Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can approach the conference office to find out what 's here , and I can then go after each of the different categories we 're looking for , or each of the conferences . |
| 2 | True , there is a Will in Sonnets 135 and 136 , and if the italicization in the 1609 Quarto is significant it can be seen to represent Shakespeare 's own name , or that of the Friend , or even the Dark Lady 's husband . |
| 3 | That in turn poses the question , whose judgement is to be applied — the management 's , Whitehall 's , Parliament 's , the EC commissioners ' , the pressure groups ' , or that of the public ? |
| 4 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 5 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 6 | By avoiding the insoluble problems surrounding jurisdictional terminology it does however focus on the relevant issues directly : whose opinion on the existence and meaning of a statutory term should be accepted , that of the agency or that of the courts ? |
| 7 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 8 | The more directly threatening stance of the sleepwalker or that of the hypnotist differs from the remote glance of Lamia , but there is once again the unseen threat of the woman as shape-changer and enchantress . |
| 9 | Identity and cultural assurance will become access to the e-data of your ancestors or that of the cultures and social formations with which you identify . |
| 10 | Orton 's fault , or that of the staging by the multi-talented Jeremy Sams ; some flaw in the characterisations , or simply the passage of time and our over-exposure to horrors ? |
| 11 | From here , a futher interpretation of the Miller 's Tale may be proposed which is similar in form to that of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin recalled just above , although far less severe , morally , than either that proposed for the French fabliau or that of the allegorizers . |
| 12 | The intricacy of the Paris ‘ Cu[id and Psyche ’ ( 1793 ) or that of the Geneva ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ ( 1794 ) are essays in what Hugh Honour in his catalogue contribution describes as ‘ a meditatively deliberated art of controlled sensuality which demands a reciprocally calm and considered response ’ . |
| 13 | In many cases , it is important that such people are persuaded to a particular point of view which is to their benefit or that of the community as a whole . |
| 14 | In the former , becoming a judge is a matter of electing one career path over another ; having trained as a lawyer , one may select the path of the judge or that of the advocate . |
| 15 | Their album , an endless assault on the drugs , thugs and mugs American Way came without any mention of the band 's name or that of the album , just the stars'n'stripes . |
| 16 | As regards Editing for Industry , I am satisfied the management structure and the people involved ensure that it is far and above board — I would not wish to be associated with anything that damaged my reputation or that of the Association . |
| 17 | In this case the arbitrator has to accept either the position of the management or that of the workforce — the purpose of such arbitration is to encourage moderation , by discouraging unrealistically high pay claims from the workforce and unrealistically low offers from the management , in the expectation that a traditional arbitrator would eventually ‘ split the difference ’ between the two positions . |
| 18 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 19 | From ribbon roses and tapestries to a triptych , Rosemary has always had craft projects of one sort or another on the go but her interest in the world in miniature was re-kindled when her brother , mindful of the dolls-house she had lost years earlier , bought her a one-twelfth reproduction Georgian eight-roomed ‘ des . |
| 20 | Reading the old files , it is interesting to note how many well-known Institute figures have served at one time or another on the TAC . |
| 21 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 22 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
| 23 | Leeds are 22–1 with some bookie or another for the CCC . |
| 24 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 25 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
| 26 | We probably know quite a lot of people who are taking exams of one sort or another at the moment . |
| 27 | The three US service manuals are currently in process of being updated , and it will be interesting to see whether either they , or the new UK tri-service manual which is now in an advanced state of preparation , say anything more specific about possible limits of one kind or another to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |
| 29 | Publication of an internal inquiry was also suppressed by the government ; one board member of the Atomic Energy Authority , which ran Windscale , had warned that it would ‘ inevitably provide ammunition for all those who had doubts of one kind or another about the development and the future of nuclear power ’ . |
| 30 | The term ‘ ecology ’ could be used as an umbrella to cover a wide range of research traditions that did not interact at the detailed level , but which could be seen to deal with one aspect or another of the relationship between living things and their environment . |