Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 2 | It was not clear from the report whether they had even applied for the available student loan or help from their college 's access fund . |
| 3 | A fourth and less myopic perspective is one which deals with the functions of a service for the wider welfare system or for society as a whole . |
| 4 | We all walk a certain amount every day of our lives , even if we are sedentary , and that is easier than starting from scratch for the first time jogging or cycling . |
| 5 | We have not attempted to include the two-dimensional angular correlation data for the APM galaxy survey or the covariance function data for radio galaxies because of uncertainty about the appropriate normalization . |
| 6 | Is n't it time you investigated the best value in today 's yachting market for the discerning cruising family or club racer . |
| 7 | But for the proverbial team leader or residential worker from Calderdale or Glasgow , the task of finding a placement abroad will be the easier for not having to seek it on their own . |
| 8 | For the up-to-minute mortgage information or if you have any enquiries about how to buy your home and require general advice , telephone Which Mortgage information service on 071 833 5566 . |
| 9 | A person who has worked for 40 years for the Scottish Transport Group or one of its subsidiaries will receive a maximum pension of , as I have said , two thirds of pensionable salary . |
| 10 | A textbook for the development of oral skills in English for the foreign business professional or student which can be adapted for use with various class sizes , student needs and interests , language levels and time constraints . |
| 11 | Built in the style of the Regency period , convenient for the National Exhibition Centre or visiting the Stratford and Warwick area . |
| 12 | At 6 Frith Street , in the middle of Soho , Hazlitt 's is a haven for the saturated culture vulture or worn-out shopper . |
| 13 | Dismissals are now explained as an inevitable response to pressures beyond managerial control be they the result of higher taxes to pay for the public finance deficit or the need to introduce even greater levels of mechanization to meet world competition . |
| 14 | The documents suggest that the radioactive waste was dumped during the Second World War or Korean War , from the Army 's Niagara Falls plant or nearby private plants operating under government contract . |
| 15 | These may be " laid in " by the designer himself , and evoked during the initial concept stage or during the component verification or inspection stage . |
| 16 | Some of these died in captivity while being brought to the coast from the African homeland , and even more lost their lives in the brutal conditions on board the slave ships during the notorious Atlantic crossing or ‘ Middle Passage ’ . |
| 17 | This especially applies to the large pointed snail known as the greater pond snail or freshwater whelk . |
| 18 | These people have been described as being typically highly active , personified in individuals such as the successful business man or the British Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 19 | Although the original intention was that this would be an intermediate language between two established languages ( for example , German natural language — switching language -French natural language ) , the product of the work has been a new general classification scheme known as the Standard Reference Code or the Broad System of Ordering ( BSO ) . |
| 20 | They consist usually of a ratio between the length of the coast and some other feature , such as the total land area or a line tangent to the headlands of the coast . |
| 21 | It could and did reject , revise and remake legislation on the floor of the House ( such as the 1858 India Act or the 1867 Reform Act ) . |
| 22 | The heart of this new technology is , of course , a small chip of silicon , measuring less than 10 mm. square , containing extremely complex electronic circuitry which can be used either as the central processing unit or the memory of a computer . |
| 23 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 24 | When the amount is one mole ( see chapter 4 ) the constant is designated R. It is known as the molar gas constant or simply the gas constant . |
| 25 | This is also known as the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle . |
| 26 | Certainly the taste for parody has n't deserted him ( witness the piano pieces in homage to Scarlatti , Medtner , Alkan , late Liszt et al ) ; nor has his taste for rum titles ( such as the choral work Oil or petrol Marks on a Wet Road are Sometimes held to be Spots where a Rainbow Stood ) . |
| 27 | As in BR , there are fairly close , although informal , links between the local union branch or ‘ section ’ , and the work centre committee . |
| 28 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 29 | He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports . |
| 30 | Local tennis clubs can be found through the International Tennis Federation or the Lawn Tennis Association . |