Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 2 | The board of the vendor company also has a duty to deal fairly between all shareholders of the same class , although it does not need to treat them exactly the same if there are particular reasons for different treatment , as in the case of regulatory or exchange control requirements applying to overseas shareholders . |
| 3 | Motor Racing : Michael Horst , vice-president of corporate affairs , Philip Morris [ Marlboro ] , is reported to ‘ admit that the removal of corporate or brand images would lead to an enforced evacuation from sport in general , and the Philip Morris subsidiary , General Foods , incorporating Kraft and Jacobs-Suchard , could decide part of the vacuum was worth filling ’ [ Glasgow Herald , 20.1.91 ] |
| 4 | In the setting of residential or day care , group work offers a social worker the chance to work with more people in a different way . |
| 5 | Are the managers of nurses given the opportunity to assess the consequences of the establishment of new or replacement consultant staff ? |
| 6 | Children often have the same class teacher ( usually the teacher of Danish or mathematics ) throughout their nine or 10 years in school , and as a result teacher-pupil relationships are close and relaxed . |
| 7 | Perhaps an interim step would be to develop the concept of co-operative or team teaching with the class teacher and support teacher working as a team , each sharing the responsibility for the education of all children , similar to the model described by Bell and Best ( 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Conflict , on the other hand , may lead to tension , to inter-personal friction , and to the pursuit of individual or group goals rather than the pursuit of organisational goals . |
| 9 | In the face of this evidence there is no sense in continuing to rely on the pathological or medical model as the main basis for the development of additional or specialist services . |
| 10 | It is recognised , however , that it may be appropriate to include as an element of the CPE programme , time spent on the development of interpersonal or management skills . |
| 11 | The utilization of established or collaborationist governments , as in Thailand or the Philippines , was little more than a façade for Japanese rule . |
| 12 | When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut . |
| 13 | Where appropriate , supporting the opening of new or re-opening of railway stations . |
| 14 | There is provision in the Education Act , under special circumstances , for the suspension of all or part of the National Curriculum , so as to allow developmental work to take place . |
| 15 | This involves the disposal of all or part ( at least 25 per cent ) of the existing shareholdings to the public and investing institutions through the Exchange . |
| 16 | Most lampreys are filter-feeders as young and ectoparasitic blood-suckers as adults , whereas hagfishes are predators or they rasp away the flesh of dead or moribund fishes . |
| 17 | Because database systems require fast retrieval , this method of organising data is unlikely to be appropriate , apart from , perhaps , the storage of historical or back-up files . |
| 18 | Those who produced staple grains might have to worry about the competition of national or world markets which hardly troubled those who sold dairy products , eggs , vegetables , fruit or even fresh meat — or any other perishable commodity which could not be transported over large distances . |
| 19 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 20 | The Americans were also becoming increasingly interested in the potential of tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | His retention of the custody of a number of escheated royal honours in Essex and of Hadleigh Castle ( originally granted to him in July 1264 ) until the end of 1265 or beginning of 1266 , and his subsequent association with John de Burgh in June 1266 in the keeping of the peace in the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire , indicate that he successfully negotiated the transition from Montfortian rule to royalist restoration after the battle of Evesham . |
| 22 | To this extent movements or parties specifically committed to a ‘ nationalist ’ programme , mostly separatist , are likely to be the expression of sectional or minority interest , or to be politically fluctuating and unstable . |
| 23 | The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers . |
| 24 | ICD lead sytems can be inserted by median sternotomy at the time of coronary or valve surgery or by a more limited left lateral thoracotomy or a subxiphoid approach . |
| 25 | The office of seneschal or king-duke 's lieutenant in Aquitaine was therefore not a specialized one , although the tendency for men with legal training to be appointed increased as difficulties over the respective spheres of Capetian and Plantagenet jurisdiction in Aquitaine multiplied in the 1280s and early 1290s . |
| 26 | More important , natural selection provides a model of how there can be change towards a kind of fit or harmony , towards structured complexity , which is neither planned nor the result of goal-directed activity . |
| 27 | There was no hospital ward , no smell of carbolic or disinfectant , no bouquet of flowers , get well cards , or baskets of fruit , just lots and lots of love awaiting the newcomer . |
| 28 | Van Gelder was right , there were no signs of bruising or blood where the engineer had been gashed on the head . |
| 29 | I wonder if the wife would like a four-pack of bitter or lager for Christmas ? |
| 30 | I wonder if the wife would like a four-pack of bitter or lager for Christmas ? |