Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unlikely to guarantee you a post on completion , but most employers will be happy to discuss possible openings or vacancies with you , subject to satisfactory references and your suitability as assessed at personal interview . |
| 2 | It has been tentatively interpreted as a praetorium , which could provide a residence for high-ranking officers or accommodation for them when travelling . |
| 3 | A powerful melodic line in the bass with accompanying chords or figures above it . |
| 4 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 5 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 6 | Let us take the variable x to cover or range over certain conceivable events or conditions or whatever — in fact individual properties or sets of them — which in fact did not occur . |
| 7 | How individual capitalists or groups of them choose to accumulate will have to be explained in terms of personality , entrepreneurial history and material opportunities . |
| 8 | At the least , this should include an obligation on directors who refuse to register personal representatives or transferees from them to state their reasons . |
| 9 | Much of the boulder clay appears in humps , called drumlins , with damp , peaty hollows or marshes between them . |
| 10 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 11 | Or rather , it will be economical to use one of these terms in a yet more general way , to cover all of these things and also things that do not fall naturally into any of the mentioned ordinary or semi-technical categories or ones like them . |
| 12 | Locke notes that ‘ manna , by the bulk , figure , texture and motion of its parts , has a power to produce the sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings in us ’ . |
| 13 | Peter Shuker , principal of the Darlington College of Technology , said half of the county 's over-16s stayed on in sixth forms or colleges like his . |
| 14 | That 's something Friends of the Earth agrees with : ‘ It concerns us that recently a lot of proposals for courses have luxury houses or hotels with them , getting permission to put buildings where they might not otherwise have been . ’ |
| 15 | Soon there would be no more cushions or stools for her to decorate . |
| 16 | All the Brownies agreed , and so Beegee promised to see what she could do about getting old-fashioned uniforms or photographs of them so that mothers could make them in the style of earlier days . |
| 17 | 4.8 Section 2(4) of the Law Reform ( Personal Injuries ) Act 1948 ( see Appendix C ) provides that in an action for damages for personal injuries there shall be disregarded , in determining the reasonableness of any expenses , the possibility of avoiding those expenses or part of them by taking advantage of facilities available in the National Health Service . |
| 18 | Firstly , this order that all Cossacks were to " be treated as Soviet Nationals " appeared to sanction the sending over of any Germans or emigres among them . |
| 19 | She had realized that she , who had always been so outgoing as a young singer , had been verging on the brink of obsession with her own failures , her own abilities or lack of them , with Gesner and his personal vendetta . |
| 20 | Users can now search the database by entering whole words or parts of them . |
| 21 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 22 | What about those of us who are not saints or healers or holy men or men like you or in any way find it easy to do His service — why is He so mysteriously absent from us ? |
| 23 | Chair can I make a suggestion quite clearly a large number of people have made some very good and valid recommendations or suggestions to you and the board this evening and you 've said on many occasions this evening the board will obviously go away discuss those and take a view on the particular ideas . |