Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR . |
| 2 | Applicants should be graduates who have experience in water management issues related to agriculture and/or the rural environment in general , including water quality and pollution . |
| 3 | If so , should it be accounting ROI or the internal rate of return ( IRR ) ? |
| 4 | The Supreme Court ruled that the limit on non-economic damages did not violate either the US Constitution 's guarantee of equal protection or the due-process requirement of the Missouri constitution . |
| 5 | Emission standards come in a variety of forms , such as the maximum concentration of a substance in a given volume of gaseous effluent or the maximum opacity of a smoke plume . |
| 6 | Officials said that there were no plans to evacuate people from the formerly secret Tomsk-7 military settlement or the nearby city of Tomsk , which has a population of 500,000 . |
| 7 | Even the inside of a plastic bag makes me want to vomit , with its musty smell of lumber or the back room of a small shop . |
| 8 | He presents his wife with a food processor or the latest wisdom on toilet training or breast feeding . |
| 9 | One reason for this is undoubtedly the fact that many of those who are attracted to homoeopathy are well content just to treat patients as they present , and do not have the expertise or the scientific bent of mind required to design and carry out clinical trials . |
| 10 | The alarm call of the blackbird or the chattering hiss of the squirrel when a cat walks into my garden tell all and sundry that danger stalks near at hand . |
| 11 | Draw patterns on the eggshells with a wax crayon or the pointed end of a candle . |
| 12 | We can help you find the cost-effective solution , whether it is one method of funding or the clever combination of different methods . |
| 13 | Beginning with the distribution of medical practitioners , a PEP report in 1944 found that it was ‘ determined primarily by the income level or the rateable capacity of the locality ’ , and perceptively concluded that this disparity ‘ is even more serious than it appears … because ‘ under-doctored ’ districts are usually also poor districts with high rates of sickness and mortality ’ . |
| 14 | The joints in a timber lock-gate or the eroding mortar of a sluice often provide congenial conditions for gipsywort or skullcap , with its clear blue flowers . |
| 15 | The motivations of the middle-aged housewife or the young man with good career prospects who joined Militant , remained unexplored . |
| 16 | The second problem involving tense relates to whether you should use the present or the past tense in your writing . |
| 17 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 18 | After that , she never washed in any water but cold water except when she could borrow a steaming kettle from her aunt in order to wash herself piecemeal in the kitchen or the cramped wash-basin in the bathroom . |
| 19 | Er I therefore think that there should be a process by which the Secretary of State can be involved in getting people on to the police authority , but My Lords should those erm er people be in a position at any time to be the majority or the predominant voice on the authority . |
| 20 | The biopsy tissue specimens taken from the gastric antrum or the second half of the duodenum were collected to make a pool from each subject of about 25 mg ( range 20–30 mg ) of fresh tissue . |
| 21 | Entries will be judged purely on their entertainment value , so you do n't have to be a literary genius or the proud possessor of a computer science degree to enter . |
| 22 | Liverpool boss Graeme Souness must decide whether to opt for Hooper 's experience or the raw talent of £1.3m youngster David James as the Reds bid to overturn their 4-2 Cup Winners ' Cup second round , first leg against Spartak Moscow . |
| 23 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 24 | It does n't have quite the presence or the lovely transparency of the Seymour-equipped hybrid , but the Texas Specials make it sound fractionally bigger , deeper and more authoritative . |
| 25 | If someone catches a human soul or throws their spear into a human body thereby causing illness to the victim , then this is either plain bad luck or the direct result of some transgression which permits the animal/being to attack . |
| 26 | Written confirmation of your telephone call must be received by your branch or the above address within 7 days . |
| 27 | But the committee 's calculations , by assuming cause and effect , made no allowances for absolute differences in per capita income or the proportionate level of exports in GDP . |
| 28 | ‘ Work ’ in this statement does not include housework , ill-paid home sewing or the heavy work of carrying food to the fields in Pakistan . |
| 29 | A professional photographer 's livelihood is dependent on getting it right the first time and most are members of either the Master Photographers Association or the British Institute of Professional Photography . |
| 30 | ( 1 ) The section applies to the grant of a new licence , or the renewal or the permanent transfer of an existing licence , to a non-natural person . |