Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 FREE Air Miles with every 25 litres of Shell Advanced Fuels or with every litre of Shell Oil . |
| 2 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 3 | Now in drama an excessive degree of vested interest in either the technical aspects or in the substance of the subject-matter can upset the balance so that the ‘ game ’ of drama and the necessary spontaneity that goes with it disappear . |
| 4 | This is a code of conduct for directors of listed companies requiring them not to deal in their own company 's shares on short-term considerations or at a time when they are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 5 | This can be doing running down actions for existing private clients or as an adjunct to one of their other areas of litigation . |
| 6 | The notices give general information on particular aspects of the tax , while leaflets provide more specialised guidance for specific trades or on the liability of certain supplies . |
| 7 | In the absence of other acceptable proposals or of the will on the part of government to override opposition to such proposals as existed , shortage of revenue remained an obstacle to central government action and was acutely worsened by the high cost of the Boer War which opened in 1899 . |
| 8 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 9 | Courses may also be advertised in local jobcentres and public libraries or on the display boards of local employment agencies . |
| 10 | The work of the committees of the council is always the subject of report to the council in some form , either as a report of what the committee has done under delegated powers or by the submission for the approval of the council of the recommendations of the committee . |
| 11 | At the end of June a UN spokesman stated that the Iraqi report contained new information but no details of foreign suppliers or of the number of ballistic weapons Iraq had used . |
| 12 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 13 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 14 | The German Ideology makes no detailed references to specific studies of primitive societies or to the work of anthropologist . |
| 15 | personal contacts have also improved : one Soviet commentator reports that ‘ In the past , visits of Soviet and Latin American businessmen to each other for commercial talks or for an appraisal of export and import requirements were incidental ; nowadays hundreds of businessmen and experts from Latin America come to the Soviet Union each year and as many Soviet specialists visit the Latin American countries ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , pp. 11–12 ) . |
| 16 | Both are sold in pre-packed wedges or from the cutting counter . |
| 17 | This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way . |
| 18 | Exports to Lithuania undertaken by private companies or on the initiative of Lithuanian emigré organizations were also likely to prove logistically impossible , since Lithuania 's borders and customs posts remained under Soviet administration . |
| 19 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 20 | It is evident that the third defendant and the third party are not , on any view of the case , joint contractors or joint tortfeasors or in a relationship where contribution is available under equitable principles . |
| 21 | Countries with balance of payments problems — in the sense of having requirements for official financing which put a strain on official reserves or on the capacity to borrow abroad on reasonable terms — have had to resort to traditional defensive measures in such circumstances . |
| 22 | 8.1 The Department is committed to support any member of staff who is assaulted either whilst carrying out their official duties or as a consequence of official duties . |
| 23 | Available as separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 24 | Available in separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 25 | If so , as joint auditors or with the right to review the audit ? |
| 26 | Actions may be commenced by or against partners in their own individual names or in the name of the firm . |
| 27 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
| 28 | In the northern states , whether in the sphere of education , in official files or for the purpose of business , Hindi has largely displaced English . |
| 29 | Take part as a speaker and listener in a group discussion of straightforward issues or in a group activity , commenting on what is being discussed . |
| 30 | the searcher may be the end user , possibly approaching the search in some ignorance of his real requirements or of the literature that might be available to meet those requirements . |