Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , in the rat uterus big endothelin-1 is only one-seventh as active as endothelin-1 ( ) , suggesting that this tissue is a particularly active and/or rich enzyme source , for in isolated vascular preparations there is usually some 100–300-fold difference in potency |
| 2 | You should have a PhD , awarded not more than 3 years ago , in the field of computer science , mathematics or systems engineering especially in artificial intelligence and mathematical optimisation studies , neural networks , robots and/or geographic information systems studies . |
| 3 | Full records contained up to five elements : AUTHOR ( which includes any added names , personal or corporate ) , TITLE ( including any subtitle , series title , part title ) , PUBLICATION ( publisher(s) , edition , date ) , SUBJECT ( Library of Congress and/or Preserved Context Indexing System headings ) and location information ( including classmark ) . |
| 4 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 5 | Country and/or regional case studies |
| 6 | Balloon-or cigar-shaped market places in new towns are relatively common , as it was one of the easiest ways to create an open space along an existing main road . |
| 7 | Many have complex option features , related not only to the share price — as with warrants and convertibles — but possibly to interest rates and/or foreign exchange rates if the instrument includes issuer call or investor put features . |
| 8 | If the government is to achieve a balance in the accounts in a current account deficit , it means either borrowing from abroad or reducing the government 's stocks of gold and/or foreign exchange reserves . |
| 9 | Using this technique these workers reported a right field advantage both with unilateral and with bilateral word presentation and attributed their results to " greater transmission fidelity and/or lesser transmission time of the shorter pathway to the left , verbal , hemisphere ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ) . |
| 10 | This can be measured in terms of its domestic and transnational political organization , direct and indirect TNC interference in host country politics and the extent to which these constrain and are constrained by the domestic and/or transnational labour movement . |
| 11 | The sum saved is based on a calculation of the average community service costs of all relevant clients at six month and/or 12 month assessment . |
| 12 | Operatives who have never previously held factory jobs need to be trained , expatriates are replaced with indigenous managerial and technical personnel , and indigenous capacity springs up in unfamiliar and/or high technology industries . |
| 13 | It does this by a process called dithering which takes two or more colours from the 16 or 256 colour palette available and places them side by side to give the impression of another colour . |
| 14 | Families on supplementary benefit , now income support , are likely to borrow to buy items of clothing or durable household goods . |
| 15 | By defining the object of policy in spatial terms the contradictory interests represented may be understandably subsumed in a real or imagined community identity which stems from or reproduces the notion of shared interests ( see Sue Buckingham-Hatfield 's case study in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 17 | This is driven by economics and the yen , closely followed by the ecu or European Currency Unit , has displaced the dollar as the world 's most important currency . |
| 18 | On new American or European subject areas it works very poorly . ’ |
| 19 | ( b ) The prohibition in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule shall not apply to prevent a solicitor who is qualified as a lawyer of a jurisdiction other than England or Wales , patent agent , trade mark agent or European patent attorney from having a separate practice as such ; and such a practice shall not be subject to the provisions of sub-paragraphs ( 3 ) ( a ) and ( b ) of this rule . |
| 20 | ( The remaining 4% , though formally within his responsibility too , was in practice for programmes determined by United Kingdom or European Community policies . ) |
| 21 | The report of Planning , Industrial and Economic Development Advisers , which was prepared for British Rail , goes into more detail on that critical point : ’ Stratford is not strongly placed to attract high quality uses , such as corporate headquarters or European Community institutions . |
| 22 | Where technical law ends and political controversy begins is not always easy to determine . |
| 23 | Numerous studies are also cited where animals reared in an enriched or rich home environment were more successful problem solvers than those reared in impoverished environments or in laboratory cages . |
| 24 | ‘ If you 're up in London tomorrow — ’ Guy broke into the conversation calmly , having opted for a wedge of Virginia 's baked raisin cheesecake in preference to fresh strawberries , or rich chocolate gâteau , ‘ I 've got two tickets for the American Ballet Theatre . ’ |
| 25 | A low serum ferritin or low serum iron with raised total iron binding capacity is usually sufficient to confirm iron deficiency . |
| 26 | While there is a substantial mechanical input from the machine this is mainly in the form of water agitation , either from high or low water sprays , or from turbulent flow in circulation systems . |
| 27 | Starting from the far left , there are two inputs for either high or low output guitars , followed by the controls for channel one . |
| 28 | Surveys of less developed economies were , however , more confusing , with econometric studies suggesting that little of the growth in public spending could be explained' by rising incomes ( or low price elasticities ) . |
| 29 | Again , you should beware : some light fittings — such as fluorescent lights or low voltage transformers — generate a fair amount of ‘ noise ’ . |
| 30 | Meals are also provided for the children in the nursery as well as staff and patients in the medical centre where special diets like gluten-free or low cholesterol foods are often needed . |