Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 2 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 3 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |
| 4 | Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case : |
| 5 | If things had happened differently he , Lewis , would be living in a house like this or in a flat in central London with a cottage in the country as well . |
| 6 | The questions which must be asked are : i Do specialist multi-agency dementia teams provide a model for the planning and provision of domiciliary day and respite care for all or for a proportion of the sufferers in a community ? |
| 7 | The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight . |
| 8 | None of the other Arabic sources cited refers either to a visit earlier than the one in 823 or to the presence of Mehmed Sah on this pilgrimage ; and , on the latter point , it may be significant that in the account in the Arabic sources of Molla Fenari 's departure from Egypt ( 22 Rabi " I 823/6 April 1420 ) the presence of his son-in-law , but not of his son , is mentioned . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The fees mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above shall not include fees payable under the provisions of the Betting , Gaming and Lotteries Acts 1963 to 1971 or of the Gaming Act 1968 . |
| 10 | His re-entry , however , either to mainstream or to the start of adult working life , may not be achieved so smoothly . |
| 11 | Scooter hire ( check your insurance cover ! ) and small motor boat hire are available , as well as boat trips to Anti-Paxos or around the island . |
| 12 | Here the employer chooses , by whatever method he likes , a specialist either in the specification prior to tender or in a variation order during the course of the contract . |
| 13 | And decided that these channels occur predominantly at post-synaptic or on the muscle surface . |
| 14 | They also agreed that classes are aggregates of people who are distinguishable by one or by a combination of the following : wealth , occupation , manners , standard of living , power , material possessions . |