Example sentences of "the [adj] or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local ethical scepticism , for instance , tends very quickly to spread out and become a general scepticism about the unobserved or about the possibility of scientific knowledge . |
| 2 | By s.21(1) , above , the gain or loss need not be for the accused or to the victim . |
| 3 | Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed . |
| 4 | Tiles can be laid on the diagonal or in a basket weave design to produce handsome effects . |
| 5 | ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes . |
| 6 | The habituated OR to the light did not return when this stimulus was presented in the other context ( context B in the figure ) , that is , habituation transferred across contexts . |
| 7 | Using the behavioural OR as an index of the value of α should not be taken to imply a belief that α is the sole determinant of this OR . |
| 8 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |