Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 2 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 3 | Add to that the probability of either Britain 's first black Tory MP , or the first Liberal Democrat gain of election night and it 's easy to see why Cheltenham has grabbed the imagination of the political pundits . |
| 4 | In between each pressing required to extract the cuvée ( or the first 2,050 litres ) an operation called retroussage , meaning ‘ to turn up ’ or ‘ to tuck up ’ , is carried out . |
| 5 | The 1798–9 version of The Prelude ( or the first two books ) may be read at this point , and if the reader finds more to enjoy in the narrative sections this is entirely appropriate since they appear to have been written as separate entities and only later blended into a single poem . |
| 6 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 7 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 8 | Now of course there is the there is the spin off as well , that you can get some mileage out of the winning school or the first three , by inviting them here or visiting them and so forth , |
| 9 | MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange . |
| 10 | The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year . |
| 11 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 12 | The next three classes beneath the class — the Sahn , the and the — also may choose kadiliks or the next higher rank of medrese , but in these cases the option of choosing a kadilik is expressed in variants of the following phrase : " if [ the muderrises ] become poor and choose office [ as kadi ] … " , the implication of which is that they would not otherwise do so . |
| 13 | Unanimity , or the next best thing , a decision which no one actually opposes , is not unknown , especially in relatively small groups or communities . |
| 14 | That , or the next best is er Simple Soap shampoo . |
| 15 | In the course of the evening or the next few days you may come across some new information or viewpoint relating to the lecture that you attended . |
| 16 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 17 | We need an injection off money from somewhere to spend on 2/3 quality players plus strengthening the squad with a couple of decent reserves or the next few seassons are going to be like this until the youth side is mature enough to carry the burden . |
| 18 | It ca n't be blamed on the unions or the last Labour Government . |
| 19 | Richard Branson gave some hundred press interviews , sipping discreetly at his champagne , acutely conscious of being , in his own phrase , ‘ on duty ’ , while the majority of passengers , blissfully unaware of the dramas of the last forty-eight hours — or the last four months — drank themselves into a condition of happy oblivion . |
| 20 | Was the man the last Minoan king or the last Minoan high-priest of Knossos ? |
| 21 | This was a topical point as Faldo is currently ‘ up in the air ’ on whether he will play in the American Nabisco Grand Prix or the last European event , the Volvo Masters . |
| 22 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 23 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 24 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 25 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 26 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 27 | After infection , the egg hatches in the small intestine and the L2 travels to the liver , where the first parasitic moult takes place . |
| 28 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5 , where the first few pixels are more widely spaced simply to fit everything into the diagram . |
| 29 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
| 30 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |