Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tickets were produced en masse , though certain coffin-makers and funeral furnishers are known to have commissioned their own designs , with a central cartouche for the printed or hand-written details announcing the name of the deceased and the place , date and time of the funeral . |
| 2 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 3 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 4 | You have plenty of good ideas about how things can be changed for the better or how your home can be improved , modernised or beautified . |
| 5 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 6 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 7 | For the 200 or so who attended , everyone appeared to have been unanimous in believing that the scheme had been wholly beneficial in broadening cultural life in villages . |
| 8 | Finally abandoning M3 , the medium-term financial strategy , and other totems , he strongly urged major cuts in public expenditure and extensive cuts in personal taxation to offer incentives for the rich or the would-be rich . |
| 9 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 10 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 12 | Returning to his table he began it again , for the ninth or tenth time . |
| 13 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 14 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 15 | If this is the case do n't immediately reach for the reset or on/off button because there might be nothing at all wrong . |
| 16 | In the 1920s , generally all state schools — whether for the deaf or for those with normal hearing — had conditions which were grim . |
| 17 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 18 | Are your holidays suitable for the disabled or those wit a serious medical condition ? |
| 19 | The unsanitary condition of almost every orphanage or home for the disabled or mental asylum is striking testimony to the distorted priorities of the regime . |
| 20 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 21 | an acknowledgement , and acknowledgement in a manner to be agreed , if that really is , I mean if we put our twenty thousand pounds to pay for the lift for the disabled or something like that , |
| 22 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 23 | Beware of swing sequences that show the late hit of the hands , as illustrated in Diagram A. This position at halfway in the downswing may be ideal for the skilled or powerful player , because the hands and lower arms will still release early enough to return the clubface squarely to the back of the ball . |
| 24 | I know that the number of black athletes running for London Irish causes some amusement but the club is absolutely ideal for the young or up-and-coming athlete , and the people who run it deserve a lot of credit . |
| 25 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 26 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 27 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 28 | The legislation now allows for the temporary or permanent modification of statements ( and in the case of non-statemented special needs pupils , to make temporary exceptions ) . |
| 29 | It is clear that HS5A and HS5B are not required for the tissue-specific or temporal regulation of the gene contrary to what has been suggested previously ( 28 ) because the -300bp promoter when linked to a gene which lacks HS5A and HS5B is still expressed correctly . |
| 30 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |