Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 18 ) The structure of the takeover ( eg a recommended offer or a Court Scheme ) may require the consent of preference shareholders , lenders or optionholders or holders of convertible securities in or to the target . |
| 2 | There is little to please those who want to hear merely a beautiful sound or a neat , well- tailored style , everything to move those who believe that , like her great predecessors , Lehmann and Fischer-Dieskau or her co- eral Schrier , the word should have equal place with the music . |
| 3 | If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ? |
| 4 | For example , many old people living alone have been forced to move into residential care when experiencing a temporary crisis ( perhaps a broken hip or a mild stroke ) in the absence of suitable emergency domiciliary care . |
| 5 | So I said , should I fill in a quick-fix report or a noncompliance report , to say that the quick-fix form , or is it a noncompliance report is wrong . |
| 6 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 7 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 8 | At the same time it 's worth remembering that at least one contrast colour , even if only a large plant or a mass of flowers or cushions , will help to emphasize the clever harmony of the background colour scheme . |
| 9 | The best questions to ask in a survey are those which require only a single word/phrase or a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer . |
| 10 | If you are in an agency without someone trying to sell you something , even if it is only an old joke or a cup of coffee , within five minutes , you should be suspicious . |
| 11 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 12 | Or a just a large table or a large array . |
| 13 | The proposal may be to replace just a single building or a row of shops , or there may be plans for a comprehensive redevelopment involving a whole block or more . |
| 14 | If the path leads over a steep bank or a log , workers will cling to one another to form a living ladder up which the rest of the column clambers . |
| 15 | This is all the more important because multimedia is not a discrete technology or a communications medium in itself and could potentially have an important role in many different industry sectors . |
| 16 | Much of the psychological pain caused by infertility of either partner comes from the idea that you are not a real man or a real woman if , for any reason , some small part of your reproductive system works inadequately . |
| 17 | They always coupled the words free and Zuwayi ( or Magharbi or Majbari ) in this context : not a free lawyer or a free farmer , but a free Zuwayi . |
| 18 | No one had reckoned on a strike which was not a clear success or a clear failure . |
| 19 | At least he 's not a spotty adolescent or a man that smokes a pipe in bed or reads philosophy while you 're making love . |
| 20 | The starting-point is not a theoretical insight or a research finding or a recommended line of approach but what the teacher finds problematic , what issues are from her point of view in need of clarification and resolution . |
| 21 | If it does come to giving assistance , remember this is living tissue , it is not a strong arm fight , it is not a macho business or a battle of the sexes . |
| 22 | Voluntary effort is not an easy option or a cheap supplement . |
| 23 | To maximise profits is for management not an optional exercise or a work of supererogation : it is management 's basic duty . |
| 24 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 25 | Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military . |
| 26 | WRONG a sagging bed or a hard bed can aggravate back pain . |
| 27 | He called him a skinny runt and a half-grown whelp , and he bellowed with amusement whenever a threatening movement or a deliberately sudden yell of ‘ Boo ’ caused the boy to flinch with alarm . |
| 28 | The frosts and lack of plant growth will serve to make molehills stand out more , and as moles thrive in light soils , their mounds are a good source of clean local earth for potting up a floral arrangement or a small tree . |
| 29 | In fact , no one can foretell whether a given innovation will end up a big business or a modest achievement . |
| 30 | The best kind of flat is one that is above ground floor level and has its own entrance , providing that you do not gain access to your entrance up an unlit staircase or a long , dark walkway . |