Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until very recently the essential oil trade was almost exclusively confined to the perfume and flavours industries — where synthetic or nature identical substances were included without a second thought . |
| 2 | As Emmerson explained at the Seminar , banks typically only save information where legal or business requirements make the information necessary or useful . |
| 3 | Flexible lighting systems are also essential for conference and banqueting rooms , where practical or mood lighting must be considered . |
| 4 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 5 | This led to a further study where rt-PA or placebo were given first either outside the hospital or in the accident and emergency department of the hospital . |
| 6 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 8 | French industrialization had been slower than German or Belgian . |
| 9 | Deeper than English or French ; not foreign ; her own . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , our view of Japanese society is often supported by an underlying assumption that a tendency towards social consensus rather than social or class conflict , is what makes Japan different . |
| 11 | Whether the draftsman of sub-rule ( 3 ) had in mind the possibility that costs might , for contractual reasons , need to be taxed on some other basis than standard or indemnity seems to me doubtful . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process . |
| 13 | Not only does automation lead to a heightened sense of alienation , it also , Naville suggests , enables workers to obtain a better understanding of the real determinants of the pattern of authority relations prevalent in the society , which Naville presumes to be dictated by social class rather than technocratic or efficiency considerations . |
| 14 | This guilt-anxiety-fear-anger complex may attach itself to other things than self-view or self-confidence . |
| 15 | Its perpetration is a most despicable and worrying event and one that suggests that civilian rather than military or security targets guarded by armed men , may suit the IRA from a tactical and political standpoint at this juncture . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , the cost of timber Palisade is higher than Marshalite or Countryside walling , but is much easier to construct . |
| 17 | Downlights — recessed , semi-recessed , or ceiling-mounted — are good-looking and functional whatever the style of furnishings and collect fewer flies and less dirt than bowl-shaped or pendant fixtures . |
| 18 | One of their central objections was that Catholic piety incorporated elements of paganism and rendered religion little more than magic or sorcery . |
| 19 | A number of Arab states , adhering to the concept of Arab solidarity , provided moral or material aid for Iraq . |
| 20 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 21 | Throughout the long , hot summer they bloomed merrily right up to late autumn , while common or garden types like antirrhinum and nemesia wilted under the semi-tropical conditions . |
| 22 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 23 | The present author remains of the opinion that most of the Social policy protocol may be achieved under existing treaty provisions , whether specific or general , and the scope of the general provisions will be considered in the next section of this article . |
| 24 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 25 | Modern administration , whether technical or generalist , requires appointment , continuity and specialization , not election , instant recall and rotation among laymen . |
| 26 | The very use of language , then , whether oral or literate involves classification , abstraction and the selection by specific criteria of elements from a largely undifferentiated universe . |
| 27 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 28 | The next 3 Surveys will investigate in greater depth the factors that assist or impede the various activities of farm families on or off the farm , whether agricultural or nonagricultural , paying special attention to the impact of policy . |
| 29 | The first was a reduction in their country 's dependence on the export of primary commodities ( whether agricultural or mineral ) to an unstable world market . |
| 30 | Expense considerations aside , there is much variety in size , material , weight ( whether solid or hollow ) , colour and texture . |