Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one-third of cases there was either suspicion or definite knowledge that a sibling had also been abused ( cf. |
| 2 | The symbol is seen on the underparts or pads in a left-handed or anticlockwise configuration , which would become a right-angled or clockwise image if an imprint of the foot was imagined . |
| 3 | Teaching methods may , for example , use visual or auditory stimulation or a combination of both . |
| 4 | ‘ Bryan uses seven or eight Strats and a couple of Gretsches — a green one and we 've just got the orange one . ’ |
| 5 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 6 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 7 | Basically it is a good foundation to the day to include a glass of skimmed or semi-skimmed milk and a piece of fruit ( or fresh fruit juice ) with this meal . |
| 8 | Previously damage liability caused by or arising out of maintenance , process or modification or direct application or a tool was excluded . |
| 9 | One can also choose between a top-down or hypothesis-driven strategy and a bottom-up or data-driven strategy depending on whether the rule expansion is driven by the addition of active edges or inactive edges . |
| 10 | Or some toast or a thread … " but he shook his grey head |
| 11 | Then cheese and chocolate mousse or crème caramel and a couple of bottles of good wine . ’ |
| 12 | According to John Herbert , who became second Secretary of State in 1600 , it had three principal functions : the business of the Queen , in which it ‘ doth handle principally questions and consultations of state ’ ; disputes between party and party , which might involve either criminal or civil suits or a mixture of the two ; and disputes ‘ wherein the Queen is a party ’ . |
| 13 | Thus the general requirement of justice , ‘ harm no one ’ , is utterly indeterminate and can accommodate the content of any positive law whatever insofar as ‘ harm ’ is not a precondition of a legal rule or moral principle but a consequence of the definitions of legitimate interests and the common good established by such rules and principles . |
| 14 | ( c ) A check against target costs or standard costs and a long-stop for the budgetary control of individual projects . |
| 15 | A police state , or corporate state or a state run by IT experts . |
| 16 | Still , there is a substantial difference between the sort of agricultural economy in which sales to the wider world are marginal or optional , and the sort whose fortunes depend on them ; between — to put it another way — those haunted by the spectre of a bad harvest and consequent famine , and those haunted by its opposite , overproduction or sudden competition and a collapse of prices . |
| 17 | The needle is then withdrawn and the patient goes back to bed if he is an in-patient , or rests for two or three hours if an out-patient , before returning home to rest there . |
| 18 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
| 19 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 20 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 21 | The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’ |
| 22 | HIV is found in the blood and semen or vaginal fluid or a person with HIV or AIDS in sufficient quantity to infect another person , but only if the virus within these body fluids enters the bloodstream of the other person . |
| 23 | Optional course either Civil Law or International Law or a course from outside the Law Faculty eg German 1 , British History 1 |
| 24 | The cut positions were determined by primer extension experiments using 5' phosphorylated M13 universal or reverse primer and a pBlueScript KS derivative containing an I- Sce III cleavage site . |
| 25 | The presence of the dog at the time of the offence is hard to disprove in the absence of the dead or injured dog or a witness . |
| 26 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 27 | You can change the mood with accessories : jewellery , a stunning hat or coloured shoes and a bag . ’ |
| 28 | Similarly , when Wannemacher and Ryan ( 1978 ) in one condition asked three-to five-year-olds to identify rods with either more or less beads than a standard , the children did well on both more and less : 98 per cent and 95 per cent correct . |
| 29 | Charles Booth found that 31 per cent of London 's population in the 1880s lived in primary or secondary poverty and a decade later Seebohm Rowntree claimed that 28 per cent of the people of York lived in equal hardship . |
| 30 | The other main part of the plays was the Parabasis , normally split into two parts and accompanied by one or more Scenes and a Chorikon , before a finale often involving a feast or rejuvenation , and leading to a final Exodos . |