Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the ubiquitous expression of the divergent pou[c] transcription factor , it will be of great interest for future studies to elucidate the function(s) of pou[c] in transcription and/or replication and to determine whether pou[c] is involved in the regulation of a distinct set of target genes . |
| 2 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 3 | I have experience of teaching French as part of an interdisciplinary degree course in which the study of 1 or 2 modern languages is combined with ( inter alia ) history and/or literature and/or linguistics . |
| 4 | Those patients who had not had liver biopsies had had significantly abnormal liver function tests and/or ultrasound or isotopic scanning evidence of liver disease . |
| 5 | economies or efficiencies in manufacturing and/or research and development ; and |
| 6 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 7 | Odd-Knut makes coffee using the method we have become familiar with — chuck the coffee in a pot , add snow to taste , boil on the stove , when empty add coffee and/or snow as necessary . |
| 8 | The modules will help the student to establish social relations , to transact the business of everyday living , to interpret spoken and written material for information and/or pleasure as well as vocational purposes where appropriate . |
| 9 | It 's good , but it 's you know , it 'll fight er with anything , any sort of beer or whisky or any of these things , but it 'll also fight with cough bottles . |
| 10 | Or brandy , or whisky or wine for that matter , so we had common ground there at least . |
| 11 | ‘ I can offer you tea , coffee , or whisky if you 'd rather . ’ |
| 12 | There is now a need for a fresh use of the imagination , a new conjecture or hypothesis or guess . |
| 13 | For the design of energy management systems offers a new diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to an ideal form : like the Panopticon , the design of their microelectronic circuitry represents the functioning of control abstracted from any obstacle , resistance or friction and detached from any specific use . |
| 14 | Some sports magazines and shops sell weighted strips of material that you can wear around your wrists or ankles whilst doing other exercise ( such as suppleness exercises or when running ) . |
| 15 | Use of the indoor swimming-pool , sauna , solarium and fitness room is included and there 's also a hotel bar , a lounge , playroom , table-tennis , pool & billiards and a few free bicycles . |
| 16 | The partners practised as Marks & Clerk and were joined by Marks 's younger brother Edward in 1894 . |
| 17 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 18 | But the shaper is more than a surgeon or scientist or sculptor : he does more than repair or re-form : he energizes inert matter , turning a slab of foam into a fibreglass dolphin . |
| 19 | Saltpetre , or potassium nitrate , is a preserving salt usually available only at a chemist 's or pharmacy and is most commonly used to preserve the pink colour of pickled or salt beef . |
| 20 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 21 | Where Federman and Sukenick have stressed the specifically linguistic dimensions to such disruption , Robbins once again casts himself in the role of entertainer , trickster and comic commentator . |
| 22 | Virgil or Dante or Homo or something ? ’ |
| 23 | There , it percolates down through the rocks into aquifers ( underground water reserves ) , or flows as surface rivers back into the sea , propelled by the Earth 's gravity . |
| 24 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 25 | The price to be paid for the sub-licences was either agreed at that time or subsequently by letter or telex and the sub-licence was then prepared in Hong Kong and sent to the customer for signature . |
| 26 | However , Intel has slapped writs on Cyrix , C & T and a firm called ULSI , and it recently won a case against Atmel , another chip maker hoping to break into the PC microprocessor market . |
| 27 | It is selling its 20% stake in American cellular communications group McCaw to AT & T and there is speculation that it will use the proceeds to mop up Cellnet . |
| 28 | Have you a stuffed bird or squirrel or stoat in a glass case ? |
| 29 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 30 | This question , and the next , were perhaps the two most crucial with regard to how much the families would be motivated to attend training courses or change and improve their farms . |