Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 2 | The clause read : In the event of the determination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever [ Harris ] shall not at any time within 12 months after such determination : ( i ) enter into a Contract of Service or other Agreement of a like nature with GUS Ltd or any company subsidiary thereto or be directly or indirectly engaged concerned or interested in the trading or business of the said GUS Ltd or any such company aforesaid … |
| 3 | This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties . |
| 4 | Jespersen ( 1940 : 157 ) sets the problem in more general terms : To is used with an infinitive in the first place where the usual meaning of the preposition is distinctly felt : he went to fetch his hat / he was led ( inclined ) to believe — or is more or less vaguely present : ready to believe/anxious to believe . |
| 5 | A child is disabled if he is blind , deaf or dumb or suffers from mental disorder of any kind or is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness , injury or congenital deformity ( s17(11) ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , the evaluation of reasonableness will normally be for the trial judge : an appellate court will rarely interfere unless satisfied that the original decision " proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong " ( Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , per Lord Bridge ) . |
| 7 | Accordingly , a first instance decision will only be reversed on appeal if it proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong . |
| 8 | In simplified form , their model consists of the following three equations : where is the rate of growth of the money stock in country , is a variable , the value of which is known at the end of the previous period and which influences monetary growth ; α i and β i are coefficients for country i ; and are normally and independently distributed random errors , with zero means and variances and respectively ; and is a constant . |
| 9 | The modern apartments consist of one bedroom which sleep 2–3 or 4 and are comfortably and attractively furnished , with private facilities . |
| 10 | The studios are for two persons and are simply but pleasantly furnished . |
| 11 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 12 | He observed that the tumours of the prostate which arise spontaneously in aged dogs and are sometimes but not usually cancerous , got smaller after the dogs were castrated . |
| 13 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 14 | Casein joints set hard in a day or two and are more or less waterproof . |
| 15 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 16 | They know their son , and are more or less resigned to his caprices , but they know his consistencies , too . |
| 17 | I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that . |
| 18 | If the Carrier agrees to accept Dangerous Goods for carriage such goods must be accompanied by a full declaration of their nature and contents and be properly and safely packed and labelled in accordance with any statutory regulations for the time being in force for carriage by road . |
| 19 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 20 | She was not one for showing off , she just liked to do the washing up and be there and look after everybody . |
| 21 | The voluntary schools continued to charge higher fees and were socially and intellectually selective in their intake . |
| 22 | Plenty failed and were quietly or noisily dropped . |
| 23 | The newspapers described what went on , particularly the annual Presidential Addresses , which generally called for more scientific education , and were fully and widely reported . |
| 24 | But I need n't have worried ; they were trivial things and were efficiently and painlessly dealt with by RAF dentists very different from The Butcher . |
| 25 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |
| 26 | The cutting edge is also rounded and is reasonably but not dangerously sharp . |
| 27 | The truth must be that the Created God is not human or living as earth-s creatures are , but is without sex , exists only in the minds of man , and is undeniably and truly abstract . |
| 28 | Brown says NT exhibits a superior memory management scheme and is almost but not quite the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 29 | I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me . |
| 30 | He was looking a prime candidate for another maiden fifty when Abington , his last-wicket partner , like Johnson before him , strolled down the pitch and was well and truly Pottered . |