Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new President would not , however , be responsible for appointing under-secretaries for the armed services or his own military aides ( and under other legislation was not allowed to remove military commanders ) . |
| 2 | It does not , however , show if there is a significant bias toward the right field for the verbal tasks or if , for example , verbal tasks are just more right in the left visual field . |
| 3 | For example , structural limitation ‘ constitutes a pattern of determination in which some social structure establishes limits within which some other structure or process can vary , and establishes probabilities for the specific structures or processes that are possible within those limits ’ . |
| 4 | In line with this policy , the Eve Report also recommended , shatteringly at the time , that there should be a two-A-level entry standard , and acknowledged that , ‘ in time the normal method of training for the professional examinations or for exempting qualifications will be by way of full time , or sandwich , study . ’ |
| 5 | Send for the above offers or mail order details to : The Bradley Gallery . |
| 6 | Some of the more militant resisters complained that they were being ‘ diddled ’ by the ‘ ingenious , tolerance of a state which deprived them of the opportunity , welcomed by Clifford Allen twenty-five years earlier , ‘ for the young men or our generation … [ to bear ] witness to the faith that [ was ] in them . ’ |
| 7 | Fabliau narrative is characteristically brief , and the plot is complicated and problematic only for some of the characters within the tales , not for the well-informed readers or audience of the piece . |
| 8 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the breaches of these rules may have implications for the financial statements or other aspects of the auditor 's regular reporting responsibilities , and therefore some enquiry in these areas is needed as part of the audit . |
| 10 | The parties should consider Article 85 in transactions where either of the parties involved belongs to a corporate group with a turnover in excess of approximately £150 million or the vendor and the purchaser together enjoy 5 per cent or more of the total market for the relevant goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and one of the parties , normally the vendor , is accepting restrictive covenants . |
| 11 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 12 | Try to ignore the clutter and detail , and look for the central themes or metaphors . |
| 13 | For the first years or so of the war , oil and gas operations , setting aside the damaged Gulf terminals and the dislocation of the northern pipeline , continued very much as during the previous decade . |
| 14 | There is little difference in the custodial rates for the two offences or in the length of sentences . ’ |
| 15 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 16 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 17 | By this time the day was warm and sunny , giving a chance for the final photographs or video recordings before a pleasant drive home . |
| 18 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 19 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 20 | Sukarno 's reply to this economic stagnation and disruption was again monumentalism : the national monument 110 metres high in Merdeka Square ; the Istiqlal Mosque , largest in South-East Asia ; the stadium for the Asian games or Ganefo ( Games of Newly Emerging Forces ) built by the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 22 | It must be clearly stated , however , that few other governments had , since the summer of 1989 , made a point of informing either their national Parliaments or their people about the preparations for the inter-governmental conferences or about their progress . |
| 23 | Save for the clandestine tracts or news-sheets of the Resistance or Underground , newspapers were rigorously controlled — by the German occupying forces in Paris and the north , and by Petain 's Vichy governments in the south . |
| 24 | A. Rhododendron ‘ Praecox ’ Not for the coldest gardens or for alkaline soils , but generally worth growing , given shelter from wind and early morning sun . |
| 25 | It is relatively easy nowadays with a minimum of statistical or computational knowledge to use the facilities of a statistical package for computer analysis ( such as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences or Minitab ) to carry out a wide range of tests . |
| 26 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 27 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 28 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
| 29 | Those who return for the same symptoms or are referred may require more attention . |
| 30 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |