Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 FREE Air Miles with every 25 litres of Shell Advanced Fuels or with every litre of Shell Oil . |
| 2 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 3 | Now in drama an excessive degree of vested interest in either the technical aspects or in the substance of the subject-matter can upset the balance so that the ‘ game ’ of drama and the necessary spontaneity that goes with it disappear . |
| 4 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 5 | This can be doing running down actions for existing private clients or as an adjunct to one of their other areas of litigation . |
| 6 | The notices give general information on particular aspects of the tax , while leaflets provide more specialised guidance for specific trades or on the liability of certain supplies . |
| 7 | In the absence of other acceptable proposals or of the will on the part of government to override opposition to such proposals as existed , shortage of revenue remained an obstacle to central government action and was acutely worsened by the high cost of the Boer War which opened in 1899 . |
| 8 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 9 | Health is another , whether in the form of workplace hazards that pose broader dangers or in the form of struggles to defend the health service . |
| 10 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 11 | Courses may also be advertised in local jobcentres and public libraries or on the display boards of local employment agencies . |
| 12 | The work of the committees of the council is always the subject of report to the council in some form , either as a report of what the committee has done under delegated powers or by the submission for the approval of the council of the recommendations of the committee . |
| 13 | At the end of June a UN spokesman stated that the Iraqi report contained new information but no details of foreign suppliers or of the number of ballistic weapons Iraq had used . |
| 14 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 15 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 16 | The German Ideology makes no detailed references to specific studies of primitive societies or to the work of anthropologist . |
| 17 | personal contacts have also improved : one Soviet commentator reports that ‘ In the past , visits of Soviet and Latin American businessmen to each other for commercial talks or for an appraisal of export and import requirements were incidental ; nowadays hundreds of businessmen and experts from Latin America come to the Soviet Union each year and as many Soviet specialists visit the Latin American countries ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , pp. 11–12 ) . |
| 18 | Both are sold in pre-packed wedges or from the cutting counter . |
| 19 | This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way . |
| 20 | Exports to Lithuania undertaken by private companies or on the initiative of Lithuanian emigré organizations were also likely to prove logistically impossible , since Lithuania 's borders and customs posts remained under Soviet administration . |
| 21 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 22 | It is evident that the third defendant and the third party are not , on any view of the case , joint contractors or joint tortfeasors or in a relationship where contribution is available under equitable principles . |
| 23 | Countries with balance of payments problems — in the sense of having requirements for official financing which put a strain on official reserves or on the capacity to borrow abroad on reasonable terms — have had to resort to traditional defensive measures in such circumstances . |
| 24 | 8.1 The Department is committed to support any member of staff who is assaulted either whilst carrying out their official duties or as a consequence of official duties . |
| 25 | Available as separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 26 | Available in separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 27 | Where they may differ from their informal counterparts is in the amount of time spent on such studies or on the message given to the children and their parents that such activities are incidental to ‘ real ’ learning ( the mastery of arithmetical or grammatical skills ) . |
| 28 | If so , as joint auditors or with the right to review the audit ? |
| 29 | Actions may be commenced by or against partners in their own individual names or in the name of the firm . |
| 30 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |