Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
| 2 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 3 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 4 | Because neither business organizations nor the public regard the maximization of owners ’ profit as the only legitimate aim of business , distributable profit can no longer be regarded as the sole or premier indicator of performance . |
| 5 | The conviction that weight , shape , or thinness can serve as the sole or predominant referant for inferring personal value or self-worth is central to anorexia nervosa . |
| 6 | The beautiful shells , corals or tortoiseshell souvenirs that are offered in exotic places such as the Caribbean or Indian Ocean islands are very attractive , but they are being seriously over-exploited . |
| 7 | Murder is committed in those situations where D caused death by an act or omission which he knew had death as the probable or highly probable result . |
| 8 | As the supreme or sovereign power within its own boundaries the state can not have rivals which successfully deny its law-making powers or its claims on the ultimate allegiance of its citizens . |
| 9 | The learner is seen as in one of two fixed states also : as the ignorant or uneducated recipient prior to the insertion of knowledge , and as the educated person or product of the school . |
| 10 | French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties . |
| 11 | Is it seen as the major or even sole macroeconomic policy weapon , or is it merely one of several policy weapons , and possibly a minor one at that ? |
| 12 | The Chinese tended to make their kites in the outlined shapes of either fish such as the blue or red card or as birds such as the stuffed owls and vultures shown here . |
| 13 | The name " phenomenological " betrays its origins in University departments , but in ordinary language this approach is usually referred to loosely as the multi-faith or world religions approach . |
| 14 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 15 | Another important function of predicated theme is to signal information structure by presenting the element following It + BE in the main clause as the new or important item to which the hearer's/reader 's attention is drawn . |
| 16 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |
| 17 | There is , however , no simple way of fully dividing up total costs among the different parts of the railway , such as the provincial or suburban sectors in BR . |
| 18 | But work has to be planned with those aims as clearly spelt out as the financial or operational objectives . |
| 19 | When the event precipitating the change is a visual or auditory stimulus under experimental control the resulting activity is referred to as the visual or auditory evoked potential . |
| 20 | In France the breed is still known as the race rouge de flandre occidentale ( West Flemish Red ) but France has its own Flemish Red ( similar to the Belgian Red ) and also a mahogany dairy breed known simply as the Flemish or Flamande . |
| 21 | The target figure is usually a character whose comeuppance , in terms of simple poetic justice , is most likely to be reassuring : types such as the avaricious or preoccupied merchant , the boorish peasant , the selfish priest , in the roles of jealous husband or cohabitor , or selfish would-be seducer . |
| 22 | It was n't like visualizing a holiday — even a place one has n't been before ; after all , there are certain immutables : land , sea , sky and clouds ( not too many of these , please ) ; and even should one have chosen a more unusual location , such as the Arctic or the Gobi Desert , there are photographs . |
| 23 | That level — known as the natural or sustainable rate — is determined by labour market policies . |
| 24 | The adoption of such a procedure raises the question of who would act as the regulatory or responsible body to oversee implementation of the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment procedures . |
| 25 | Africa 's modern print and electronic media developed as the direct or indirect result of contact with Europe . |
| 26 | We can distinguish two main kinds : ( a ) an emphasis on the ‘ informing spirit ’ of a whole way of life , which is manifest over the whole range of social activities but is most evident in ‘ specifically cultural ’ activities — a language , styles of art , kinds of intellectual work ; and ( b ) an emphasis on ‘ a whole social order ’ within which a specifiable culture , in styles of art and kinds of intellectual work , is seen as the direct or indirect product of an order primarily constituted by other social activities . |
| 27 | At the moment , trade marks may be registered in individual countries but there are moves to develop an integrated European system although this will present difficulties as the same or similar marks may already be registered in different countries by different proprietors . |
| 28 | A prey species , such as the bleak or dace , is put in tanks either singly or in groups of up to 20 ; the groups will form schools . |
| 29 | The calendar in use today is known as the Gregorian or New Style , to distinguish it from the Julian or Old Style , and was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 . |
| 30 | AS WELL as ‘ the quiet one ’ , there 's always been a tendency to think of George as the mystical or boring one ( or the quiet , mystical and boring one — ed ) . |