Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | Teaching methods may , for example , use visual or auditory stimulation or a combination of both . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Previously damage liability caused by or arising out of maintenance , process or modification or direct application or a tool was excluded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or some toast or a thread … " but he shook his grey head |
| 8 | Then cheese and chocolate mousse or crème caramel and a couple of bottles of good wine . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A police state , or corporate state or a state run by IT experts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Optional course either Civil Law or International Law or a course from outside the Law Faculty eg German 1 , British History 1 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cover with a piece of oiled foil or greaseproof paper and a board , or the base of one of the removable-base tart or cake tins now to be found in many kitchen utensil shops , to fit exactly inside the dish . |
| 19 | Many residents have some kind of support which is usually a stick , a Zimmer or wheeled frame or a wheelchair . |
| 20 | An overnight stay includes a full English or Continental breakfast and a newspaper of our choice . |
| 21 | The second begged question is whether the foregoing can apply when the articles provide for rights of pre-emption or first refusal when a shareholder wishes to dispose of his shares . |
| 22 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 23 | ‘ Otherwise … there wo n't be parliamentary power in Russia or dual power but a power vacuum that would weaken Russia , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Applicants should have a City and Guilds certificate , an ONC or equivalent qualification or a degree in an appropriate subject . |
| 25 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 26 | It further adds that an object ‘ normally dedicated to civilian purposes , such as a place of worship , a house or other dwelling or a school ’ shall in case of doubt be presumed to be making no effective contribution to military action . |
| 27 | Any additional support or special tuition that a pupil needs as a result of defective sight must be given tactfully by the teacher or teacher 's aid , with an emphasis on what the pupil can do rather than on difficulties . |
| 28 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 29 | And this self , in the introductory chapter , is surely right to suggest that moral sense and a sense of the numinous do not come naturally — as some anthropological dismissals of religion might suggest — from some crude pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe . |
| 30 | Push towards the limits of the tyres ' adhesion , though , and you provoke little more than mild understeer and a screech of protest from the Continental Sport Contact 195/50 VR15 rubber . |