Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the textual or discourse structure of English . |
| 2 | But Campbell Scott has arrived with his accent ready shaped — an unlocatable , non-descript English that neatly sidesteps the posh or Cockney axis that characterizes most American attempts . |
| 3 | Gallaudet , a firm believer of the combined system , and by leading deaf people like George Healey of Liverpool , and by experienced teachers or missioners of the deaf in favour of the combined or sign system like Elliott , Welsh , Rhind were all largely dismissed or ignored in the Report 's recommendations , which were in essence that the Pure Oral system should be used to educate the deaf and that teachers for the deaf should be properly qualified , experienced in teaching in ordinary schools , and be in possession of all their faculties . |
| 4 | Third , an historical analysis also serves to illustrate how a narrow section of the press — the political or quality press — has had a continuing fascination with , and attraction to , the centres of legitimate political power and those who exercise it ; moreover , the relationship between the triumvirate of politicians , proprietors and editors — namely , those who exercise political power and those who seek to bask in the afterglow of the exercise of that power — was never fixed . |
| 5 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 6 | In this long-term view the weight of employment moves from the primary sector to the secondary sector and then to the tertiary or service sector . |
| 7 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 8 | an advertisement in the technical or trade press . |
| 9 | If your profession involves architecture , cartography or professional illustration in either the technical or science field then this will be £165 very well spent indeed . |
| 10 | The apical or luminal surface is non-adhesive , the lateral surface is specialised for adhesion to adjacent cells , and the basal surface is specialised for adhesion to the underlying matrix , the basement membrane . |
| 11 | The childhood supplement does not provide detailed information about the economic or household characteristics of the 61445 children classified as unoccupied on the basis of information from a 10% sample of the 1981 census . |
| 12 | There is increased recognition that concentrating limited national training resources at the professional or university level is not likely to have much impact on the service needs of people at the grass roots . |
| 13 | Journal literature is very widespread indeed and any researcher may find himself having to read not only in an academic subject area but also in the professional or trade journals too . |
| 14 | In most European countries collective bargaining , whether conducted at the regional or district level , involved a group of enterprises rather than individual firms or plants . |
| 15 | Baptists and Congregationalists encourage the incorporation of property in the regional or County Union and the Wesleyan Methodist Church ( now combined with the Congregationalists in the United Reformed Church ) usually prefers the system of local personal trustees . |
| 16 | A similar argument can be advanced in connection with the feudal or estate system of medieval Europe . |
| 17 | Perhaps ‘ salvation by grace , experienced in listening to the preaching or reading of the biblical word , and in affirming the literal interpretation of that word ’ might be a better if clumsier phrase . |
| 18 | These libraries had been used as a means to circumvent a restrictive loan policy applied in the main library , which clearly lacked support from the scientific or library staff within the departments . |
| 19 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 20 | The raw material of his experience was transmuted into story — for whether he was working in the poetic or prose medium , Masefield was above all a story-teller . |
| 21 | When the cellarman judges that the beer is in perfect condition , he or she hammers a tap through the wooden or plastic keystone in the tap hole of the cask . |
| 22 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 23 | A moralistic middle-class press or the civic or football authorities themselves would never have ignored systematic gang-violence either in football grounds or around them . |
| 24 | Variously suggested as Iraqi motives for causing the slick were ( i ) the desire to impede any allied amphibious assault on the Kuwaiti or south Iraqi shore as part of a ground offensive ; ( ii ) the intention of damaging Saudi coastal installations ; and ( iii ) the hope of provoking the allies into launching a full-scale ground offensive ahead of their preferred schedule . |
| 25 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 26 | is available in two versions , the Popular or Standard . |
| 27 | By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) . |
| 28 | Trade unions have a vested interest in the success of the commercial or government organisation to which their members belong because unless this organisation prospers , the security and rewards of their members will be restricted . |
| 29 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 30 | Some newsagents will agree for a small fee to do a mail drop with the daily or evening papers . |