Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 and had narked and sparked at my comment I only had one decentish pair of black shoes for meetings and/or interviews and I have remedied that now back here using X 's advanced ( if a little critical ) birthday money .
2 If the former , then consumers have money in their bank accounts or pockets that they do not know what to do with and may therefore not mind increased taxation to pay for schools , hospitals , and the social services .
3 So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer .
4 They are not words for physical things , like objects or parts of the body , but for states or processes that we can not physically see or feel .
5 In the interest of readers who are not professional demographers , statisticians or physicians or who are not concerned with minutiae of the research , an effort was made in writing the report to avoid too detailed explanations , statistical tabulations , and the extensive use of the lingo of related fields or sciences .
6 What was under test was not my skills or abilities but my moral judgement .
7 Orcadian dialect it 's often said has no words of endearment no dears or darlings but I think perhaps came as near to it as any word .
8 The best way to do it is to get some get some coins or pebbles or something , and play , yourself
9 You wo n't tear any major muscle groups laughing during Crimes and Misdemeanours or Hannah and her Sisters , for example ; but you may marvel at a film-maker at the height of his powers .
10 And their sons or daughters or whatever still trade with us .
11 town , they , they would have a minimal allowance of vegetables or meat or whatever to sell , it was the women that did the bartering , it was the women that actually got enough money to feed the family and , and the men were really quite an
12 All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever .
13 Second , there is a tendency to opt for dreams rather than direct manifestations or visions when there is any room for doubt in the text of the Gospel .
14 So with projection we run into the future the plans or actions that we have conceived .
15 Sometimes he would interpret my involvement in discussions or groups as me being ‘ got at ’ by outside influences .
16 And they will adjust their foundations or powders until they match your skin exactly .
17 Note that LIFESPAN only checks the first three items ( Issue identifier , Product identifier/title , Client identifier/title ) and inserts missing titles or identifiers once you have entered information for all three items .
18 There 's no record of any shipments or thefts so we 're obviously dealing with a professional outfit . ’
19 There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP .
20 Erm , meetings or classes or anything like that ?
21 To leave it is to lose a family , an adopted family if you like , and many feel empty afterwards , which is one reason so many become umpires or coaches or managers or whatever .
22 In such cases the competition can usually respond by introducing similar products or services if they so wish , and where they do , the price is forced down and technical improvements are rapidly introduced to maintain leadership .
23 If you already work in retailing , base your answers on products or situations that you have to deal with .
24 These particles may be atoms , molecules or ions and their diameters are generally less than 5 nm ( that is , ) .
25 Carpet is acceptable in town houses or flats but it must be the best quality you can afford because hallways take a lot of through traffic .
26 Thus , during the late 1940s , five of every six newly-built dwellings were council houses or flats and they were allocated according to need rather than according to income .
27 Well they could buy some of these and turn these into council houses or flats or something like that .
28 I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket .
29 Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something .
30 Maybe it was the emptiness of the land that attracted them : there were no reptiles , birds or mammals so it was a comparatively safe place for them .
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