Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 2 | Dear Resident , The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards ( CIMAH ) Regulations introduced by the UK Government in 1984 required many chemical companies with large stocks of potentially hazardous chemicals to notify local residents that such chemicals are being stored or used and what actions residents should take in the event of a serious emergency . |
| 3 | ‘ We should have had seven or eight but I think my lads ' New Year resolution is to turn my hair completely grey — we simply must find some consistency . ’ |
| 4 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 5 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
| 6 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 7 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 8 | It 's not attractive or exciting but you have to do a basic job ’ . |
| 9 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 10 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 11 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 12 | They always let you use a ‘ phone and sometimes you get a private one in a booth or similar and I 've made many Stateside calls that way . |
| 13 | ‘ There are so many more cross-border deals today , and if you can speak German or French or Japanese and you go for a job against somebody who is equally qualified but only speaks English , you will get hired . ’ |
| 14 | The Royal Commission on Legal Services described them as ‘ … indispensable in a number of ways : they provide pre-trial advice to defendants who are often confused or ignorant and who have not previously obtained it , they encourage the adequate preparation of bail applications and help to reduce the number of ill-advised pleas , whether of guilt or innocence , and the number of remands required . ’ |
| 15 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 16 | Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it . |
| 17 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 18 | ‘ I got to were I was 17 or 18 and I decided I just wanted to live my life . |
| 19 | You can use petrol , but that 's not particularly safe or healthy and it tends to leave an oily film . |
| 20 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 21 | The Magician is aimed firmly at those who are using Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and who need a faster screen redrawing speed combined with a better colour display . |
| 22 | eight or nine and I had |
| 23 | There was one girl there today , she was about fifteen or seventeen and she had to put her coat on over the top of the gown because it was |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't wish to appear ungrateful or offensive but I have a job to get back to — ’ |
| 25 | Well you know the first time I went was oh I du n no , before the war you know when I was about four or five and I went to get one out I mean my parents |
| 26 | It is not dusky or mottled and it has no results of inflammation such as no suppuration , no thick green or yellow purulent discharges and no continued fever ; |
| 27 | The person , for example , who is nervous or diffident or who has , or might have , unhappy memories of school , may initially have the courage to join a pottery or dancing class . |
| 28 | ‘ It comes in red , yellow or green and it looks like plastic . ’ |
| 29 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 30 | We sat there and had two or three or four and it got to 11 o'clock and we had a few sandwiches and things like that , and we just sat there talking . |