Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many schools there are PTAs and School Associations which , though not political ( in a party sense ) , have shown themselves willing to confront the local authority — be that ‘ authority ’ an individual headteacher , a school staff or the divisional or county education officer — when moved to do so . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a market-orientated society , where every good or service has its price , the low-pay ‘ price tag ’ attached to some workers sums up in their eyes the low value placed on them by society . |
| 5 | Where a relative or friend of a person in custody inquires as to his whereabouts , that person should normally be told unless the detainee objects or unless any of the factors , noted above , justifying delay , apply . |
| 6 | The numeric may be a constant , a variable , or a mathematical or boolean expression . |
| 7 | With either type , you may find a 50mm socket , into which a suitably-sized boss connector or adaptor is welded to take a solvent-welded or push-fit pipe , or a push-fit or compression fitting which takes a branch pipe directly so needs to be the correct size . |
| 8 | You may be an older person living on your own or in someone else 's home , or a relative or friend helping to look after an elderly person . |
| 9 | Originally , the Commissioner could provide assistance to any union member who was taking , or contemplating taking , proceedings against their union or an official or trustee of the union in a complaint that the union had breached various specific statutory duties . |
| 10 | First preheat the oven to 170°C ( 325°F/Gas Mark 3 ) and grease and line the required cake tin — in the case of this basic quantity , a 20 or 23cm ( 8 or 9inch ) round tin or an 18 or 20cm ( 7 or 8inch ) square tin . |
| 11 | If the patient 's well-being is enhanced or if a problem such as asthma is cured , but joint pains flare up or a skin rash develops , the physician can reassure the patient that things are moving in the right direction and that the joint or skin problem should be transient and will also clear up in due course . |
| 12 | On receiving notice from the buyer that the tender or documents do not comply , LCH may promptly notify the selling member to similar effect . |
| 13 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 14 | The telescope covers energies from 20MeV to over 20GeV with more than an order of magnitude greater sensitivity than the SAS-2 or COS-B instruments , as well as improved resolution in energy , angle and timing measurements . |
| 15 | Professional investment analysts and advisers are sometimes attracted to the OTC market like bees to the proverbial honeypot , and significantly seem no more interested in figures and ratios than the common or garden punter . |
| 16 | The difficulties that a Martian or child might have with such a system are neatly illustrated in the following Yiddish story : A melamed [ Hebrew teacher ] discovering that he had left his comfortable slippers back in the house , sent a student after them with a note for his wife . |
| 17 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 18 | Engineers need to appreciate these factors because they directly influence judgements as to the level of risk that an individual or society considers acceptable or tolerable ( see Appendix 5 , Glossary ) . |
| 19 | As a party , the Republicans , in electoral terms , remain weak below the presidential level and Reagan 's victory in 1980 can now be seen as largely a personal rather than an ideological or party triumph . |
| 20 | If the other or others had not occurred , then if c had also not occurred , e would n't have . |
| 21 | Presumably , if the military or industry changed their minds about the utility of this approach they could withdraw from it . |
| 22 | Levels of employment and unemployment and the easy or difficulty with which people find jobs can vary a great deal from place to place as well as from year to year , and so our tasks are always changing and developing — something you will notice and should n't be surprised by . |
| 23 | Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous . |
| 24 | It followed from this that real international peace could be attained only through far-reaching political reform within the European States and the weakening or destruction of the monarchical , aristocratic and military influences which had hitherto dominated them . |
| 25 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 26 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 27 | The problem with the original Codasyl proposals was that there is no clear distinction made between the conceptual or user view and the physical or computer view . |
| 28 | A ‘ lamp ’ is the correct name for what most of us call a light bulb , and the common or garden light bulb is known as a GLS ( general lighting service ) lamp . |
| 29 | Armagnac 's second marriage , to Béatrix de Clermont , tended ( like that of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn to Jeanne of Artois ) to incline him towards northern France and the Capetian or Valois court rather than towards an absentee king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 30 | Stick to your plan of good general lighting and a standard or table lamp behind you . |