Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be quite a useful preparation for a nervous or beginner skier as it relates the feeling of skiing to everyday activities , eg riding a bicycle and driving a car . |
| 2 | The crucial point is therefore the ambit of the preliminary or collateral question . |
| 3 | Secondary double-glazing involves the fitting of a wooden or plastic frame a few inches inside your existing window and slotting in sliding panes of glass or non-glass . |
| 4 | Watch for stains ( blood from a sore or wound ) or strong smelling urine . |
| 5 | Also , a pre-contract discussion can be arranged with the MBA on an individual or band basis . |
| 6 | The design depends on the particular stitch on the left or right of the pattern being transferred in the intended direction . |
| 7 | If it 's an odd number of repeats , then when the N1 cam is in the centre you 'll get half a repeat at each edge , but if you move the N1 cam half a pattern repeat to the left or right of centre , then again you 'll get a complete pattern repeat at the edge . |
| 8 | If you store incredibly important and confidential data on a portable or laptop computer , you 'll want a heavy-duty security system — especially if you 're prone to leaving your car boot open with the machine inside . |
| 9 | Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization . |
| 10 | Michael wonders if he would ever gain sufficient skills in photography or desk top publishing to form part of a cooperative or enterprise . |
| 11 | Predators form the top part of the ecological or office pyramid . |
| 12 | This effort supplements an existing boxing programme which aims to give items entering storage the protection of a binding or box . |
| 13 | A final method of obtaining publicity , and one of the most costly , is by donating substantial sums of money towards an academic or research institution . |
| 14 | So if we add an example using the N tuple technique of the exclusive or problem for example er like that we want to see how the network would solve that okay in terms of a single layer network . |
| 15 | This may be a specialist unit trust company or it may be part of some other large financial grouping , a subsidiary of a retail or merchant bank for example . |
| 16 | Their breach may , after all , lead to the imposition of a fine or imprisonment , the purpose of which is , in the circumstances , plainly punitive , rather than remedial . |
| 17 | The law also featured legal guarantees of privacy for individuals , and defined the procedures for redress in cases of slander or libel of an individual or organization . |
| 18 | Clearing away all the leaves under a hedge is bad news for hedgehogs , as is smartening up the accumulated debris behind a toolshed or summerhouse . |
| 19 | Similar articles with a built-in or market value apart from workmanship . |
| 20 | If syphilis is suspected , a ‘ dark-ground ’ or ‘ dark-field ’ examination may be performed on serum from a sore or rash . |
| 21 | MOST microeconomic models of the trade union have focused on wage and employment determination within a closed or union shop framework . |
| 22 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 23 | Through this process of the return to the mean or average , the superbly intelligent , highly motivated race remains an illusion . |
| 24 | Selecting the ‘ Ultra-Low ’ facility releases a forceful bass sound , designed to be at its most effective when using the low E and B on a 5 or 6-string . |
| 25 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 26 | When either the supply or the demand curve for a good or service is very inelastic , the imposition of a tax will lead only to a small change in quantity . |
| 27 | Rebuilding is necessary because folding sometimes groups too many symbols together as alternatives for a single OR symbol . |
| 28 | There are various other ways in which both magistrates and judges may contribute , either directly or indirectly , to the prison numbers crisis — for example , by imposing a fine without taking sufficient account of a defendant 's ability to pay , with the result that imprisonment is imposed for default ( see Moxon , 1993 ) ; or by imposing a suspended sentence in place of a fine or probation with the result that , in the event of a further offence , imprisonment is more likely to be imposed than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 29 | To undertake more redistribution the government will have to increase tax rates , thereby driving a larger wedge between the price paid by the purchaser and the price received by the seller of the good or service . |
| 30 | Teachers ' expectations , stereotyping and labelling are seen as the mechanisms by means of which membership of an ethnic or gender group results in ethnic or sex disparities in achievements or in particular types of classroom behaviour . |