Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a vision or a psychic experience or a message from above . |
| 2 | A key or a lifeless deed or a cheap Roberts reproduction , perhaps a family snapshot or a tourist postcard of the 1930s , is the nearest that many Palestinian exiles can move in spirit towards the place they regard as their homeland . |
| 3 | AEA 's extensive expertise and experience , and unrivalled access to the range of technology and systems needed , means that services can be tailored to meet precise requirements be it a single isolator or a comprehensive containment or a hazardous materials handling project for the pharmaceutical or process industry . |
| 4 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 5 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 6 | You could just drift and hang out and see what happened , which suited me fine , even more than being a Customs Officer or a professional footballer or a guitarist . |
| 7 | You know , exactly the same thing , but changing the language , changing the format , and changing the so forth in such a way that it would correspond to a woman 's magazine , or a local newspaper or a national newspaper or a , or a trade magazine and so forth . |
| 8 | trustees of , say , an accumulation and maintenance trust or a discretionary trust or a life interest trust ; 2. bare trustees or nominees ; and 3. agents . |
| 9 | You know , exactly the same thing , but changing the language , changing the format , and changing the so forth in such a way that it would correspond to a woman 's magazine , or a local newspaper or a national newspaper or a , or a trade magazine and so forth . |
| 10 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 11 | It 's fairly clear when you would use a book or an Overhead Projector or a magazine picture in your teaching and it 's not difficult to see that video makes a different contribution . |
| 12 | Teaching about computers is important , both technically and from the role they 're going to have in the children 's lives , but as I have said before the main interest , from an educational point of view , is using it as one would use a video tape or an overhead projector or a blackboard and a piece of chalk . |
| 13 | Portraits also play a major part in Clamey 's work , ‘ I 'm probably very old fashioned but I believe still that the principal aim or a portrait is to achieve a good likeness of your sitter , but you also have to create a picture . ’ |
| 14 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 15 | At the moment tunic tops are fashionable and these look well started with a tubular hem , a narrow jacquard border knitted at a lower stitch size than the main fabric or a garter stitch hem if you have a transfer lock . |
| 16 | Such an approach would also solve a further problem mentioned by Cunliffe , who suggests that a mere bruise or a love bite would bring a defendant within Category 2 . |
| 17 | If the husband is prepared to remain liable under the mortgage he should remain a trustee of the legal estate ( which could stand in the names of the husband , the wife and new husband ) so that he will know the state of the mortgage account and so that a further advance or a second charge can not be created without his consent . |
| 18 | The fact that a local authority or a central department lacks one resource does not mean that it lacks others . |
| 19 | Secondly , of course it is true , and it always has been , that if people are asked , ’ Do you think that a Scottish assembly or a Scottish Parliament is a good idea ? ’ , most tend to give a positive response . |
| 20 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 21 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 22 | I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels , but if I have no love my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell . |
| 23 | Fifth , it is a continuous or long term process rather than a one-shot exercise or a brief episode in the life of the school . |
| 24 | There was no impetus to develop anything more sophisticated than a spoken announcement or a separate piece of paper packed into the box . |
| 25 | But that is what the arrangement was : an alliance rather than a consolidated interest or a genuinely shared culture . |
| 26 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 27 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 28 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 29 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 30 | This , however , does not mean that there are no further levels of distinction inside the group or that an individual member or a particular family within the gens may not have privileged access to a part of the gens territory . |