Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems .
2 The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers .
3 The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) .
4 He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country .
5 They have erm in breaking new situations , if there is something big going on , you know , or during the democratic convention or whatever it is , or this Iraq thing , the anchors stay around the studio and then maybe do a replay , so to speak .
6 The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female .
7 This option is available at any time but will be particularly useful where equipment is too large for transport or for a screened room and where harmonised standards are unavailable or where the nature of the product means that evaluation by an expert would be useful .
8 ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor .
9 ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor .
10 Variations to these customs can be made when there are no bridesmaids , or parents , or for a second marriage where the couple are paying for their own wedding .
11 The carriage of goods for a subsidiary or for a holding company and for other companies which are subsidiaries of the same holding company is generally regarded as own account for these purposes .
12 The bank manager , accountant , solicitor or building contractor might have something to offer at a particular time or for a particular purpose but they would not be fully established voting members of the group .
13 It is quite common to insert further provisions prohibiting the offeree group from entering into contracts or commitments involving more than a stated sum or for a longer period than , say , a year , or entering into other transactions which are outside the routine course of trading without the consent of the acquirer .
14 At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp .
15 Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then .
16 Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ?
17 One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road .
18 You can use OR as a logical operator or as a " bit-by-bit " ( bitwise ) operator .
19 The harsh treatment of this attitude , as experienced by the mother in the play could be interpreted two ways : either as evidence of the pressure brought to bear on the parent by outside forces , even family ; or as a positive sign that the mother 's position was wrong fundamentally .
20 I personally never rated Ickx as a driver or as a human being and Regazzoni , though a great step upwards from the slick gigolo type that Ickx liked to play , like a second-rate understudy for Jean-Paul Belmondo , always struck me as stronger on brawn and stubbornness than on brain .
21 There is no more evidence for these suggestions , however , than for the possible suggestion that the office was largely honorary and created ad hominem for Molla Fenari , perhaps as an inducement to return from Karaman or as an additional honour when he did return .
22 In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice .
23 ( 2 ) At or after the preliminary appointment if there be one , the arbitrator shall fix a date for the dispute to be heard ( unless the parties consent to his deciding it on the statements and documents submitted to him — an unusual course not usually acceptable to the parties or the district judge ) and he shall give such directions regarding the steps to be taken before and at the hearing as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable .
24 In the case of a minor , or of a mental patient where no person is authorised to act for him by the Court of Protection , then the " next friend " must file a written undertaking ( N 235 ) , attested as would be an affidavit , to be responsible for costs ( Ord 10 , r 2(b) ) .
25 There is little talk of film as ‘ film ’ , television as ‘ television ’ or of the two forms as different but connected social processes .
26 At the time , and indeed until much later , I had no knowledge of Mrs Castle 's objections or of the many discussions that had taken place on this subject at government level .
27 Clearly he was not an opponent of royal authority , or of secular policies , or of the warlike activities that these policies required , or even of Rufus himself .
28 ‘ The court shall not be bound to allow the appeal on the ground merely of misdirection , or of the improper admission or rejection of evidence , unless in the opinion of the court substantial wrong or miscarriage has been thereby occasioned .
29 Dr Glasser holds that alcoholism is a very real , concrete , disease rather than a disease of the human spirit or of the abstract senses but his understanding of alcoholism , based upon his practical experience as a general clinical psychiatrist , with no specific interest in the subject of alcoholism more than in any other , again fits closely with the expressed understanding in " Alcoholics Anonymous " and the experience of treatment centres using the Minnesota Method .
30 ‘ Reserve stock , describes a closed access part of a library located in or near the same building as the open access collections .
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