Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some environmentalists prefer preservation-by-exclusion , so that visitors are rationed because some areas are made deliberately inaccessible ( particularly ‘ wilderness ’ areas ) or a toll or entrance fee is imposed , or even , as a last resort ( as in the case of most nature reserves ) , access is made dependent upon the membership of an amenity society and/or the possession of a permit . |
| 2 | The degree is awarded on the basis of written examinations and/or the presentation of a satisfactory thesis . |
| 3 | 3.3 Any goods and/or work rejected under Condition 3.2 must at our request be replaced or re-performed as the case may be , by you at your expense ; alternatively we may elect ( at our option ) to cancel this order as provided in Condition 10.2 both in respect of the goods and/or the work in question and of the whole of the undelivered balance ( if any ) of the goods and/or the remainder of the work ( if any ) covered by this order . |
| 4 | IL-6 regulates the intracellular concentration and/or the activity of the members of this family . |
| 5 | The only avenue for EC control was through the application of Article 85 and/or Article 86 , which was only open to those cases involving the operation of restrictive practices and/or the abuse of a dominant position . |
| 6 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 7 | In view of the existence of highly concentrated industries , and if governments are concerned that large firms might abuse their powerful positions , two approaches may be adopted when formulating competition policy : the behaviour of the firm in the market may be considered and/or the structure of the market itself may be considered . |
| 8 | If the partner country and/or the rest of the world have a small share of world trade then the import supply curves will be upward sloping . |
| 9 | The motion can be regulated by varying the weight and/or the size of the drum . |
| 10 | ( i ) Backwards pruning : the problem is formulated in such a way that the average branching factor and/or the depth of the tree are kept low . |
| 11 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
| 12 | Throughout history , both have involved either the manipulation and/or the destruction of the world 's forests . |
| 13 | Nor is ‘ law and order ideology ’ an inevitable result of economic decline and/or the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 14 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 15 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 16 | Is it a localized condition or the sign of a generalized bodily disorder ? |
| 17 | Sometimes sharp points develop on the edges of the teeth which will lacerate the tongue or the inside of the cheek . |
| 18 | Read the book it will tell you there 's probably an explanation on the cover or the inside of the cover pass me the coffee please . |
| 19 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 20 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 21 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 22 | True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester . |
| 23 | Where the seat rails taper from top to bottom , as in the back of this chair , it is important to note on the plan whether the section is through the top or the bottom of the seat rail . |
| 24 | In the case of a word processor , there 's usually a border around the working area and a menu either along the top or the bottom of the screen . |
| 25 | equations this one go on the top or the bottom of the fraction or what ? |
| 26 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |
| 27 | Subsection ( 3 ) makes it clear that a licence may be suspended not only on the grounds of the actings of the licence-holder but also on grounds attributable to the actings of persons frequenting the premises or the vicinity of the premises . |
| 28 | If you do not wish to do so , then there are many other new angles of vision available to you : a child 's viewpoint , for example , an animal 's or the viewpoint of a stranger who may interpret familiar customs in unfamiliar ways . |
| 29 | This belief may serve to minimize and underestimate the experience of anxiety in the eyes of the referring agent and the client , the latter becoming quickly dispirited , losing faith in themselves , the specific technique , or the skill of the therapist . |
| 30 | or the dials of a Geiger counter . |