Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | The second level , that of poetic or dream symbolism , is inherent in all folk-tales , traditions and motifs of regeneration . |
| 3 | This is especially so for vulnerable groups ( such as pregnant or lactating women , and children ) . |
| 4 | More complicated manipulations may require the introduction of extra instruments , such as straight or recurved solid needles , a description of which can be found elsewhere ( 27 ) . |
| 5 | There is a very wide variety of finishes available , such as gilded or silvered , and with or without a highlighting gold line , as well as the enormous range of woods themselves , which vary tremendously in colour and atmosphere , and can be inlaid with veneers or kept quite plain . |
| 6 | Pure water ( such as bottled or filtered ) is the best drink . |
| 7 | There were stories of Red Guards who shot those who dared to speak Ukrainian in public or to affirm the rights of Ukrainian nationality . |
| 8 | A group of 33 officers were charged on Feb. 18 with leading or helping to stage the attempted coup . |
| 9 | Chapter 4 considered this training cycle , noting a tendency for some libraries to regard the problems inherent in small or falling establishments as insurmountable . |
| 10 | When the arrangement of the mechanism is straightforward and the constraints imposed are only those of required or forbidden spatial position , the direct insertion approach is the easiest to apply . |
| 11 | Several authors have considered the difficulties of evaluating these parameters from thin sections of lithified sediments as opposed to those of unconsolidated or disaggregated sediments ( Rosenfeld , Jacobsen & ferm , 1953 ; Friedman , 1962 ; Klovan , 1966 ; Folk , 1966 , 1974b ) . |
| 12 | Welfare economists in particular have been concerned with actual or predicted changes in the size and nature of the ratio . |
| 13 | Government economic policy during the 1980s consistently extolled the virtues of competition and declared the superiority of private over nationalised or state regulated industries . |
| 14 | However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . |
| 15 | If the ball is available from wheeled or collapsed scrum , play can continue . |
| 16 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 17 | The burgeoning of the property-owning democracy and the flight of refugees from city life has turned boundary disputing in the country into a sport on a scale comparable with fox-hunting or skittling . |
| 18 | The fact is that elements like cran — and bil — do not carry any meaning at all , in the normal sense — they merely distinguish ; they are equivalent to numbered or lettered labels : ‘ ( berry ) type A/type B/type C … ’ . |