Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were established to serve specific regional or industry needs whilst others enabled small domestically-orientated banks in various countries to participate collectively in the euro-currency markets . |
| 2 | The study of social policy has been particularly conspicuous for the specific political or value commitments of those who write about it . |
| 3 | Once a certain amount of market position has been lost , retrieval is very difficult indeed , and usually is only possible through some outstanding technical or production achievement . |
| 4 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
| 5 | New entrants to private residential or nursing home care will not be funded via the social security system . |
| 6 | The second lumen opened just beyond the pylorus and was used for pulse instillations of normal saline or acid into the duodenal lumen . |
| 7 | Or they may be isolated from supportive social or family networks and have problem-related health problems such as HIV , hepatitis , TB , and mental health problems . |
| 8 | What is clear is that civic or community pride — essential if urban decline is not to turn into urban collapse — and the view of local government as an honourable profession , can not survive unless the public service which local authorities provide rests on principles of local democracy . |
| 9 | Once formed , these fractures may remain open for months or years providing low stress paths where magma may intrude passively with little seismic or ground deformation ; only gravity changes can detect the mass increase . |
| 10 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 11 | The second category concerns one of the most characteristic classes of small towns , the so-called linear or ribbon developments , where the main occupation is confined to the frontages of a single main through route . |
| 12 | Of these some would inevitably have been admitted to long-stay residential or hospital care , but perhaps 80 would still be living in the community , 30–40 on their own . |
| 13 | Czerkas suspected they may not have been , as generally assumed , muddy brown or bivouac green , but daubed with patches of colour around their bodies at strategic spots . |
| 14 | Dworkin 's theory of adjudication makes it clear that the function of the courts is limited to that of reaching decisions based upon arguments of principle , that is , arguments which justify a decision by showing that it secures or respects some individual or group right . |
| 15 | This actual or potential favouring of one 's own interests over and above those of another is a common facet of modern-day life . |
| 16 | Slaves in North America had few civil or property rights . |
| 17 | FIGURE 1 I nearly always start drawing the ‘ bones ’ of the picture with a small brush dipped in a light cerulean or cobalt blue — ultramarine is too strong a colour , and I roughly mark out windows , table , plant etc |
| 18 | Possible swap for interesting electric or acoustic . |
| 19 | But you 've retained that particular quirky beauty that calls to something in me , some random or rogue streak , and this time I 'm answering . |
| 20 | What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success . |
| 21 | Thus in a case such as Anisminic one would say , inter alia , that if there is property in Egypt , which belongs to a British national or successor in title at the relevant dates , which has been seized , the FCC shall award compensation . |
| 22 | Most of the top-flight executive search consultants who now operate at the very top end of the market have developed their search careers by some functional or industry specialisation and there is evidence that this will continue to be an important factor . |
| 23 | In every case the money , unless it is stuffed into socks and put under the mattress , gets spent on some good or service and therefore , according to compensation theory , creates a series of new jobs in the industries providing these products . |
| 24 | The House rejected , it is submitted quite correctly , an argument that the refusal of the English courts to enforce foreign penal or revenue law precluded the English court from giving the assistance requested ; to provide evidence which is to be used in foreign proceedings , even enforcement proceedings , is not to ‘ enforce ’ the foreign law in England . |
| 25 | However , in new firms , or in firms in which there is not an established union , the union may not form unless it can provide an excludable good or agency service that is increasing in membership . |
| 26 | Further problems may arise again on return to Britain as the pressure for places in the more popular independent or state schools makes it increasingly difficult for the expatriate to find suitable educational facilities for children . |
| 27 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
| 28 | The single oven , including an electronic clock , auto-timer and minute minder , caters for both full-width radiant or economy grilling . |
| 29 | Station CBR broadcast part of the output of the CBC national network from 6am to midnight , and for a few hour-long or half-hour periods each day , the feed was reversed , and CBR fed programmes to the network . |
| 30 | And yet , cruising the crowd for those overheards that can often give clues to the deeper meaning of an occasion , it became clear that one or two paying punters , a few common or garden turnstile cowboys , had slipped in through the security net . |