Example sentences of "to [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise of ‘ green ’ issues , indeed , was more naturally appealing to Labour or Alliance politicians , and a powerful reminder of the rich variety of resistance to Thatcherism that British society could release . |
| 2 | Firstly , they are given a two month course covering most aspects and procedures of aircraft accident investigation , after which they spend several months assisting experienced investigators in the field until they are sent out , with full responsibility for their particular side of the investigation ( i.e. operations or engineering ) , on one of the many minor accidents to private or club aircraft . |
| 3 | geographical dispersion of an organisation increases the pressure for decentralisation of authority to regional or area managers ; or |
| 4 | Thus popular or common names of subjects are included in preference to technical or specialist jargon . |
| 5 | The Women 's Therapy Centre ( offers individual or group therapy , unfortunately based only in London and quite expensive , but can put you in touch with a therapist in your area , and offer discounts to unemployed or low-waged ) : 6 Manor Gardens , London N7 6LA . |
| 6 | Secondly , patients in hospital may also avoid hasty discharge to residential or care homes if they face means tested charges . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) mentioned alternatives to residential or nursing home care . |
| 8 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 9 | This structured response is preferable to reactive or crisis management which is found where objectives are unclear , plans haphazard and where the organisation lives from one day to the next . |
| 10 | It can be triggered by long-standing discontentment with body weight and shape or by specific threats to individual or family adaptation . |
| 11 | Earlier , Conte had defended his decision to limit to two the number of political parties which would initially be allowed to function under the promised multiparty system , saying that the CMRN rejected " both any anarchic multiparty system that divides the people , and a single party that leads to individual or group dictatorship " . |
| 12 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 13 | The following activities and exercises may be pursued individually or in groups , and may provide a framework for individual study leading to personal or group presentations in seminars or workshops , dependent on the resources available and the provisions made for personal study in the course curriculum or re-orientation programme . |
| 14 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 15 | This curious story is of interest because it is rare in classical ( as opposed to hellenistic or Roman ) Greece for an oppressed group to find a leader with the capacity to defy organized city-state forces . |
| 16 | But it would let firms who want to move eventually to monthly or bank payment of wages plan ahead more surely . |
| 17 | Obviously , if they arc a colour as opposed to white or wood , you should choose a background that blends with them . |
| 18 | There were curious villagers waiting for the wedding to begin in the back seats of the church but they did not look to left or right . |
| 19 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 20 | Normally subjects were able to detect the presence of this gap equally well whether the square was presented to left or right of the fixation point . |
| 21 | In this piece I suggest that extremely good finds can also be made by moving slightly to left or right of some present-day road alignments . |
| 22 | Failed suicides tend to try again , just as ( failed ) anorexics tend to relapse , and yet both can live for years without resorting either to self-destruction or self-starvation . |
| 23 | The Queensland legislation is also contract based and permits a court , on application , to make an order that the defendant forfeit an amount equal to all or part of the proceeds received or to be received by him , or by any other person on his behalf from a contract relating to : |
| 24 | I know they will , but only from purple to pink or silver . |
| 25 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 26 | Our aristocracy is handsomer ( more hideous according to Chinese or Negro ) than the middle classes , from [ having the ] pick of the women ; but oh , what a shame is primogeniture for destroying Natural Selection ! |
| 27 | Its transfer function in the unloaded condition is or Hence its unloaded transmission is given by from which it can be seen that the transmission approaches 100% as the frequency tends to zero or infinity , but reaches a minimum value of ⅔ when . |
| 28 | Responses to CCK-8 or bethanechol were recorded 10 minutes after pretreatment with the NO synthase inhibitors or with saline ( all drugs were administered as an intravenous bolus dissolved in 0.9% NaCl ) . |
| 29 | In the presence of L-NAME , responses to CCK-8 or bethanechol were significantly enhanced . |
| 30 | Further concern centred on a proposal to award full employment rights to temporary or migrant workers working on temporary contract , of whom it was estimated that there were over 1,000,000 in April 1990 . |