Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems .
2 There is little talk of film as ‘ film ’ , television as ‘ television ’ or of the two forms as different but connected social processes .
3 At the time , and indeed until much later , I had no knowledge of Mrs Castle 's objections or of the many discussions that had taken place on this subject at government level .
4 Clearly he was not an opponent of royal authority , or of secular policies , or of the warlike activities that these policies required , or even of Rufus himself .
5 Dr Glasser holds that alcoholism is a very real , concrete , disease rather than a disease of the human spirit or of the abstract senses but his understanding of alcoholism , based upon his practical experience as a general clinical psychiatrist , with no specific interest in the subject of alcoholism more than in any other , again fits closely with the expressed understanding in " Alcoholics Anonymous " and the experience of treatment centres using the Minnesota Method .
6 Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured .
7 Our minds ca n't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in , but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols .
8 Persons disabled by war or in the armed forces and those disabled at work as a result of injury or prescribed industrial disease have for many years enjoyed reasonable financial provision .
9 But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death .
10 But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed .
11 Fluid excess may occur in the post-operative period , and presents problems if the excess fluid is retained within the cells or in the vital organs as central and pulmonary oedema .
12 There is , however , always the problem of knowing whether the fault in the mediation process lies in the validity of the principle or in the particular techniques that have been used to operationalize it .
13 In addition , two other courses are taken which may be chosen from a wide range of other science subjects or from the Social Sciences or Arts .
14 At night , after dinner , it is very pleasant to stroll from hotel to hotel or to the many bars and small restaurants or , later , to the discothèques .
15 Do you need to be or have access to the railway station or to the main roads or anything like that ?
16 There will be an outing to Weymouth on Thursday , September 3rd , names to be given to the secretary , and an outing is to be organised in June to Harvey 's of Bristol or to the Royal Mews and Queen 's Gallery .
17 The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition .
18 Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering .
19 Er , you must then go through the month and work out , either on the monthly calendar card , or on the daily pages when you 're actually going to do this stuff on this list .
20 Whether viewed from the high road , or across the low fences and stone ditches and grassy banks of the surrounding farms , the ruin of Slains looks familiar .
21 As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond .
22 For the small producer , subcontracting to a TNC , the system is prohibitively expensive and the expertise required to run it is considerable , so it tends to be controlled by TNCs , or by the gargantuan retailers that they supply .
23 Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area .
24 Already by the mid 1970s it appeared , however , that neutralisation under Great Power guarantees as elaborated by Malaysia was acceptable neither to the majority of Southeast Asian states nor to the external powers that count .
25 I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike .
26 Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on .
27 There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders .
28 A wedge was to be driven between the political parties and the UDA and between the rural paramilitaries and the UDA .
29 We have a lot to do in communications among ourselves and between the different disciplines and different complementary approaches .
30 In my opinion , the sooner that we return to serious discussion about the government of the Province , and about the other considerations that were invested in the earlier talks , the better the people of Northern Ireland will be served .
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