Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [prep] [noun pl] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Social Democratic Party considers it to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations … it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state . |
| 2 | Birds have a better breathing system than that of mammals or lizards . |
| 3 | Physicians ' attitudes to attempted suicide patients are to a large extent negative ( Patel 1975 ; Ramon et al. 1975 ) and certainly less sympathetic than those of psychiatrists or nurses ( Ramon et al. 1975 ; Hawton et al. 1981 b ) . |
| 4 | there is as much stability in aesthetic judgements as in ethical or political or philosophical or scientific ; [ and ] the reputations of poets and artists are not less but more assured than those of biologists or statesmen or metaphysicians . |
| 5 | Following the work of the joint UGC/CNAA DipHE Study Group which was chaired by Walter ( the following year to become Sir Walter ) Perry , Vice-Chancellor of the Open University , the CNAA set up a DipHE Group , chaired by James Porter , Principal of the Berkshire College , with half of its membership from the universities and half from colleges or polytechnics with an interest in teacher education . |