Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained . |
| 2 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 3 | Similarly , if women 's role as workers is emphasised to the detriment of consideration of their role as housewives and — more particularly — their role as mothers , then the ‘ proletarianisation ’ of women could confine them and their children to dependence on means-tested state benefits and/or low pay from part-time ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 4 | Indemnity in respect of legal liability for accidental injury to Third Parties and/or accidental damage to their property . |
| 5 | These proteins are usually bound to the plasma membrane by myristylation and/or direct attachment to membrane proteins . |
| 6 | The outcomes of working in such ‘ teams ’ will include : poor communication and/or high level of conflict , limited or conditional commitment , poor quality decision making with limited innovation , inhibited implementation , confused objectives and poor motivation compromising performance . |
| 7 | Therefore , you have to decide the quickest and/or cheapest way of attending the interview . |
| 8 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 9 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 10 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 11 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 12 | Another way in which a patient may seek to achieve control over his fate once he has become incompetent is through the device of an Enduring or Durable Power of Attorney . |
| 13 | However , there is no empirical evidence to suggest that exchange rate changes have a systematic or durable impact on productivity growth rates . |
| 14 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 15 | The strategy consisted not of ministerial diktat but the progressive application of pressure on LEAs to ensure that the school curriculum in their areas was in line with a real or imagined consensus about what pupils should learn at school . |
| 16 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 17 | As I was no longer going out to work , I had plenty of thinking time … even a holiday with , , & that Autumn to U.S.A / Bahamas ( retirement treat ) was blighted . |
| 18 | On the one hand , Duna is said to be thinking about buying the rights to a publish a Hungarian or European version of an unnamed US Unix programmers title , with current circulation of 7,000 . |
| 19 | It needs an 80386 or 80486 CPU with preferably 8Mb to run under Windows 3.1. but can be run as a 16-bit MS-DOS application in 640Kb . |
| 20 | To obtain the cupped or hemispherical shape with fairly smooth lines , the number of gores should be increased with the diameter . |
| 21 | It 's also important to note how important the affective , as opposed to merely informational or propositional component of conversation is . |
| 22 | It was either recovery or recession , modernising the health service or commercialising it , investing in all children or preserving opportunity for a few , said Mr Kinnock . |
| 23 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 24 | Therefore the signal extraction problem will yield different solutions depending upon the economic environment : economies with highly volatile aggregate demand movements will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a high proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock ; economies with highly stable aggregate demand will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a low proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock . |
| 25 | Therefore the signal extraction problem will yield different solutions depending upon the economic environment : economies with highly volatile aggregate demand movements will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a high proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock ; economies with highly stable aggregate demand will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a low proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock . |
| 26 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 27 | whether the leader has a high or low level of authority and |
| 28 | The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them . |
| 29 | We have seen how entries in the internal lexicon can be more easily or less easily accessed according to whether they correspond to words which have a high or low frequency of occurrence in language . |
| 30 | Now pitch is to do with er technically to do with the frequency is n't it the the high or low pitch like on a piano from high notes to low notes ? |