Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 2 | They will help you not to feel isolated or depressed while you are ill and away from home . |
| 3 | Cos I 'm in bed right , cos sometimes I go , in the week it depends how I feel like , tonight I 'll probably go to bed about about half-ten or eleven cos I 'm gon na watch Ruby Wax and sometimes |
| 4 | Perhaps — though I hardly dare pen the thought — perhaps , perhaps I am beginning to glimpse or sense out of this pain and this cold and this exhaustion and this fear and this hunger the presence or the comfort of some other thing , some other force more powerful or resilient than my own weakening frame . |
| 5 | Other species from one particular microhabitat in the region may be over-represented in the predator assemblage if it is a favoured hunting area or under-represented if it is not ( see Append . |
| 6 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 7 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 8 | She said appropriate things in the right places , and hardly knew whether she was glad or sorry when it was time to go . |
| 9 | Or sorry because it embarrasses you to be with me because of it ? ’ |
| 10 | Or sprechen as they say in Norway |
| 11 | This is then forgotten or repressed when it seems to have vanished altogether and there 's a third period , what Freud calls the return of the repressed when the initial trauma comes back in the form of symptoms and er ideally in the form of an analysis that finally brings it to the surface of consciousness and dissolves it , and this is a typical pattern . |
| 12 | Nellie was not a bit shy or timid like I was , and I was attracted by her outspoken ways . |
| 13 | But , sitting in the wood-panelled living-room of the Birdman 's house on the little island of Mykines , listening to his tales of the sea and of the exploits of the Faroese fowlers of old , I could think of no reason why he should be considered any more hard or cruel than anyone who has ever eaten a chicken joint , a hamburger — or even a fish-finger ! |
| 14 | People do n't usually get taller or shorter when they eat cake . |
| 15 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 16 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 17 | The defendant had raped and molested both girls from the time they were 11 or 12 until they were in their late teens . |
| 18 | Although he 's only seventeen Chris is committed to art in one form or another as something he intends to stick with for life . |
| 19 | If a guitar is substantially heavier or lighter than you 'd expect , of course we 'll say so , but how many people even know the weight of their own guitars ; I do n't , and I bet you do n't either . |
| 20 | Food American Style — or British if you prefer — is available at dozens of restaurants and kiosks all over the Park . |
| 21 | Dipak ( S ) : How did you know whether the planes were English or German when you were in the air-raid shelter ? |
| 22 | As a result , although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom , it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared ; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons . |
| 23 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 24 | Wagstaff argues that the hypnotist , like a counsellor , helps motivate people to try to remember by reassuring them that they will not be made to feel upset , guilty , or embarrassed if they describe what they have seen . |
| 25 | Not that Susanna Cellini — or Belford-Cellini as she apparently preferred to be known — would be impressed , but neither could she be disparaging . |
| 26 | He exhorted Gina not to use too much heat or light while he was away . |
| 27 | Later , in about the 1850's John Wilson set up at Burnside to manufacture rugs , weaving Scotch Carpets ( or Ingrain as they are also called ) on hand looms . |
| 28 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 29 | Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time . |
| 30 | During your turn you can be as bitchy , whiny or self-righteous as you like — but when time 's up , that 's it . |