Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ adherents of the bloodline ’ would have constituted a relatively small circle of probably aristocratic or patrician caste , members of Jesus 's own family and families related to it . |
| 2 | Varying light conditions , and the demands of either close or distance work will make different visual demands on children , and the nature of these visual tasks should be considered in terms of the child 's visual capabilities . |
| 3 | When planning for the appointment of either additional or replacement medical staff , the manager should have the opportunity to assess the nursing consequences of the appointment . |
| 4 | Resting gall bladder pressure was the mean pressure recorded over a five minute period immediately before an intravenous bolus of either CCK-8 or bethanechol , and the response was defined as the maximal change in intraluminal pressure recorded during the first five minute period after the bolus . |
| 5 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 6 | The intensity of the colour of either reactant or product can be followed during the reaction using a photoelectric colorimeter . |
| 7 | Trestle tables of either laminate or glass are far more suitable than wood . |
| 8 | Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction , in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both . |
| 9 | There are two possible lines of attack , of either positivist or realist tone . |
| 10 | Consistent with this idea , Myc mutants with deletions of either helix-loop-helix or leucine zipper domains did not show any activity , though positive controls are not available for these mutants ( data not shown ) . |
| 11 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 12 | The occiput had not been crushed and there were no signs of either bruising or blood in the vicinity of the deep gash in the skin of the skull . |
| 13 | Although platinum is now the most costly of the precious metals , it is dealt with last because it has not yet attracted the affection or exerted the influence of either gold or silver . |
| 14 | These trains were all composed of covered wagons of either French or Italian make , used on the Continental Ferry Service , and left in this country . |
| 15 | The efficacy of definitional overlap varies greatly across domains , such that specialist dictionaries may be required for more esoteric or specialist domains . |
| 16 | Under stable dietary conditions , western populations may be separated into predominantly methanogenic or sulphate reducing subjects . |
| 17 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |
| 18 | Rhubarb with either mint or lemon balm makes a tart , savoury jelly to serve with lamb . |
| 19 | can be retained with either self-tapping or machine set screws . |
| 20 | Kampmann makes a range of this kind of heater in different sizes , colours and finishes and with either linear or roll-up grilles . |
| 21 | This is not to say that these features are not present within more clay-rich or carbonate mud-rich sediments . |
| 22 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 23 | Scotland , Belgium , Luxembourg , Bulgaria , Spain , Malta , Hungary , Northern Ireland , Turkey , England , Poland , Albania and Latvia have all tried in either European or World Cup qualifiers and all have failed . |
| 24 | Maughan and Rutter ( 1987 ) report on an extension of Fifteen Thousand Hours where the opportunity was taken of the existence of the original 1970 data set to follow the progress of some of the pupils throughout their secondary education in either comprehensive or grammar schools . |
| 25 | A dictionary , in either machine-readable or paper form , constitutes a very large textual resource . |
| 26 | The job cycle is thus about 20 minutes for any group of operators in either straight-line or dock assembly . |
| 27 | ( I have included in my survey most of Lully 's ballets and comedy-ballets up to 1670 ; a soprano part is defined as one notated in either treble or soprano clef . ) |
| 28 | All courses are validated by the University of Wales and , as the college is bilingual , they may be followed in either Welsh or English . |
| 29 | The Literary Agreement signed in Vienna in 1850 by Vuk and a number of Serb , Croat and Slovene authors — including Miklošić , the Slovene who succeeded Kopitar as imperial censor — attempted to create a common literary language based on the South Serbian dialect , written in either Cyrillic or Latin . |
| 30 | Stunning effects can be created with two classical border stripes — Omega and Greek Key — in either gold or platinum . |