Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] or a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head . |
| 2 | The odd chicken or a carrot cake would be much appreciated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There is in my view , however , also an obvious distinction between jurisdiction conferred by a statute on a court of law of limited jurisdiction to decide a defined question finally and conclusively or unappealably , and a similar jurisdiction conferred on the High Court or a judge of the High Court acting in his judicial capacity . |
| 6 | Parties to litigation in the High Court or a county court do not receive a full written judgment containing the trial judge 's reasoning . |
| 7 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 8 | In order to reduce delay , cost and complexity in the civil justice system , the Civil Justice Review recommended that the county court should be retained as a court separate from the High Court , but that the upper limit of county court jurisdiction should be abolished , that all civil proceedings , with a few exceptions , should be commenced by a document called a writ , which would be issued in either the High Court or a county court , and that there should be an improved system of transfer of cases between county court and High Court . |
| 9 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 10 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 13 | for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply . |
| 14 | A glance at the architectural section of any of the annual handbooks published by the leading denominations or a survey of the denominational press shows how important they had become . |
| 15 | You can be the Prime Minister or a dustman and it 's still the most important thing in the world . |
| 16 | 1.23 As a result of the automatic directions or a direction for reciprocal disclosure of medical evidence , evidence is agreed in the majority of cases . |
| 17 | Hence , it is usual to calculate the q's for the current year or a period of years and apply these to what becomes a hypothetical cohort ‘ followed ’ through a current or period life table . |
| 18 | If an inspector discovers a contravention of one of the provisions of the existing legislation or a contravention of a provision of the Order he can : |
| 19 | A raider — either the existing management or a buy-out specialist such as KKR — in effect took a gamble rather like that taken every day by a stockmarket dealer or currency trader . |
| 20 | Choose a colour from the existing design or a contrast colour if the fabric is plain . |
| 21 | Frequently a crisis is precipitated by some sudden change in health or behaviour , of the elderly person or a carer . |
| 22 | By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script . |
| 23 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 24 | Exercise is allowed in the event of an amalgamation , reconstruction or take-over of the Company ; alternatively , options may , with the agreement of the acquiring company , be exchanged for options over shares in the acquiring company or a company associated with the acquiring company . |
| 25 | The substance can be the damaged goods or a fuel ( e.g. coal or gas ) or tobacco . |
| 26 | Indeed , according to Beatrice Webb , ‘ So far as I know , no member of the Labour Party , certainly not any Front Bench man , foresaw the possibility of a Labour Government arising out of the election ’ , and most expected either a continuation of the Conservative government or a renewal of Conservative/Liberal coalition . |
| 27 | This can only be achieved if the current manager is the specified user or a descendant of the specified user . |
| 28 | You can use either the border version , the single motifs or a combination of both . |
| 29 | Most manufacturers produce a given design of stepping motor with a range of winding interconnections , so the user can elect to use a low-voltage , high-current drive with the parallel connection or a high-voltage , low-current drive with the series connection . |
| 30 | The departments either reported to a finance director or planning director on the main board or a planning director positioned just below the main board but as a member of an executive committee . |