Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will deal with the problems involved in regarding the way of non-violence as an absolute rule , or infallible guide to conduct , or as the right way in all circumstances without exception , in a later chapter on ahi sā . |
| 2 | Women living alone , or as the sole wage-earner in an all-female household , or widows with children were invisible , though statistically by no means insignificant . |
| 3 | This unit will be conducted by Mrs Chris Smith , Pastoral Director at Ushaw , and people are welcome to attend this as a complete course in its own right , or as the first stage in the longer course which contains five further units . |
| 4 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 5 | Or of the heated conversation in a pub or restaurant ? |
| 6 | The relatively sudden rise of xenophobic parties , or of the xenophobic issue in politics , is largely due to this . |
| 7 | This means that , as part of an internal market , hospitals would trade with one another , with self-governing hospitals or with the private sector in order to provide their patients with the best treatment available . |
| 8 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |
| 9 | It has also become evident from recent literature that there was nothing like a " simultaneous " extinction of many different groups , either within the brachiopods alone or within the organic world in general , at the end of the Permian ; I am told that plant spores , at least , still show an uncannily rapid change at this level all round the world , though the big change in plant macrofossils seems to have come much later . |
| 10 | All the officers , except Dias himself and two others , sought asylum either with the British Consul ( and went on board the London ) or in the neutral zone in the hotels . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN ABLE will check that the module is contained as a CONTAINS-SOURCE-OF relation in a user-supplied package ( if any ) or in the latest issue in LIFESPAN of the package through which the DC has been activated . |
| 12 | The foot soldiers , however , did not benefit from looted oriental mail , or from the Western revolution in home manufacture . |
| 13 | If it was felt that these conditions would be insufficient to prevent ‘ serious public disorder ’ , then the chief officer could apply for a banning order — from the Home Secretary in London , or from the local council in any other part of the country . |
| 14 | With or without the best will in the world they add substantial fuel to the fires of our " obsession " . |
| 15 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 16 | But if that paradigm seems untrue , to her or to the scientific community in which she works , it can be jettisoned in favour of a new construction of reality . |
| 17 | The position appears to be beyond question as a result of the decision of the House of Lords in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , and in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , s9 makes clear that a clause may be judged reasonable , and enforceable , even though the contract has been terminated either by the breach , or by the innocent party in response to the breach . |
| 18 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 19 | Numerous analyses leave no doubt that the scale of these changes can not be explained by any combination of relative adjustments within the context of post-war international economic recovery , the emergence of new industrial nations , the vigorous operation of comparative advantage within a high growth of trade , or by the substantial increase in semi-manufactures [ Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 20 | Caused by an excessive contraction of the head and neck muscles experienced as orgasm approaches , or by the accompanying rise in blood pressure , they 're more common in men than women , and may also occur during other sorts of physical exertion . |
| 21 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 22 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 23 | I could n't spell and about the only time in your life you 're not allowed to use a dictionary is in an English ‘ O ’ level exam . ’ |
| 24 | I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded . |
| 25 | The neglect of these important questions to which Keynes attempted to provide answers could , to some extent , account for the recent disenchantment with the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic theory and for the parallel reaction in the form of the rise of new classical macroeconomics . |
| 26 | The margin of 425 runs was the largest runs victory West Indies have had over England , and for the only time in Test cricket Extras had a bigger match aggregate ( 44 ) than any batsman . |
| 27 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 28 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 29 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 30 | And for the second time in ten minutes the man showered . |