Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general the availability of charity varied with the existence or not of a resident bourgeoisie with a surplus to give , although a considerable amount was given by those with little to spare . |
| 2 | By using years of different lengths , depending on the insertion or not of an intercalary month , reasonable agreement with the sun was maintained . |
| 3 | If you 're moving in or out of a multi-storey block , try to arrange priority at lifts and make sure there 's a suitable place to load or unload the van . |
| 4 | It is not known whether there will be a full archaeological investigation of the entire site , or even of a large part of it ; the excavation ends today . |
| 5 | I have no doubt that the wishes of a 16- or 17-year-old child or indeed of a younger child who is ‘ Gillick competent ’ are of the greatest importance both legally and clinically , but I do doubt whether Thorpe J. was right to conclude that W. was of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 6 | In addition to these results , much of the work done on the EMT has concerned the existence or otherwise of a financial illusion . |
| 7 | On the desirability or otherwise of a comprehensive list of what should be done at each level , the best way to proceed is for there to be a presumption , effectively , that matters are best dealt with at national level unless it can be shown that that is better done at Community level . |
| 8 | In determining the tolerability or otherwise of a given risk , promote effective consultation with those who may be exposed , where this is practical . |
| 9 | The Elton Committee concluded that the lack of uniformity suggested that the effectiveness or otherwise of a particular sanction depended both on the individual teacher and on the circumstances of the school . |
| 10 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 11 | Yet it was able to produce a score sheet which showed that out of a possible score of 100 , the Peoples Solidarity Party came first with 43.90 , followed by the Nigerian National Congress ( 42.62 ) , the Peoples Front of Nigeria ( 41.20 ) and the Liberal Convention ( 34.08 ) . |
| 12 | There are those who believe that out of a divided society you can create a unitary section . |
| 13 | Like Bentham 's own reasons for designing the Panopticon , the Government has suggested that managerial staff should install microelectronics technology on their premises for financial reasons , in the pursuit of profit or to safeguard continued economic viability , rather than out of a perceived need to save energy per se . |
| 14 | Now if you read Mrs Thatcher 's memoirs you will decide that instead of a great sweep of events er making things happen , Mrs Thatcher makes things happen . |
| 15 | The drawing suggests that instead of a constant aim that is on target at every moment . |
| 16 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 17 | It meant that instead of an immediate hunting ban on all the 148 tenant farms owned by the council , only new tenancies would be affected , so in reality ban will take years to have any real effect . |
| 18 | Indeed , if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ , it would even be possible to maintain the libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature , whether it occurs in men or in women . |
| 19 | The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes . |
| 20 | The words also speak of the joy and fun of friendship , of looking into a pool of knowledge , of drinking and lastly of a tender farewell . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend speculate on the effect on jobs in the electronics industry in my constituency and elsewhere of a Labour party proposal to increase value added tax on luxury items to 25 per cent ? |
| 22 | Constitutionally disinclined to surrender preferment , being , as he once observed , ‘ of a modest if not of a retiring disposition ’ , he remained librarian until 1952 . |
| 23 | The body armour of these creatures was constructed partly of lime and partly of a horny substance called chitin . |
| 24 | A well-ordered civilisation demands standard basic skills of a physical kind : mobility and manipulation , and also of a mental kind : reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 25 | Mrs Winston Frederick Churchill Guest , née Miss Lucy Cochrane , known to all by the stylish acronym C.Z. ( ‘ See-Zee ’ ) — after her brother 's childish struggles with ‘ sister ’ — is the diamond-bright , first-water totem of old-money American high society , chatelaine of homes in Long Island , Palm Beach and Middleburg , Virginia ( and formerly of an imposing apartment at Number 1 , Sutton Place ) . |
| 26 | We sat together , watching the Youngest Son drift in and out of a drug-induced sleep . |
| 27 | Of course if you want real STOL performance — to get in and out of a small lake or tightly winding river , perhaps — this is the machine for it . |
| 28 | ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette . |
| 29 | They can hardly avoid suggesting death and life ; in that case his song says there can be no defeat — even if the wanderers die in the dark wood , the real Old Forest , they will in death break through to sunlight and out of a hampering shade . |
| 30 | Secondly , pathways do not have to weave their way in and out of a single tree . |