Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 2 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
| 3 | Superb photographs illustrate the remarkable life-cycles of ferns and their close relatives , and their extraordinary adaptability — for example , ferns growing in impenetrable mangrove swamps or between the boulders of the Mexican desert . |
| 4 | The increased use of personal computers means that files of secret information may be left lying around on a cassette or floppy disc in unlocked offices or at the homes of executives . |
| 5 | You could divide your plot into squares or like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 6 | From there , it is delivered to shops or to the warehouses of other record companies . |
| 7 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 8 | Parents and governors , on the other side , know what they are told , what they sense through adult contact with schools or through the reports of children and the family . |
| 9 | The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP . |
| 10 | Families in the rural areas or in the countries of emigration may provide financial assistance for some of their unmarried males to travel many hundreds of miles to seek employment . |
| 11 | Brown can choose selective stock checks — concentrating either on particular commodities or on the contents of one larder . |
| 12 | Although they vary either in their particular concerns or in the foci of their campaigns — even the Responsible Society , which states that it does not take part in demonstrations and public protests , campaigns through its literature — it was ‘ permissiveness ’ or their particular interpretation or conception of permissiveness that was the galvanizing force behind their development . |
| 13 | Global ozone depletion by CFCs may be offset in part by natural effects or by the effects of other pollutants . |
| 14 | Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 16 | It was held that all the requirements of section 2 of the Factors Act were complied with including the requirement that the mercantile agent be in possession of goods or of the documents of title with the consent of ‘ the owner . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Where a person , having sold goods , continues , or is , in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods , the delivery or transfer by that person , or by a mercantile agent acting for him , of the goods or documents of title under any sale , pledge , or other disposition thereof , or under any agreement for sale , pledge or other disposition thereof , to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale , shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same . ’ |
| 18 | The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets . |
| 19 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 20 | Unless there is to be a capital reduction of Target , the buy-in of shares must for company law purposes be effected out of Target 's distributable profits or from the proceeds of the issue of new shares . |
| 21 | During chemical reactions , there is always a dispersal of energy either from the chemical system to its surroundings or from the surroundings to the chemical system . |
| 22 | In many cases however there is , as yet , no clear understanding of the energetics of such deformations or of the mechanisms of associated structural transitions . |
| 23 | I slept in graveyards or along the steps of the churches and woke hollow-eyed and sick with hunger to the oaths of the men-at-arms , the mocking jeers of cheapjacks and mountebanks , the clatter of hooves and the crazy jangle and flurry of hundreds of city bells . |
| 24 | The most conspicuous financial gains by English combatants were made in the earlier phase of the Anglo-French wars or in the wars with Scotland — the esquire John Coupland , who captured David 11 of Scotland in 1346 , received lands worth £500 a year and the status of banneret , and many in the English army at Poitiers in 1356 received rich rewards ( 88 , p.30 ) . |
| 25 | He found that the use of this weighting factor gave a better indicator of quality than the numbers of citations or of the numbers of papers published . |
| 26 | There are also changes to COSHH Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 , the main effect of which is that the use of benzene is prohibited except in industrial processes or for the purposes of research , development and analysis . |
| 27 | It is this which establishes the control of the people over their political leaders or of the shareholders over their directors . |
| 28 | The capital sum would have been paid indirectly to the settlor ( see the case of Potts v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 443 especially at 460 where Lord Oaksey states : having regard to the object of the statute I think the words " paid directly or indirectly to the settlor " should be held to mean paid into the settlor 's hands or into the hands of someone accountable to him ) . |
| 29 | Always put the cleaner first onto a clean , lint-free cloth to stop fluids getting into ventilation slots or between the keys of the keyboard . |
| 30 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |