Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through this process of the return to the mean or average , the superbly intelligent , highly motivated race remains an illusion . |
| 2 | The statistical approach follows on from the Lorenz curve type information but recognizes that , for example , studying the income share of the bottom 10 per cent does not indicate how they are doing in relation to the mean or median of the distribution . |
| 3 | But there is also a practical and political problem , since it is difficult to see how such a theory could speak in any way to the practical or material concerns of women . |
| 4 | We have too much hurrying about in these islands ; much for idle pleasure and more from over activity in the pursuit of wealth without regard to the good or happiness of others . |
| 5 | In this long-term view the weight of employment moves from the primary sector to the secondary sector and then to the tertiary or service sector . |
| 6 | Its adherents were often politically radical and had religious outlooks tending to the liberal or antinomian . |
| 7 | Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person ( other than the authority ) . |
| 8 | To do that you must use a variety of clubs for chipping , from the sand wedge to the 5 or 4-iron . |
| 9 | 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers . |
| 10 | Like free spirits they move to the off or leg side , improvising and manufacturing strokes . |
| 11 | If the batsman moves either to the off or leg side to improvise a stroke , they must be able to redirect their line — to follow his movement — even though they are in the very act of delivering the ball . |
| 12 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 13 | Sometimes used as an alternative expression for the field , but generally applied to the underlying or background colour of any part of the rug ( e.g. , a blue-ground border ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps ‘ salvation by grace , experienced in listening to the preaching or reading of the biblical word , and in affirming the literal interpretation of that word ’ might be a better if clumsier phrase . |
| 15 | Cost control should not be limited to the conceptual or design phase alone . |
| 16 | The Personal Computer Direct Marketers ' Association , PCDMA , is the brainchild of sales and marketing consultant Keith Warburton , and includes not only companies that sell hardware direct to the corporate or business user , but also ‘ off-the-page ’ systems integrators , value-added resellers and dealers . |
| 17 | It was difficult to believe that they had a life to the left or right of that stretch of wire . |
| 18 | If it 's an odd number of repeats , then when the N1 cam is in the centre you 'll get half a repeat at each edge , but if you move the N1 cam half a pattern repeat to the left or right of centre , then again you 'll get a complete pattern repeat at the edge . |
| 19 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 20 | As with arithmetic shift , each bit is moved a number of positions to the left or right . |
| 21 | Immediately following offset of the adapting grating a second grating ( of the same spatial frequency ) was presented approximately 4 degrees to the left or right of the fixation point for 100 msec . |
| 22 | The interviewer 's questions may be edited out so that all we see is the individual talking although the interviewer was in fact standing slightly to the left or right of the camera . |
| 23 | When the aircraft is more that 10° off the bearing , the needle will be stationary , full over to the left or right of the OBS dial . |
| 24 | Female crickets can be trained to walk along a ‘ Y-maze ’ ( Figure 8.2 ) , on which they have to turn to the left or right . |
| 25 | CVC Trigrams ( 32 card set ) : 6x4 cards on which are printed , either to the left or right of the centre point by approximately 1.5 cms , consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams . |
| 26 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 27 | Words ( 32 card set ) : 6x4 cards on which are printed either to the left or right of the centre point by approximately 1.5 cms , common words of 3-5 letters . |
| 28 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 29 | The placement of a text to the left or right of the network , for example , involves judgements based on textual factors such as the narrative point of view ( Fowler 1986 : 127 – 46 ; Simpson 1990 ) , the presentation of verbalisation ( Leech and Short 1981 : 318 – 51 ) , the degree of non-actualised propositions ( Leech 1981 : 154 – 6 ) , as well as the form in which metaphors are realised , and so on . |
| 30 | To obtain a loan , applicants must belong to a professional or trade group of 15 people . |