Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users of financial statements are encouraged to identify which of the disclosure requirements proposed in the FRED they consider especially useful or unnecessary and to state their reasons , and also to state any further disclosure requirements which they believe would be useful . |
| 2 | It would be interesting to note also the stresses that occur from time to time , be they physical , mental or emotional and to observe their effect on health . |
| 3 | Dostoevsky exhorted himself in his notebooks to ‘ explain the whole murder one way or another and make its character and relations clear ’ , but the artist in him would n't allow it . |
| 4 | But , whatever name you choose to give it , something gets into humans one way or another and makes them do things that are very hard to understand . |
| 5 | Cleo had never really thought about how she might spend the money , other than considering it to be insurance against the unlikely events of Wakelate either casting her off or dying and leaving her penniless . |
| 6 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 7 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 8 | They took him to their rooms and gave him a glass of vodka or slivović and teased him . |
| 9 | Then the righteous will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you , or thirsty and gave you drink , a stranger and took you home , or naked and clothed you ? |
| 10 | He always puts up with Lennie , and is there whenever Lennie is feeling ashamed or unwanted and produces his ‘ I could just go to the hills and ’ I could find a cave , and pet mice ’ speech . |
| 11 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 12 | Can you walk into your home or work-space and see it with new eyes ? |
| 13 | Then the righteous will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you , or thirsty and gave you drink , a stranger and took you home , or naked and clothed you ? |
| 14 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 15 | Freddie found this a bit intrusive or insensitive and killed him in front of the seaside spectators . |
| 16 | They scrubbed the walls , replastered where necessary and repainted them . |
| 17 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |
| 18 | Rest here a day or two and let your hurts be tended before you return to your homes . |
| 19 | That was at Newcastle , where he faded to be fourth to Mazmoor but it turned out that he had hit a hurdle or two and cut his legs badly . |
| 20 | He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them . |
| 21 | ‘ With Chet or any other people I play with , I just steal a lick or two and use it my own way . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I can drop a hint or two and put her right , otherwise Maggie will have them both ostracized if she goes round saying that girl 's a Republican . |
| 24 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 25 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 26 | Even when their attitude to chastity is positive and enriching , they are still made to feel that they are less than normal and lacking what it takes to be fully developed human beings . |
| 27 | diplomatic rather than strident and wanting her own way and doing it in a very obvious way . |
| 28 | The current debate between the honest subjectivist and the reasonable objectivist is more illusory than real and has its roots in ideological commitment rather than thoroughgoing analysis . |
| 29 | They would turn the clock back to policies that impoverished and divided our country . |
| 30 | But it was meditation that puzzled and eluded me most . |