Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you overdraw by more than £50 or exceed the limit of an arranged overdraft , you will be charged a monthly usage fee of £10 ( rather than £3 or £6 for the Flexible or Interest options ) . |
| 2 | The name " phenomenological " betrays its origins in University departments , but in ordinary language this approach is usually referred to loosely as the multi-faith or world religions approach . |
| 3 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 4 | The problem with the original Codasyl proposals was that there is no clear distinction made between the conceptual or user view and the physical or computer view . |
| 5 | The childhood supplement does not provide detailed information about the economic or household characteristics of the 61445 children classified as unoccupied on the basis of information from a 10% sample of the 1981 census . |
| 6 | When the cellarman judges that the beer is in perfect condition , he or she hammers a tap through the wooden or plastic keystone in the tap hole of the cask . |
| 7 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 8 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 9 | Gallaudet , a firm believer of the combined system , and by leading deaf people like George Healey of Liverpool , and by experienced teachers or missioners of the deaf in favour of the combined or sign system like Elliott , Welsh , Rhind were all largely dismissed or ignored in the Report 's recommendations , which were in essence that the Pure Oral system should be used to educate the deaf and that teachers for the deaf should be properly qualified , experienced in teaching in ordinary schools , and be in possession of all their faculties . |
| 10 | Predators form the top part of the ecological or office pyramid . |
| 11 | Alternatively , we can make the decision that decent wages should be paid to all workers who carry out their duties properly and effectively , and that this increased wage level may need to be reflected in the price of the good or service . |
| 12 | To undertake more redistribution the government will have to increase tax rates , thereby driving a larger wedge between the price paid by the purchaser and the price received by the seller of the good or service . |
| 13 | We spent some time discussing the operation of the traditional or discount market because , we said , it was in that market that the Bank of England tried day by day to influence monetary conditions in the domestic economy . |
| 14 | An important surviving example of a British Line other ranks ' regimental jacket of the 8th or King 's Regiment , c.1822 , is illustrated , and described by the Chairman of the Regimental Museum Committee . |
| 15 | So if we add an example using the N tuple technique of the exclusive or problem for example er like that we want to see how the network would solve that okay in terms of a single layer network . |
| 16 | Collections in just about every price bracket offered interpretations of the equestrian or dandy themes . |
| 17 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 18 | In contrast to the Labour dominance in the larger cities , the Conservatives , sometimes in alliance with groups of independent councillors , have traditionally controlled most of the non-metropolitan or shire counties in England and Wales . |
| 19 | Histograms were classified without previous knowledge of the pathological or survival data . |
| 20 | All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score . |
| 21 | All images were evaluated by one of the authors ( WBT ) without previous knowledge of the results of the clinical or laboratory tests , which were collected separately without knowledge of the scan score . |
| 22 | All of them show as Tate Gallery director Nicholas Serota states ‘ a renewed interest in abstract painting , often based on a distilled observation of the urban or material world , and exploration of that world by means of the camera . ’ |
| 23 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 24 | The crucial point is therefore the ambit of the preliminary or collateral question . |
| 25 | Unfortunately there is hardly any usable evidence on price movements ( apart from obvious dramatic rises during famine-periods ) , though capitularies document the notion of the local or market price . |
| 26 | My partner will prohibit any member of the medical or anaesthetic staff from crossing the threshold . |
| 27 | Furthermore , in a five-match Test series one of the northern or midland venues must forego . |
| 28 | A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat . |
| 29 | Trade unions have a vested interest in the success of the commercial or government organisation to which their members belong because unless this organisation prospers , the security and rewards of their members will be restricted . |
| 30 | Other firms use researchers to do most of the contacting or cold-calling . |