agent committed in the execution of the agency .
15 Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility .
16 But when the country went to bed that night , precisely nothing different , or exciting , or decisive had been said or done .
17 Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film .
18 Point mutations in codons 12 , 13 , or 61 have been identified in 39 to 71% of large bowel cancers , as well as 42% of adenomas .
19 We have had 23 this year , of which 13 or 14 have been works Bills .
20 Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round .
21 Another interesting development of the last year or two has been the introduction of courses in art and design , leading to the CNAA BA , by a few of the former colleges of education with large art , design and craft resources , which are now part of colleges of higher education .
22 A cannon or two have been placed around a modern Scandinavian-type house , more for ornament than effectiveness .
23 Father Pat Buckley , from Larne in Northern Ireland , has been to Scotland on three occasions to tie the knot for couples whom the church refuses to marry because one or both have been divorced .
24 Moreover , subsidence in the Upper Cretaceous and/or Cainozoic has been relatively shallow , and no additional geothermal heating occurred in recent times .
25 In its style , the work recalls some of Prowse 's Jacobean productions , and when at the end a backcloth spattered with blood covers the wall and the line from Marlowe , about Christ 's blood streaming in the firmament , is spoken , Wilde 's belief that a work of art could be neither moral nor immoral has been overturned .
26 It is somewhat ironical that this position was carefully constructed by earlier Republican presidents and that CITES was primarily the brainchild of the Nixon administration .
27 And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight .
28 In the past I have had to carry all my stuff with me and that has been a drag .
29 There has been one miracle already and that has been the hand put back on . ’
30 A fighter has to have power behind him or nothing will ever happen and that has been my trouble , ’ admits Boucher .
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