Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [noun pl] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , structural limitation ‘ constitutes a pattern of determination in which some social structure establishes limits within which some other structure or process can vary , and establishes probabilities for the specific structures or processes that are possible within those limits ’ . |
| 2 | Send for the above offers or mail order details to : The Bradley Gallery . |
| 3 | Fabliau narrative is characteristically brief , and the plot is complicated and problematic only for some of the characters within the tales , not for the well-informed readers or audience of the piece . |
| 4 | The parties should consider Article 85 in transactions where either of the parties involved belongs to a corporate group with a turnover in excess of approximately £150 million or the vendor and the purchaser together enjoy 5 per cent or more of the total market for the relevant goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and one of the parties , normally the vendor , is accepting restrictive covenants . |
| 5 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 6 | Try to ignore the clutter and detail , and look for the central themes or metaphors . |
| 7 | By this time the day was warm and sunny , giving a chance for the final photographs or video recordings before a pleasant drive home . |
| 8 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 9 | Sukarno 's reply to this economic stagnation and disruption was again monumentalism : the national monument 110 metres high in Merdeka Square ; the Istiqlal Mosque , largest in South-East Asia ; the stadium for the Asian games or Ganefo ( Games of Newly Emerging Forces ) built by the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Save for the clandestine tracts or news-sheets of the Resistance or Underground , newspapers were rigorously controlled — by the German occupying forces in Paris and the north , and by Petain 's Vichy governments in the south . |
| 11 | It is relatively easy nowadays with a minimum of statistical or computational knowledge to use the facilities of a statistical package for computer analysis ( such as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences or Minitab ) to carry out a wide range of tests . |
| 12 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 13 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
| 14 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 15 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 16 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
| 17 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 18 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 19 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 20 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 21 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
| 22 | Those who could live on savings for a few weeks or months were ‘ that rare class ’ . |