Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves , for example , some consideration of the overall aims or purpose of a course , though this does not necessarily mean that such aims have to be explicitly formulated or prespecified . |
| 2 | a calculation of the average walk-ins or chance guests ; |
| 3 | The importance of this aspect of a partner 's duty will be readily apparent , for example , in relation to decisions taken at the insistence of a majority against the opposition of the remaining partners or where the question of a partner 's expulsion or compulsory retirement arises ( see Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 ) . |
| 4 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 5 | The essential involvement of an issuing authority gives the choice of the designs placed on coins a relevance to our understanding of the political aspirations or concerns of that authority , and this , together with the great wealth of illustration provided by such designs , will be discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | The creation of a National Commission for the Consolidation of Peace ( COPAZ ) , made up of one representative from each of the political parties or coalitions in the Legislative Assembly , and two each from the government , armed forces and FMLN , charged with the task of supervising the implementation of all future accords , including ceasefires and changes in the armed forces ; its work to be supervised byrepresentatives from the Roman Catholic Church and the UN Observers for El Salvador ( Onusal ) . |
| 7 | He is n't one of the entrenched busybodies or Little Annie Fixits who , for pressing personal reasons , somehow need to police these mysterious institutions , where abuse is the buzzword . |
| 8 | However , this is a one-dimensional spectrum with respect to the component of the wave number in the mean flow direction , and so is not in general a complete determination of the spectral characteristics or of E(k) . |
| 9 | In short , it is sociology 's comparative perspective , its cross-cultural vision , that provides its strongest refutation of the naturalistic explanations or accounts outlined above . |
| 10 | The issue becomes especially important where , as a result of questioning , and without the benefit of the correct conditions or the advice from the solicitor , access to whom has been wrongly denied , the suspect makes a damaging confession which the police later try to rely upon at the trial in order to secure a conviction . |
| 11 | It 's only dirty tricks and underhanded tactics used by the T & G during the approach of the Workers ' Union so must realize Congress , to be more positive , one of the major benefits or more , the major benefit from future amalgamation with the T & G would be the free help of officials from both unions and and negotiations both national , regional and even at times individual company level where both unions help members . |
| 12 | Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquillisers . |
| 13 | He would be with the horses , either in one of the fenced enclosures or in one of the stables . |
| 14 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 15 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 16 | On the one hand , he rejects the idea that we can attain knowledge in the form of demonstrative understanding that certain things must be so , an understanding based on knowledge of the real natures or essences of things . |
| 17 | He partly supported this belief by the fact that of the 3,700 books or articles listed in the two-volume Criminology Index ( Wolfgang , Figlio , and Thornberry 1975 ) which reviews theoretical and empirical work in criminology from 1945 to 1972 , there were only ninety-two , or about 2.5 per cent , dealing with white-collar or corporate crime . |
| 18 | On the other side , however , we need to consider how such ideas in turn affect political life ; how the analyses and interpretations provided by political scientists enter into the struggles between different interest groups , and either help to define more clearly the nature of the conflicting interests or claim to discover ways of reconciling them . |
| 19 | If a place is missing on the map which is mentioned in Domesday Book ( 1086 ) or any of the lay subsidies or poll taxes , this is a possibility for a deserted settlement . |
| 20 | What effects , is any , do rapid changes in technology have on the appropriateness of each of the alternative ways Or putting a cost or a value to an item . |
| 21 | Boulenger was not really ‘ a certain ’ , but at the beginning of this century one of the greatest herpetalogists or ‘ amphibiologists ’ of his time . |
| 22 | They lived in poor houses with outside lavatories , and their clothes stank with the oil of the woollen mills or the dankness of unaired wardrobes . |
| 23 | It may consist in a rejection of the specific schemes or lines of evolution propounded by nineteenth-century authors . |
| 24 | Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives |
| 25 | Cogelow gouges do n't conform to any of the standard shapes or numbering systems . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Except with the consent of the Panel , the offer document must describe how the offer is to be financed , the source of that finance , the names of the principal lenders or arrangers of the finance and , if the financing or any security for it will depend to any significant extent on the business of the target , the arrangements concerned ( or a negative statement ) ( Rule 24.2(d) — see para 11.3.5.7 below ) . |
| 27 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 28 | These people , this class , are concentrated in the centres of the great cities or , less visibly , on deprived farms , as rural migrant labour , or in erstwhile mining communities . |
| 29 | Economically the traditional sector of agriculture was a negative force : it was immune to the fluctuations of the great markets or , if not , it resisted their impact as best it could . |
| 30 | While Korda 's freedom from nationalist hangups may be refreshing , too many of the films that came out of his Denham Studios lacked either the narrative drive of The Four Feathers or the wit of The Ghost Goes West . |