Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single notes or octaves ring out with a kind of starry brilliance . |
| 2 | It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work . |
| 3 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
| 4 | Bored female requires scintillating correspondence to warm her winter nights-Most musical tastes catered for , but no Goths or Smiths fans please . |
| 5 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 6 | Many have adopted the empowerment rhetoric to promote a conservative agenda of blaming individuals for not having the skills or motivation to rise up out of powerlessness ( Ryan , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | Birds are not like this : blackbirds or goldfinches vary reassuringly little wherever you go . |
| 8 | Darwin 's rejection of geographical isolation encouraged his opponents to postulate sudden transformations or saltations to explain how distinct new species were formed . |
| 9 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 10 | The gift of becoming sons or daughters does not come through our being born , but through our being born again . |
| 11 | Do n't expect meetings , discussions or journeys to go smoothly between the 12th and 16th . |
| 12 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 13 | Code switches or style shifts often ( though not always ) mark changes of persona and hence changes of footing within the conversation . |
| 14 | When Orcs or Goblins march off to battle they invariably find themselves accompanied by a horde of Snotlings armed with bits of wood , broken spears , and weapons they have stolen or scrounged . |
| 15 | The old , traditional method of exchange of contracts for sale by the buyer 's solicitors or representatives calling personally on the seller 's is very rarely used . |
| 16 | The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason . |
| 17 | For details concerning the publication history and contents of particular sketches or tales see under individual titles . |
| 18 | Any thoughts of others , any memory , any meetings or encounters have simply disappeared — as dark places are driven away by the sun . |
| 19 | On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views . |
| 20 | Whether Marxists have moral values or ethics remains very controversial ( Lukes , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Compliance with one set of rules or standards does not ensure compliance with the other . |
| 22 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 23 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 24 | We will introduce a new grant , paid through TECs , to help employers , voluntary groups or schools to set up after-school care and holiday arrangements . |
| 25 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 26 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 27 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 28 | driving along , keep to the left except when road signals or markings indicate otherwise or when you intend to overtake , or turn right , or when you have to pass stationery vehicles or pedestrians in the road , allow others to overtake you if they want you , you must not drive on by the side of the road . |
| 29 | Not really , perhaps such beings only recently ( less than 500 years ago ) developed radio communications or space vehicles , and the radio signals or vehicles have not had time to spread very far . |
| 30 | The system of awarding punitive damages as a deterrent to manufacturers or operators falling below acceptable standards of safety totally ignores the huge bureaucracy of regulation and control that exists to preserve those standards . |