Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 2 | I feel that this reflects inadequate training and/or briefing of such staff on the work of different sections of the Garden , and I am sure that this can be overcome relatively easily by providing adequate induction courses for all the RBGE , BTC and others who have contact with members of the public . |
| 3 | Entry to any group can be restricted and/or entry to any programs within that group . |
| 4 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 5 | The few instances of " long distance transport tend to be early : at Fishbourne , or Angmering , where siltstone of Mediterranean origin was encountered . |
| 6 | Any decision taken by the individual , head or subcommittee with delegated authority is binding on the whole governing body . |
| 7 | Two very distinct varieties are the so-called ‘ melanistic mutant ’ , ( 6 ) dark in both sexes ( cock deep blue and green , hen very dark brown ) , and the flavistic Bohemian pheasant ( 5 ) buff or cream-coloured with blackish markings and dark head . |
| 8 | For more details on the contraceptive methods mentioned in this leaflet , write in or 'phone for further information and a leaflet order form to the Family Planning Information Service FPIS , . |
| 9 | The maintenance ordered may be in the form of a lump sum , by way of periodical payments of income , or by transfer or settlement of specific property , or the variation of a settlement . |
| 10 | The Insurer shall be entitled to take over the conduct in the name of an Insured Person in the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of an Insured Person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings and in the settlement of any claim . |
| 11 | take over and conduct in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , the defence or settlement of any claim |
| 12 | take over and conduct in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , the defence or settlement of any claim |
| 13 | No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require . |
| 14 | take over and conduct the defence or settlement of any claim ; and |
| 15 | take over and conduct the defence or settlement of any claim ; and |
| 16 | take over and conduct the defence or settlement of any claim ; and |
| 17 | take over and conduct the defence or settlement of any claim ; and |
| 18 | No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder or any person claiming to be indemnified without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder or such person the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder or such person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder or such person shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require . |
| 19 | Wilson-Barnett differentiates between teaching ( involving a change in behaviour ) and information-giving ( a process , and having less concern with how it is received … and not necessarily involving interaction or assessment of individual need ) . |
| 20 | to give under any enactment a notice under or by virtue of which requirements are imposed on a person : or ( b ) to make an order or direction under any enactment . |
| 21 | For example , using the passive in Japanese can imply that a certain event is viewed by the speaker or writer in unfavourable terms , as the following example illustrates . |
| 22 | The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses . |
| 23 | Reports continued of disagreements between Kurdish leaders [ see pp. 38308 ; 38361 ; 38407 ] after the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) , Masoud Barzani , challenged his political rivals on Oct. 29 to an electoral test to decide whether to accept the government 's autonomy plan or resort to armed struggle . |
| 24 | The regulations placed the Foreign Ministry in charge of foreign news affairs and stated that journalists " shall not distort facts , fabricate rumours or resort to inappropriate means " in their reporting . |
| 25 | They may choose what breakfast cereals or brand of baked beans they will eat , and have some discretionary expenditure within their pocket money . |
| 26 | A new treatment of volumes required , naturally , the invention or formulation of new techniques to reconcile it with the demands of the flat picture surface . |
| 27 | In general , further energies went into consolidation , as the struggle for day-to-day survival offered little time or opportunity for political mobilisation . |
| 28 | Their different paths can seem as much the result of luck , accident or opportunity as any capacity to distinguish between right and wrong . |
| 29 | In inside out patches , channel activity increased fivefold during depolarisation , ion substitution experiments confirmed that the channels were highly selective for K , and channel activity was almost abolished by removal of Ca 2 or addition of 5 mM Ba . |
| 30 | No mere subtraction or addition of conceptualizable features could transform our own experience into the bat 's . |