Example sentences of "in the [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of the campaigns are run by authorities in the more accessible countryside ; there are few campaigns organized by those in the remoter or upland areas , either because they deem them undesirable or consider the likely returns insufficient . |
| 2 | Baptists and Congregationalists encourage the incorporation of property in the regional or County Union and the Wesleyan Methodist Church ( now combined with the Congregationalists in the United Reformed Church ) usually prefers the system of local personal trustees . |
| 3 | an advertisement in the technical or trade press . |
| 4 | Journal literature is very widespread indeed and any researcher may find himself having to read not only in an academic subject area but also in the professional or trade journals too . |
| 5 | But the cushioning has to be in the mid or forefoot , where the foot hits , rather than the heel . |
| 6 | Versatile Rodber , who can play in the second or back row , will continue his club career at Northampton . |
| 7 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 8 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 9 | This clause was expressly agreed to by the shipper-consignor and the carrier at the moment of issuance of the CKR and to be effective had to be noted in the original or master bill of lading . |
| 10 | So , if we get trainees graded in the Basic or Premium 3 grades , we will run at a substantial loss . |
| 11 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 12 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
| 13 | The raw material of his experience was transmuted into story — for whether he was working in the poetic or prose medium , Masefield was above all a story-teller . |
| 14 | A good time for orientation in the academic or school library is the beginning of the academic year when students are being introduced to all the available facilities . |
| 15 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |