Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] or [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of these tests will determine , for example , depth of foundations or need for special design such as raft construction or piles , problems associated with high water table for both foundations and drainage , need for de-watering , sulphate content of the soil and need to use sulphate-resistant cement . |
| 2 | In addition , the inclusion of academics from a broad range of subjects or chosen for particular expertise ( in student learning , for example ) means that a wider range of critical questions are more likely to be explored . |
| 3 | A central service called the Educational Methods Unit may be called upon by academic teams to provide independent evaluations of courses or to advise upon specified problems . |
| 4 | Most of its time is spent on land , hiding beneath stones or sheltering in damp mossy places searching for the worms , slugs and insects on which it lives . |
| 5 | Her ostensible job is something in advertising or public relations , but this is laughable : people are always rushing off to catch planes or to have showdowns with clients or engage in unmotivated conspiracies to deceive the public . |
| 6 | The legs also gave scope for embellishment ; they were turned into columns or bent into distinctive arch shapes with ball feet . |
| 7 | Emil , Oliver , Cathy and I went round the tables pouring wine , tea or coffee into glasses or cups on small trays with small movements , and when that was done Zak bounded into the midst of things , vibrating with fresh energy , to get on with the mystery . |
| 8 | Options are many ; bomb on funboards or join races , play with dinghies or sweat in Turkish baths , struggle to water start or fluff a duck gybe . |
| 9 | Nurses involved in infertility treatment have an important role in ensuring counselling is provided for couples about potential childlessness , either individually , in groups or linked to self-help groups such as the National Association for the Childless . |
| 10 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 11 | Poverty huddles in corners or squats by pitiful displays of chocolates long past their sellby date . |
| 12 | By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone . |
| 13 | In certain open-country baboons and some other animals ‘ harems ’ appear in herds or moving in separate ranges . |
| 14 | He was always up to any adventure that did n't involve working at tills or sitting on three-legged stools . |
| 15 | The Syrian foreign minister , Abdul Halim Khaddam , visited Lebanon on three occasions to call for ceasefires or appeal for political reforms that might re-establish trust between the two sides . |
| 16 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 17 | Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn . |
| 18 | This is particularly important if the authority in question has been doubted by judges or criticised by legal writers . |
| 19 | Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity . |
| 20 | The clearing contractions were either induced by swallows or elicited by oesophageal distension due to refluxed acid or gas . |
| 21 | Certain information is not compatible with the psychology of the masses ‘ lest it be trampled asunder ’ , abused , ridiculed by sceptics or used towards destructive ends . |