Example sentences of "or [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The picture plane is further stressed by the device of dropping the small doors or openings below the bases of the buildings , and by the way in which some of the forms are opened up into each other and fused .
2 A major problem in lexical access concerns the registration of the input descriptions , whether they be phonemes , diphones or syllables against the representations in the lexicon .
3 Unexpected swelling , pain or tenderness in the groin or insides of the tops of the thighs .
4 It is unwise to blame people or countries for the origins of the virus .
5 At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally .
6 All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation .
7 The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services .
8 Students living away from home are required to register with a doctor as they may require medical treatment at night or weekends outside the times of normal surgeries .
9 It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions .
10 Do not put piles of books or magazines up the sides of the stairs .
11 Rather than simply sampling at random , it is helpful to make some preliminary enquiries among the child 's parents or teachers regarding the kinds of situations in which she is most likely to talk .
12 The jurisdiction existed as an appellate jurisdiction if an uncalled member of an Inn , who used to be called an ‘ inner barrister ’ from the position he occupied on the forms or barrae in the halls of his Inn : see ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ by Bolland , 24 L.Q.R. 392 , 399 , was aggrieved when his Inn refused to permit him to be called to the ‘ utter bar : ’ Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug .
13 In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords .
14 It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered .
15 Central supervision of the Poor Law operated both through the regional inspectorate who supervised the locally elected administrators , the Boards of Guardians of each Poor Law Union , and submitted annual reports to the LGB , and also through circulars or memoranda to the Boards of Guardians .
16 But the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , which outlaws direct or indirect discrimination and victimisation against men or women on the grounds of sex or marital status , has a much broader scope .
17 It was manifest that the powers under section 39 overrode the duty of confidence , in particular having regard to the requirements of Schedule 3 , where breach of customers ' confidence was inevitable , for example when disclosing loans or deposits for the purposes of that Schedule ; the same applied to disclosure of large exposures under section 38 .
18 To simplify : it might happen that there is no significant difference in terms of one social variable ( such as class ) , but that this statistic conceals other differences or similarities within the results in terms of other social variables ( such as age or sex ) .
19 Parties in actions other than the lead actions shall be at liberty to incorporate in their pleadings such part or parts of the pleadings in the lead actions as they may wish to adopt .
20 The first is to start with a clean sheet of paper and design all or parts of the operations of a company in the best way possible .
21 Agricultural produce flowed into it from the surrounding rural territory , some from estates which seem to have been owned by the temple , the rest in the form of tribute or offerings from the owners of private estates .
22 Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore .
23 The essence of the idea of ‘ measurement focus ’ is , to put it straightforwardly , that by adopting the ‘ flow of financial resources ’ a governmental organization can adopt ‘ accrual accounting ’ in its operating statement ( that is , it can ‘ recognize the effects of transactions or events on the resources of an entity when they take place , regardless of when cash is received or paid ’ ) but does not have to charge depreciation .
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