Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two distal oral papillae are block-like , the distalmost one is the largest and arises on the adoral shield and/or the oral plate . |
| 2 | The referrals come mainly through the resident 's GP and/or the local community psychiatric service . |
| 3 | We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR . |
| 4 | Applicants should be graduates who have experience in water management issues related to agriculture and/or the rural environment in general , including water quality and pollution . |
| 5 | If so , should it be accounting ROI or the internal rate of return ( IRR ) ? |
| 6 | The Supreme Court ruled that the limit on non-economic damages did not violate either the US Constitution 's guarantee of equal protection or the due-process requirement of the Missouri constitution . |
| 7 | Without firm action to peg the dollar from either the Bundesbank or the Federal Reserve , such intervention is likely to have , at most , only a small and temporary effect . |
| 8 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 9 | Emission standards come in a variety of forms , such as the maximum concentration of a substance in a given volume of gaseous effluent or the maximum opacity of a smoke plume . |
| 10 | Officials said that there were no plans to evacuate people from the formerly secret Tomsk-7 military settlement or the nearby city of Tomsk , which has a population of 500,000 . |
| 11 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 12 | He said it very quietly in case anybody from the health board or the social work department overheard us . |
| 13 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 14 | Even the inside of a plastic bag makes me want to vomit , with its musty smell of lumber or the back room of a small shop . |
| 15 | You select which device you want , put it on the end of the drain rods and push them down the drain or the rodding point . |
| 16 | This is not the perspective of the dispassionate scientist or the political thinker but the missionary zeal of the revolutionary demanding participation by others . |
| 17 | Whether they served the primary or the secondary sector schools could take their management responsibilities in two ways : they could plan with the expectation that a larger degree of local choice and discretion would be gradually restored to them or they could look upon their job as one of responding to differing levels of pressure from central government . |
| 18 | They became adept at portraying well-known types such as the domineering wife , her hen-pecked husband , the poor widow anxious to get a son or daughter wed , the miser , the guardian or the severe nurse and at spotting any odd person or antics . |
| 19 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 20 | One reason for this is undoubtedly the fact that many of those who are attracted to homoeopathy are well content just to treat patients as they present , and do not have the expertise or the scientific bent of mind required to design and carry out clinical trials . |
| 21 | The sources of power are office or structural position of authority ; personal characteristics such as leadership ; expertise or the specialized information than members of organizations have , and opportunity , or occupancy of a critical position in the flow of information or in the process of production . |
| 22 | He was not responsible for G division or the metropolitan area , so this had nothing to do with him . |
| 23 | In virtually every other big city , detectives from a special ‘ internal affairs ’ division or the local district attorney 's office conduct an independent investigation . |
| 24 | The alarm call of the blackbird or the chattering hiss of the squirrel when a cat walks into my garden tell all and sundry that danger stalks near at hand . |
| 25 | The justification advanced — and clearly it has some validity — is that medical opinion is divided , or , more important , that the legal concept is of a different nature from the medical , involving considerations other than the mere question of scientific evidence , such as notions of responsibility or the common good . |
| 26 | Draw patterns on the eggshells with a wax crayon or the pointed end of a candle . |
| 27 | We can help you find the cost-effective solution , whether it is one method of funding or the clever combination of different methods . |
| 28 | Beginning with the distribution of medical practitioners , a PEP report in 1944 found that it was ‘ determined primarily by the income level or the rateable capacity of the locality ’ , and perceptively concluded that this disparity ‘ is even more serious than it appears … because ‘ under-doctored ’ districts are usually also poor districts with high rates of sickness and mortality ’ . |
| 29 | The joints in a timber lock-gate or the eroding mortar of a sluice often provide congenial conditions for gipsywort or skullcap , with its clear blue flowers . |
| 30 | The motivations of the middle-aged housewife or the young man with good career prospects who joined Militant , remained unexplored . |