Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , structural limitation ‘ constitutes a pattern of determination in which some social structure establishes limits within which some other structure or process can vary , and establishes probabilities for the specific structures or processes that are possible within those limits ’ . |
| 2 | The parties should consider Article 85 in transactions where either of the parties involved belongs to a corporate group with a turnover in excess of approximately £150 million or the vendor and the purchaser together enjoy 5 per cent or more of the total market for the relevant goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and one of the parties , normally the vendor , is accepting restrictive covenants . |
| 3 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 4 | Try to ignore the clutter and detail , and look for the central themes or metaphors . |
| 5 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 6 | Save for the clandestine tracts or news-sheets of the Resistance or Underground , newspapers were rigorously controlled — by the German occupying forces in Paris and the north , and by Petain 's Vichy governments in the south . |
| 7 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 8 | Inputs and outputs should be at the same level of abstraction ; in other words conversion of an abstract notion ( such as customers needs ) to a tangible form ( such as the specific goods or services that are supplied ) is not supportable in a root definition . |
| 9 | This may be organized and justified in various terms : as a group of cognate or faculty disciplines such as the social sciences or humanities ; as a number of disciplines brought to bear on a common area ( European Studies , Middle Eastern Studies ) or period ( Classics , The Enlightenment , Modern Studies ) or problem or theme ( Development Studies , Urban Studies ) ; as a sampling of some or all of the main types of human knowledge , as provided by the foundation year at Keele University ; or as a deliberate contrast between different types of knowledge ( arts-science schemes ) . |
| 10 | But the contest between the two rulers or super-powers was of much deeper significance , amounting to a total re-assessment of Christian society and its government . |
| 11 | Be that as it may , we should perhaps pay more attention to the context rather than the content of the distinction , and the relationship between the two environments or worlds : the department and the firm , the laboratory and the field , the lecture-room and the ward . |
| 12 | This , then , makes for serious definitional and methodological problems in identifying and pursuing Goody 's distinction between the two kinds or levels of thought . |
| 13 | It is not easy to generalize , because the substantial differences between the various professions or semi-professions translate into differences in professional education . |
| 14 | In each case they run between the intersegmental folds or antecostae of successive segments . |
| 15 | The organization chart below illustrates the principal divisions of labour within the function and provides an example of the structural relationships between the different departments or sub-units . |
| 16 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 17 | Indeed through the second method ( but not the first ) we might come to some decision about the responsibilities of the group or institution while still in doubt ( or disagreeing among ourselves ) about the consequent liabilities or responsibilities of the relevant individuals . |
| 18 | The model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) inputs : information inputs about the alternative products or services available to the interested individual/ potential customer will include the facts about those products ( brands available , product specification , quality , price etc ) . |
| 19 | This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected . |
| 20 | The egg from the ovary is the woman and the sperm from the testicles in the man continue to be produced but as their pathway through the fallopian tubes or vas deferens is blocked after the operation , they are removed by normal body process . |
| 21 | It is accepted by functionalists that if any computers , or indeed any artifacts or entities whatever , can be said to pass through the requisite states or processes , they must therefore be conscious . |
| 22 | After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow . |
| 23 | The essential involvement of an issuing authority gives the choice of the designs placed on coins a relevance to our understanding of the political aspirations or concerns of that authority , and this , together with the great wealth of illustration provided by such designs , will be discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 24 | The creation of a National Commission for the Consolidation of Peace ( COPAZ ) , made up of one representative from each of the political parties or coalitions in the Legislative Assembly , and two each from the government , armed forces and FMLN , charged with the task of supervising the implementation of all future accords , including ceasefires and changes in the armed forces ; its work to be supervised byrepresentatives from the Roman Catholic Church and the UN Observers for El Salvador ( Onusal ) . |
| 25 | In short , it is sociology 's comparative perspective , its cross-cultural vision , that provides its strongest refutation of the naturalistic explanations or accounts outlined above . |
| 26 | Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquillisers . |
| 27 | On the one hand , he rejects the idea that we can attain knowledge in the form of demonstrative understanding that certain things must be so , an understanding based on knowledge of the real natures or essences of things . |
| 28 | He partly supported this belief by the fact that of the 3,700 books or articles listed in the two-volume Criminology Index ( Wolfgang , Figlio , and Thornberry 1975 ) which reviews theoretical and empirical work in criminology from 1945 to 1972 , there were only ninety-two , or about 2.5 per cent , dealing with white-collar or corporate crime . |
| 29 | It may consist in a rejection of the specific schemes or lines of evolution propounded by nineteenth-century authors . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Except with the consent of the Panel , the offer document must describe how the offer is to be financed , the source of that finance , the names of the principal lenders or arrangers of the finance and , if the financing or any security for it will depend to any significant extent on the business of the target , the arrangements concerned ( or a negative statement ) ( Rule 24.2(d) — see para 11.3.5.7 below ) . |