Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former . |
| 2 | If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ? |
| 3 | So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation . |
| 4 | Constitutionally Britain is a unitary state — not a federation like the United States or the former West Germany , where separate geographical units have reserved powers and can act independently within constitutional limits . |
| 5 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 6 | Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance , the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines . |
| 7 | SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES — OR THE ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL WAY TO RUIN TWO GREAT INSTITUTIONS |
| 8 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 9 | Clash them within the same sweater , or the same dress . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Not more than four occasional permissions may be granted by a licensing board in any one year on behalf of the same voluntary organisation or the same branch of a voluntary organisation . |
| 11 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 12 | When , as has often happened , two biologists describe different species under the same name ( or the same species under different names ) the work that was published first takes precedence-but the buck stops at Linnaeus ( 1758 ) , the tenth edition of Systema Naturae . |
| 13 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 14 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 15 | Upper panel : Percentage of chloramphenicol acetylated following transfection of BHK-21 cells or HeLa cells with pBL 2 CAT vector ( V ) or the same vector with a single copy of the HPV 16 octamer and adjacent NF1 site ( 16 ) or the equivalent region of HPV6 ( 6 ) . |
| 16 | Thus , to continue with the example , different processes , or the same processes with different magnitudes , may well operate between volunteers , draftees and those with no military experience . |
| 17 | Short circuits are fine but they just do n't generate the same interest or the same type of nail biting racing , do they ? |
| 18 | We generally rehearse either the day before or the same day , so it 's all very fresh . ’ |
| 19 | No two languages have exactly the same set of phonemes , the same combinations of phonemes , or the same variants of phonemes . |
| 20 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 21 | It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour . |
| 22 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 23 | Sexual acts outside marriage are wrong , whether between those of opposite or the same sex . |
| 24 | Precedent has been laid down that cause for separation lies where a spouse resorts to " unnatural practices " with a third party and , perhaps , where a spouse submits to " indecent liberties " by a person of the opposite or the same sex ( Mogg v. |
| 25 | You might see brightly coloured clothes or long hair but at least you do n't see the same shoes , the same jeans or the same jackets by the same designer . |
| 26 | Or the same powers of deduction . |
| 27 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 28 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 29 | Or the same person in another skin . |
| 30 | No two speakers of English ( or any other language ) have the entirely the same vocabulary or the same pronunciation . |