Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] or [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this long-term view the weight of employment moves from the primary sector to the secondary sector and then to the tertiary or service sector . |
| 2 | Like free spirits they move to the off or leg side , improvising and manufacturing strokes . |
| 3 | If the batsman moves either to the off or leg side to improvise a stroke , they must be able to redirect their line — to follow his movement — even though they are in the very act of delivering the ball . |
| 4 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 5 | Sometimes used as an alternative expression for the field , but generally applied to the underlying or background colour of any part of the rug ( e.g. , a blue-ground border ) . |
| 6 | Cost control should not be limited to the conceptual or design phase alone . |
| 7 | The Personal Computer Direct Marketers ' Association , PCDMA , is the brainchild of sales and marketing consultant Keith Warburton , and includes not only companies that sell hardware direct to the corporate or business user , but also ‘ off-the-page ’ systems integrators , value-added resellers and dealers . |
| 8 | To obtain a loan , applicants must belong to a professional or trade group of 15 people . |
| 9 | 4.20 Where clients are thought to be or are known to be a risk or danger to themselves , other clients or other people and are admitted to a residential or day care facility , their progress must be explicitly monitored by the officer in charge who should keep the line manager informed . |
| 10 | These situations include : episodes of rapid growth , e.g. puberty ; pregnancy ; breast-feeding ; prolonged adherence to a weight-loss programme ; adherence to a very restricted or fad diet ; adherence to a vegetarian or vegan diet , unless it is well balanced ; old age ; taking long-term drugs , such as steroids , diuretics ( water tablets ) , anti-epileptic drugs , and possibly the oral contraceptive pill . |
| 11 | The book is similarly cursory in its treatment of style ( a term that is never defined by the writer ) with not much attention given to a formal or material analysis of the work . |
| 12 | There is , of course , a major difference between people who hold most of their wealth in land , or stocks and shares and government bonds , or even gold , compared with those whose ‘ wealth ’ is predominantly bound up in their right to an occupational or state pension . |