Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] or [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the longer term they require more general financial information in order to assess whether or not there is likely to be an increase or decrease in requirement for the goods or services they supply . |
| 2 | By acknowledging sources , you show the foundations for the speculations or conclusions you yourself are adding . |
| 3 | The flag has always been a symbol of the militant faith of the Salvation Army and in the early days of the movement invariably became the main target for the larrikins or hoodlums who did their best to destroy the marches and meetings . |
| 4 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 5 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 6 | If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers . |
| 7 | Few of the rulers or ministers who attempted far-reaching reform in these areas were much influenced by the Enlightenment and none advertised his adherence to its ideas as Frederick II and Catherine II did . |
| 8 | The determination or disposal is treated as a transfer of value by the beneficiary and the rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of it and any previous chargeable transfers by him unless the determination or disposal took place before 10/12/74 when , in implement of the undertaking in the White Paper ( Cmnd 5705 ) that in these circumstances any tax chargeable would be no greater than that which would be due if the trust were an individual who had made chargeable gifts equal to the capital becoming chargeable , the rate is arrived at by reference solely to the total of the determinations or disposals which have taken place in the trust since 25/3/74 , if by so doing the amount of tax payable would be reduced . |
| 9 | If the guardian believes that it would assist the court to see all or any of the records or documents he has inspected he must notify the court ( FPCR , r11(9) ( b ) ; FPR , r4.11(9) ( b ) ) . |
| 10 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 11 | Such examination and statement should be made without regard to any opinion as to the merit , or demerits of the drawings or designs which should not be taken into consideration or referred to . |
| 12 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 13 | If I did not have to involve one of the registrars or consultants my throughput increased . |
| 14 | As such , it can not be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs . |
| 15 | This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them . |
| 16 | analyse actual performance , appraise it against the objectives or yardsticks which have been set , and analyse the comparison ; |
| 17 | For Berkeley , human knowledge must be concerned either with ideas , or with the minds or spirits which perceive them ; for apart from these there is nothing . |
| 18 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 19 | There is , however , another sense in which style is complex : not just in the levels of choice , but in the values or significances which are associated with choice . |
| 20 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 21 | It is quite without the trees or hedges which enclose all the country around it . |
| 22 | They are degraded for , in the literal sense , they live outside the grades or categories which the community regards as acceptable . |
| 23 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 24 | Fourth , the means of implementation is vital in terms of who does the policing of fenced-off pastures or restrictions on land-use , and how extension , new inputs and other specialist skills are to be delivered to the farmers or pastoralists themselves . |
| 25 | It is the experience of listening to the responses or readings which have been triggered by them which has led me to question the nature of the arguments usually put forward by antiracists to explain racism . |
| 26 | Different communities , then , may bring different interpretations to the words or signifiers they hear or read . |
| 27 | Such language focused attention on the individuals or groups who were ‘ breaking the law ’ , ‘ committing criminal acts ’ , and threatening the interests of the law-abiding ‘ majority ’ . |