Example sentences of "or in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , there has been a flood of more conventional sexual harassment claims brought by women , including women occupying executive roles in large companies ; this is by no means exclusively a problem of women on the factory floor or in the typing pool who have reacted adversely to what their male colleagues and superiors may have tried to excuse as ‘ a bit of harmless fun ’ . |
| 2 | Some of these views look inwards : either in the sense of developing the individual child or in the sense of developing English as a separate school subject . |
| 3 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 4 | Or in the glove compartment ? |
| 5 | The state 's function , par excellence , is to manage potential crises which may occur in the economy , in its own fiscal resources , or in the legitimacy of existing social arrangements . |
| 6 | Aliquots of the cell extracts ( 0.3μg protein per assay ) were incubated for 40min in the absence of βγ t ( ○ ) or in the presence of βγ t ( 2μM ) and increasing concentrations of GDP-liganded α t ( ○ ) with phospholipid vesicles containing PtdIns(4,5)P 2 . |
| 7 | Just as the events themselves can be known but not the experiences which they provoked , so we can not hope to understand Eliot as he knelt in that chapel or in the presence of his God . |
| 8 | For example , the effect of incubating the extracts at 26 , 37 and 45°C or in the presence of 0.1–1.0 mM sodiu deoxycholate at room temperature or with 0.01–1 units of alkaline phosphatase was determined ; no difference in the resistance to these treatments of the binding activity of any cell line was observed ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | The assay was carried out with labelled probe alone ( track 1 ) or in the presence of a one hundred fold excess of unlabelled oligonucleotide containing either the homologous consensus octamer motif ( track 2 ) , the HPV 16 octamer-like sequence either alone ( track 3 ) or with the adjacent NF1 site ( track 4 ) , the equivalent region of HPV 6 containing the NF1 site and adjacent region ( track 5 ) and a consensus binding site for the unrelated transcription factor Sp1 ( track 6 ) . |
| 10 | The assay was carried out with labelled probe alone ( track 1 ) or in the presence of a one hundred fold excess of unlabelled oligonucleotide containing either the homologous HPV 16 sequence ( track 2 ) , the consensus octamer motif ( track 3 ) or the equivalent HPV 6 sequence ( track 4 ) . |
| 11 | She scuffed up to the altar in her carpet slippers , and stood next to Clare , with the ill-tempered , tight-lipped expression she always adopted when in church or in the presence of the clergy . |
| 12 | S.61E. ( 1 ) Any person who assaults another person and , at the time of , or immediately before or after , the assault , commits an act of indecency upon or in the presence of the other person , shall be liable to imprisonment for 4 years or , if the other person is under the age of 16 years , to penal servitude for 6 years . ’ |
| 13 | All new ‘ workstations ’ , ( defined as any furniture and equipment used by or in the presence of a user , together with the immediate environment in which the work is undertaken ) , have to comply with the regulations from January 1993 onwards , and all existing ‘ workstations ’ will have to be modified to comply with the Regulations by 31 December 1996 at the latest for less heavily-used stations . |
| 14 | In the remaining 40 patients ( 27.3% ) clearance of the ducts was not achieved because of the aberrant position of the papilla ( seven ) , large size of the stones ( 17 ) , distorted common bile douct ( four ) , presence of a biliary stricture distal to the stones ( five ) or in the presence of serious clinical conditions in which endoprosthesis insertion was considered the most rapid means of establishing drainage ( seven ) . |
| 15 | Blotting was carried out in the absence of leucine zipper peptide as competitor ( lane 1 ) or in the presence of 6 mg/ml CREB leucine zipper peptide ( lane 2 ) . |
| 16 | I 'm wrong in these clothes , and I 'm wrong in London , but I 'm fine at the forge , or in the kitchen , or on the marshes . |
| 17 | This is not to say that only poetry with ‘ positive attitudes to life ’ is acceptable , since anyone who has thought about the representation of evil in literature , whether in satire or tragedy or in the novel , will know that an apparently negative attitude can be in fact profoundly positive . |
| 18 | Anyone interested in that idea , or in the turning systems for schools can contact him at The Croft , Brough , Thurso , Caithness , Scotland KW14 8YE , ( 0847 ) 85605 . |
| 19 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 20 | Despite this one limitation the arthropods have the most varied habits and habitats of any phylum : they can be found anywhere on land , sea or in the air . |
| 21 | Good Shareware flight simulators are a little thin on the ground ( or in the air ) so , we were delighted to find this one . |
| 22 | Good Shareware flight simulators are a little thin on the ground ( or in the air ) so , we were delighted to find this one . |
| 23 | Or in the pulpit ? ’ |
| 24 | If a database is the result of a great deal of effort alone with little judgment in the design of the database or in the selection of material ( for example , a telephone directory stored in a computer database or a directory of postcodes ) it is debatable whether it will attract copyright protection . |
| 25 | At some stage someone , either in the computer department , or in the user department , will think of using the computer to assist in the operation of their department . |
| 26 | Perhaps more generally useful is right clicking on the normal text entry area — this brings up the Modify Style dialog box — or in the border around the page when you are in the default Layout Mode — which brings up the Modify Page Layout dialog box . |
| 27 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 28 | Well last time we saw her , she said that she had n't been I think she went in her bedroom now , or in the toilet . . |
| 29 | The process of training and qualification does not automatically guarantee the surveyor job security and the buyer of professional services is no longer interested either in tradition for its own sake or in the mystique in which many professions have corseted themselves . |
| 30 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |