Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 2 | They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road . |
| 3 | Others made comments about the listed methods or provided more details . |
| 4 | When the others saw her heading for home after the latest sports or debating session they would say " Look out . |
| 5 | On the other side , however , we need to consider how such ideas in turn affect political life ; how the analyses and interpretations provided by political scientists enter into the struggles between different interest groups , and either help to define more clearly the nature of the conflicting interests or claim to discover ways of reconciling them . |
| 6 | What effects , is any , do rapid changes in technology have on the appropriateness of each of the alternative ways Or putting a cost or a value to an item . |
| 7 | Cogelow gouges do n't conform to any of the standard shapes or numbering systems . |
| 8 | The system should assume that the top-rated candidates are correct unless the user chooses another of the existing candidates or enters an alternative word . |
| 9 | So public and congressional interest was low and this in turn kept budgets tight , preventing the building of the new facilities or running the new experiments such as the dt one at Princeton that could produce the breakthrough . |
| 10 | Other initiatives , such as skill-sharing and studio-sharing , forming a group or association , or joining an arts guild , can help reduce some of the financial overheads or create cheaper and often better ways of exhibiting work . |
| 11 | Registration of events would also allow local authorities to refuse the use of the unsuitable sites or prevent the abuse of the current laws which allow boot sales on each site for a maximum of fourteen days per year . |
| 12 | In many Endopterygote larvae , however , the gula is bounded by variously formed ecdysial lines along which the ventral side of the head-capsule bends or splits when the insect moults ( Hinton , 1963 ) . |
| 13 | If you have time , pay a visit to Rossano which boasts an exquisite byzantine church straight out of the Arabian Nights or drive south towards Tropea a pretty fishing town with superb , golden beaches . |
| 14 | Nowadays the keen water gardener has become far more selective when purchasing waterlilies , either trying to obtain some of the rarer varieties or experimenting with some of the more recent introductions of nymphaea , especially some of the outstanding new varieties that have been produced in America . |
| 15 | If so are you going to use one of the commercial companies or do it through the government-backed Export Credits Guarantee Department ? |
| 16 | Returning to Madeira , we find that the island is catering for the demands of a new breed of tourists who wish for a more active holiday than the traditional visitor who relaxed in the comfort of the luxury hotels or lazed around the swimming pool or at the lido . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 18 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 19 | Afterwards I have a rest for a few days or go swimming ’ |
| 20 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 21 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 22 | However , since Rosemary was never allowed to mix with the other children or attend any function after school , no one had ever got to know her really well . |
| 23 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 24 | If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend . |
| 25 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 26 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 27 | And for those who prefer more leisurely pursuits you can picnic , sunbathe , ride a cable car into the surrounding peaks or take a ride on one of the oldest cog railways in the world . |
| 28 | By the thirteenth century archdeacons acted as lieutenants of the bishops within the separate dioceses or sees . |
| 29 | Orcs take refuge in the deep forests or travel north into the Troll Country . |
| 30 | I guess they must have used all the NATO calibre ammo by now and have replenished with 5.56 mm weapons , either supplied by deserters in the Danuese battalions or captured . |