Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many men are as tall as or taller than their fathers and Stephen was six feet , but Dadda still towered above him . |
| 4 | WHAT COULD be more important or intriguing than our own origins ? |
| 5 | Four of them areas large as or larger than our moon . |
| 6 | While nowhere near as impressive or effective as their earlier work , this is certainly nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 7 | To jump out of the way a model must roll equal to or less than its initiative value on a D6 . |
| 8 | If your income is the same as or less than your applicable amount , you will receive maximum community charge benefit of 80% . |
| 9 | Evidence for 1989 found that just 7% of married women earned the same as or more than their husbands ( Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective OPCS/HMSO 1984 ) . |
| 10 | The greatest amount normally permitted is one-and-a-half times your average final salary up to a ceiling of £1 12,500 ( or higher if your pension plan pre-dates the 1989 Budget ) . |
| 11 | Start your holiday with a factor 10 or 15 and , over a two-week period , gradually decrease to factor 6 or 8 as your tan develops . |
| 12 | Only a widower who was retired or chronically sick or disabled when his wife died can use his former wife 's contribution record . |
| 13 | Already , for example , birds of prey which are saved from accidental poisoning by pesticides are being deliberately shot , trapped or poisoned as their numbers increase once more . |
| 14 | Have you ever dreamed of a unique perfume created especially for you ; your own custom-made scent , as fresh , floral or exotic as your mood ? |
| 15 | It could well be argued that both " Balak " and " Aram " in line A are more specific or precise than their counterparts in line B , " the king of Moab " and " the Eastern Hills " , because they use proper names for identification . |
| 16 | In class warfare , for instance , oppressed people easily find themselves claiming to be just as noble or gentlemanly as their supposed betters , without properly criticising existing ideas of nobility or gentility . |
| 17 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 18 | Some of us even manage a blowjob or two while our gigs are in progress . |
| 19 | The Argyle fans chose the Newport Road pub after enjoying a pint or two before their team played Middlesbrough last January . |
| 20 | And even then she managed to land one blow on the side of his head , to get her teeth , albeit briefly and not very deep , into his shoulder , to kick him a time or two although her bare feet fell short , each time , of a vital spot . |
| 21 | Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time . |
| 22 | His trunks , largely buried between the rolls of his stomach and thighs , were red-purple , a colour neither heavier nor lighter than his achieved flesh colour , which jangled the eye . |
| 23 | For here was an ordinary average crowd of Air Force youngsters , neither better nor worse than their compatriots in squadrons all over the world . |
| 24 | Leaping around the stage like a hyperactive elf , his relationship with the audience is notably more relaxed and chatty than his most caustic and hectoring period . |
| 25 | Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well . |
| 26 | The girl was trying to fight him off , was kicking his shins vigorously , trying to hold her face away from his , and was giving vent to muffled shouts , which were , of necessity , growing feebler and feebler as her strength ran out . |
| 27 | There is another reason for retaining a younger image at forty and fifty than our mothers or grandmothers did . |
| 28 | And for the thousands of chatline users who will be left high and dry when their service shuts down in April , Dr Derek Milne predicts a further search for support . |
| 29 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 30 | But even as the idea occurred to her , she dismissed it ; from the athletic way Fernand had cleared the rail it was likely that his legs were as strong and muscular as his sinewy arms and he would probably catch her long before she reached the house . |