Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housing associations attempt to provide housing at fair rents either for community needs or for special groups such as retired rural workers , the elderly or the handicapped , both through building and through acquisition of existing properties ( Clark 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Whale meat in Japan is now a luxury item for wealthy businessmen , or for special occasions such as weddings and religious festivals . |
| 3 | In many areas , it took the full weight of Paisley 's authority , exercised either directly or through loyal supporters such as Gordon Cooke , then chairman of the North Antrim branch , to persuade the Protestant Unionists to dissolve in favour of the new organization . |
| 4 | Chattels personal consist either of tangible goods , or of intangible rights such as patents , or stocks and shares . |
| 5 | Also , any core may consist largely of iron , or of iron-rich compounds such as iron sulphide ( FeS ) and various iron oxides ( FeO , Fe 2 O 3 ) , or of some mixture of iron and iron-rich compounds . |
| 6 | The navy is considering dropping the submarines either into existing nuclear dumps in South Carolina and Washington state or in watery graves some 4000 metres down off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina or Cape Mendocino , California . |
| 7 | Whilst this is perhaps more straightforward in certain businesses like banks , or in other activities such as in the military or diplomatic field , it is no less important in other sectors where a security culture has in the past seemed unnecessary . |
| 8 | Some of the group are aiming for further education in business administration , or in other areas such as leisure and tourism . |
| 9 | These include shifting cultivation : for example , in Zambia where it is nationally outlawed , or in certain areas such as Sukumuland in Tanzania ( Berry and Townshend 1973 ) . |
| 10 | Originating summonses and equivalent documents will be served by an officer of the court , who may be the clerk to the court ( as in Switzerland ) , or an officer with specific functions including the service of process ( such as the ufficiale giudiziario in Italy ) , or in some countries such as France a huissier de justice , a process-server appointed by the State authorities but engaged in a professional capacity by the plaintiff . |
| 11 | The development of forests , either by wholesale ( re ) planting of watersheds or in smaller areas such as gullies and riverbanks , in other small lots such as fuelwood plots , on terrace-backs and field boundaries for fuel and/or fodder , or in lines for the additional purpose of windbreaks , is also an important element in most conservation schemes . |
| 12 | They are usually placed in factories and offices , or in public places such as railway stations . |
| 13 | The second proposal , therefore , is that variations in sensitivity may depend upon receptor heterogeneity ( Box 2 ) arising from the presence of different gene products , from alternative splicing or from post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation or autophosphorylation ( because the IP 3 R can function as a protein kinase ) . |
| 14 | Is not it true that the majority of pensioners have extra income from savings , from an occupational pension or from other benefits such as income support ? |
| 15 | Measurements would have been taken from the guest cast enabling the Costume Supervisor either to begin tailoring any special costumes ( a Sensorite uniform for instance ) , or to arrange hiring of costumes from BBC stock or from Theatrical Costumiers such as Bermans & Nathans — who had supplied William Hartnell 's Edwardian outfit as the Doctor . |
| 16 | However , the cuts in higher education funding have affected the social sciences quite severely , as sociologists have retired early and not been replaced , and as research grants have become more difficult to get , whether from ESRC or from charitable trusts such as Leverhulme , Rowntree , or Nuffield . |
| 17 | Desertification is the long-term degradation of drylands , resulting either from over-use by man [ sic ] and his animals , or from natural causes such as climatic fluctuations . |
| 18 | If preparations are required from whole older embryos ( >5 mm ) or from larger organs such as livers and spleens of day 12–20 embryos from which some loss by centrifugation can be tolerated , the specimens are first mechanically disaggregated into cell suspensions and processed as described in Table 3b . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the heating of the smoke plume due to its absorption of solar energy may have been more important than the reduced surface heating such that a net warming of the lower atmosphere produced a slight enhancement of the Asian summer monsoon overall ( Browning et al. , 1991 ) or over specific areas such as the Tibetan plateau ( Bakan et al. , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 21 | The use of ritual , which may involve dancing , psychoactive plants and other techniques , may be directed towards the achievement of altered states of consciousness or to specific ends such as healing . |
| 22 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 23 | The high cost of transport meant that areas with access to the sea or to navigable rivers such as the Danube were better placed than inland areas . |
| 24 | It therefore becomes the responsibility of those who control its application to prevent any developments which could have undesirable effects , either on society in general or on limited sectors such as agriculture . |
| 25 | ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ? |
| 26 | This may be exacerbated by their mental frailty or by their neglected appearance ( a vicious circle in this context ) or by sensory deficits such as deafness . |
| 27 | An adult patient may be deprived of his capacity to decide either by long term mental incapacity or retarded development or by temporary factors such as unconsciousness or confusion or the effects of fatigue , shock , pain or drugs . |
| 28 | Control rests neither with the whole nor with isolated parts Each level is constrained by those above it and autonomous with respect to those below . |
| 29 | It is being promoted to designers , architects and interior decorators for wall cladding , working surfaces in kitchens , hotels , shops , banks and offices and for shaped articles such as washbasins . |
| 30 | Adaptations of the basic step ladder design , allowing use as an extension ladder and for uneven surfaces such as stairways , are particularly useful for light cleaning work in small operations . |