Example sentences of "from [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After your second or third mortgage , you may feel ready to branch out from the standard endowment or repayment mortgage .
2 In The Old Curiosity Shop little Nell tentatively asks if she and her grandfather may rest in one of a ‘ cluster of labourer 's huts ’ , a good five miles from the nearest town or village .
3 The declaration must be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and can be obtained from the chief executive or clerk of the authority .
4 The newly-elected councillor should make it his duty to find out how committees are elected and this information will be readily obtained from the chief executive or clerk of the authority .
5 He can obtain from the chief executive or clerk of the authority an appropriate form and this will then save him from making repeated disclosures at any time when any matter in which he or his wife is interested is being discussed .
6 They discovered that compromises had to be made between the descriptive criteria of frequency and range of language items and pedagogic criteria which were adduced from the assumed purpose or process of learning ( see Mackey 1965 : Chapter 6 ; Widdowson 1968 : Chapter 1 ) .
7 The signal from the personal stereo or radio is applied to TR1 base via capacitor , C1 .
8 For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) .
9 DNA subclones and probes used in this work were isolated and subcloned from the appropriate cosmid or plasmid into Bluescript ( Stratagene ) following established techniques ( 34 ) .
10 From the first suspicion or disclosure of abuse to the criminal trial of the alleged perpetrator , children pass through a spectrum of services and professionals .
11 The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline .
12 The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century .
13 The voice is a flexible instrument , and in the past a singer was expected to decorate the music suitably and with taste , varying from the occasional grace-note or appoggiatura to effects of coloratura virtuosity .
14 Continued abstinence from the primary substance or process of addiction .
15 Check report book and diary for any comments about residents from the previous day or night shift .
16 Cells from the hind brain or medulla ( the rat PC 12 line ) have been associated with habituation , or a decreased response to repeated stimulation .
17 The word is apparently derived from the Germanic dotter or yolk of egg , which is roughly the colour of the common European dodder , and is now used as a common name for all species belonging to the genus Cuscuta .
18 The undersize was wheeled to the hopper feeding the stamp heads , with a supply of water , and the coarsely pounded stuff was then washed in a buddle or jig , the heavier sulphide ore separating from the lighter gangue or waste .
19 In eighteenth-century England there was , in comparison with other countries , a large section of the population which could be described as neither rich nor poor , ranging from the prosperous shopkeeper or yeoman farmer to the skilled artisan in full employment .
20 The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain .
21 Well , excuse me , but I thought a derby was between two teams from the same town or city .
22 They understand that everything must be fought for and earned , from the next meal or mortgage payment to respect from neighbours , friends and families .
23 This meant there was less likely to be a change of mind from the old lady or daughter .
24 Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) .
25 The imbalance thus spreads out from the initial focus or storm centre .
26 The carer learns how to dress the patient in the right way from the occupational therapist or physiotherapist .
27 The patient may also need to practise being a passenger in the car : getting in and out may be difficult , so you may need help from the occupational therapist or physiotherapist to find the easiest way of managing .
28 ‘ In point of fact , the hegemonic function has often been distinct from the governing class or function , and is so today in certain social formations . ’
29 If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk .
30 Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various .
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