Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accommodation is either in the main building or in superior rooms in cottages , which lie in the grounds . |
| 2 | There is also a Segregation Unit , used both for punishment and to isolate men for their own protection or for other reasons ; a hospital unit , and a hostel from which eleven men can work in the town during the day , returning to the prison each night . |
| 3 | Many badge flights are invalidated by poor photography or by good photographs being taken outside the correct photographic zone . |
| 4 | Supplementary benefit or supplementary pension or allowance may be affected immediately on admission or after eight weeks , according to circumstances , and widow 's pension and some other State pensions and benefits also after eight weeks . |
| 5 | The aim of any commercial undertaking is to operate to the best advantage or in other words to do as much trade as it can . |
| 6 | The close relationship between some of these groups and their Soviet neighbours is immediately apparent from their names alone but the largest group , the Hui , are either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants . |
| 7 | The contribution of the non-hegemon countries is mainly restricted to assembly and fabrication , usually on contract or as quasi-captive suppliers to a TNC . |
| 8 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |
| 9 | Potentiation of a similar duration can be produced by decreasing the number of stimuli in the tetanus or by other manoeuvres which reduce the level of NMDA receptor activation . |
| 10 | The preference between candidates at the same level or at neighbouring levels was weak , while that between candidates at more distant levels was strong . |
| 11 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 12 | The question , whether such movements are caused by worldwide or eustatic movements of sea level or by local movements of the land , is a vexed one . |
| 13 | Considerations to be explored at the December conference included the scope of union , for example the degree of further transfer of competence ; the functioning of the institutions , for example the strengthening of the Commission with regard to implementing Community policies ; strengthening democratic control and accountability for member-states , possibly via increased involvement of the European Parliament or of national parliaments ; and the application and definition of the principle of " subsidiarity " . |
| 14 | Who could express dissenting views openly when neighbours he hardly knew let alone trusted could hear every word in the shared kitchen or through thin partitions passing as walls ? |
| 15 | Only when the opposition are right back on the defence or for free kicks . |
| 16 | It makes our earlier romancing-where love would sadly bloom in a car park or with bitter words before a shop window dribbling with rain — seem downright courtly . |
| 17 | An important function of intonation in speech is to show the connection between parts of a sentence or between separate sentences . |
| 18 | Elinor Pringle — Flora 's neighbour — grass-widowed by her husband 's political work and his play-writing , fills up her time at the cinema or in provincial towns , and sits alone in melancholy pubs . |
| 19 | purchaser is seeking to take account of areas of potential expenditure after acquisition for events occurring prior to acquisition as identified by the purchaser 's due diligence or from other sources . |
| 20 | to take one course or in exceptional cases two courses from the list available for the other degrees . |
| 21 | Students generally will be examined on the taught elements of the courses by cumulative assessment or by written examinations , or a combination of the two . |
| 22 | Users can represent relational data as standard relational tables which are fully accessible via SQL or as object-oriented classes with full support for methods , composition , inheritance , encapsulation and polymorphism . |
| 23 | This is designed for those applicants who may not necessarily possess any of the qualifications usually presented by mature students , but who show evidence of appropriate achievement either in a related professional field or through other types of intellectual endeavour . |
| 24 | Something of the sort seems to be true for migratory birds , who have some practical grasp of the earth 's magnetic field or of stellar constellations ; and , as I shall suggest presently , the kingfisher may have some practical grasp of the refractive properties of water . |
| 25 | Whether they believe that we change through investigation of the unconscious mind , through investigation of the relationship that forms between a therapist and client , through group experience or through changing patterns of behaviour will depend to some extent on which one of these experiences they can best identify with themselves . |
| 26 | Yet it is a useful general principle in science that distinct and unrelated phenomena exist ; not everything is the same as everything else in physics or in other areas of human endeavour . |
| 27 | In the hard sell of this linguistic and cultural economy , claims are made for English , not unlike those formerly made for Latin or for certain styles of French , that it is better suited to particular intellectual and scientific purposes , notably in the current situation , those for which consumers want to buy languages . |
| 28 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |
| 29 | Much of the recent work had been written at the ‘ macro ’ level , relying on statistics of national income or on general surveys of the economy . |
| 30 | CONDITIONS OF ENROLMENT ONTO A PROGRAMME OF STUDY LEADING TO THE AWARD OF A PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE OR TO INDIVIDUAL AREAS OF STUDY WITHIN THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME . |