Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal . |
| 2 | Financial performance that is basically the financial strength or weakness of at the present . |
| 3 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 4 | Turkey with all the trimmings , the Queen 's speech ‘ on the box ’ , and perhaps the odd drink or mince pie too many . |
| 5 | These points generally apply equally whether the action is brought in the High Court or county court . |
| 6 | We can either go on , or turn back to fill in the secondary material or accompaniment . |
| 7 | There is , however , no evidence that any therapeutic intervention benefits patients with asymptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , let alone those with only the genetic trait or borderline asymmetric septal hypertrophy . |
| 8 | As Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) have pointed out , ‘ privatism ’ in urban policy is as much a cultural tradition or ideology as a coherent set of practices . |
| 9 | Although regular guest speakers are being organised , it is hoped to encourage contributions from within our own membership , be it a whole evening 's entertainment or merely a ten-minute talk or slide-presentation . |
| 10 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 11 | Secondly the child of perhaps a second husband or wife so your stepchildren if you have any . |
| 12 | Old kitchen or office chairs — there are always some in secondhand and junk shops — look fine stripped and painted in a variety of colours , some red , some pink or purple , for example , or all white with perhaps a coloured strut or leg , or all black . |
| 13 | But it is very difficult to blow slurry straight down a tube , so a small tanker or nurse tank is placed between the two . ’ |
| 14 | This was so in Bedfordshire , for example : in 1952 the District Council carried a motion deploring ‘ the withdrawal of the services of a full-time officer of the WEA from Bedfordshire when so large a proportion of branches in the area are so recently formed and still in need of assistance and encouragement that only a full-time organiser or tutor-organiser can give ’ . |
| 15 | The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once . |
| 16 | In general , matrices are rectangular ; but of particular importance are matrices having equal numbers of rows and columns — i.e. square matrices — and those having only a single row or column , which we call vectors ; both types are special forms of rectangular matrices . |
| 17 | But also , broadening the other way , a ‘ school ’ can be a whole body of teachers of a discipline , in a particular place , and then by no means necessarily a specific tendency or body of doctrine . |
| 18 | ‘ Such an intensive subject assessment was stressful for the staff , ’ commented Fiona Baikie , ‘ but it helped that we were all assessed together , so no one subject or person was singled out . |
| 19 | Rather than tending to achieve constantly a similar grade or mark ( whether a low of a high one ) on tests with ever higher standards , they will constantly be increasing their own level of attainment on the same scale of levels . |
| 20 | Only an approved Alteration or Review of Structure Plan 1985 can amend the approved terms of the Plan . |
| 21 | Serve the salmon on the lentils and sprinkle over the fresh chervil or dill and pink peppercorns . |
| 22 | In cities wherein only a handful of Jews lived , such as Edinburgh , Dundee or Perth , or in towns like Paisley or Kilmarnock , there was not the same atmosphere or vibrancy , excitement or interest . |
| 23 | The components provide for automatic on-line retry as a way to achieve high system availability , AT&T says , adding that software fault tolerance can be provided in an application whether or not the underlying hardware or operating system is fault-tolerant . |
| 24 | History is no longer a limited partnership or enterprise between these two groups . |
| 25 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 26 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 27 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 28 | Many large firms of solicitors now print their own explanatory leaflets dealing with the stages in conveyancing , and it is both useful and impressive to be able to hand over a printed leaflet or pamphlet at the time of the first meeting , so as to indicate to a client each of the detailed steps you will be taking on his or her behalf . |
| 29 | Moreover , ‘ structural ’ relations between them can be clarified , by showing for instance that this computation is or is not a necessary prerequisite or accompaniment of that one . |
| 30 | The thrust of the recommendations made by Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) is that NAEP ‘ is not a short-term research or decision-making tool ’ , but that it should become ‘ a useful long-term census ’ . |