Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The purse-snatcher is an auburn haired 17-year-old , about 5ft 10ins tall , and was wearing a dark or navy blue jacket with a motif on the back , jeans and white training shoes . |
| 32 | Next on the ladder is an offence which carries a maximum of 14 years and is perpetrated where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , carries , uses or threatens to use a real or imitation weapon or threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant or is a party to the offence with any other person . |
| 33 | Interpreting in schools , colleges , courts , meetings and so on is provided by individual arrangement usually with a social worker for the deaf , though in most personal circumstances ( job interviews etc. ) deaf people say they prefer to use a relative or friend ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982b ) . |
| 34 | If it finds just one such context , then it forms a new OR symbol Y with productions |
| 35 | I have friends who are magistrates and I know they feel tempted to give a fine or bail , when they should be giving a prison sentence . |
| 36 | Costs deriving from the cost centre analysis are usually then allocated on a fair basis between the profit centres to give a departmental or activity net profit . |
| 37 | Genette systematically coins new terms for aspects of narrative which have already been named but which imply a psychological or realist element : flashback becomes amalepsis , point of view becomes focalization , the opposition between telling and showing is translated back into Plato 's terms diegesis and mimesis , and so on . |
| 38 | The chain terminated in an iron ball covered with spikes ; a variant form had the chain supporting a wooden or iron flail sprouting spikes . |
| 39 | More the sort of snap a relative or friend might carry . |
| 40 | SLEEPY Hugh O'Neil escaped a fine or jail for turning up two hours late at court yesterday — because cops searching his home had taken away his alarm clock . |
| 41 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 42 | For 30 per cent this would be for the first time , yet almost half our sample are installing an additional or replacement shower . |
| 43 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 44 | Gabbidon is calling for directors to support an annual or biennial conference for these women and staff . |
| 45 | Deciding whether to incorporate a business involves comparing the different effects of corporation tax , and the income tax and capital gains tax an individual or partnership pays . |
| 46 | Not heard an American or Canadian say that . |
| 47 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 48 | Interaction with other Art and Design degree programmes in the Faculty is encouraged , and students may select a broad or specialist route . |
| 49 | It can be equally disastrous for them and for others if they make a permanent arrangement on impulse and encourage a relative or friend to give up their own home and move in with them because they are under stress and feel that they may not be able to continue to live alone . |
| 50 | And we 'll take no seneschal or steward , either . |
| 51 | This story seems garbled and may be nonsense , but the coincidence between King Haldanus and the Haldenne princeps regis of the Canterbury material remains ; possibly Cnut did have a relative or associate of this name , for the fact that his sister Santslaue occurs only in the Liber Vitae of New Minster Winchester indicates that his kin could have extended further than the threadbare sources reveal . |
| 52 | The company did not have a medical or X-ray background and was conditioned by three previous failures to exploit the medical systems market . |
| 53 | ‘ If a driver knows that any attempt to overtake the car ahead of him will risk a fine or disqualification , then he will not try , ’ the Austrian said . |
| 54 | But cash alone can not repair the personal or community battering that closures of this magnitude bring about . |
| 55 | The principal one was that conversion and growth were particularly directed at the clerical-religious élite , where the annual retreat system formed the annual or biennial centre of the individual spiritual life . |
| 56 | The ESRC has supported a cross-sectional or panel interview survey of a sample of the Great Britain electorate at every general election since 1964 . |
| 57 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 58 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 59 | Choose a beige or biscuit shade and steer clear of anything too pinky , which will make you look flushed . |
| 60 | Below this sits another push-button for selecting a pre- or post-EQ balanced out signal . |