Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transfer from special school to integrated provision as a pupil gains mastery of specialised skills or transfer from integrated provision to special provision for specific reasons should be neither surprising nor impossible . |
| 2 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 3 | We recognise that local authorities are under a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and that they may wish to stock a range of material about homosexuality , dealing with homosexual themes or written by homosexual authors . |
| 4 | With doors and drawers in place , you have the choice of replacing old handles or investing in new . |
| 5 | The information can then be used for future projects or integrated with other data at a later stage . |
| 6 | In Ipswich the development officer built up a register of possible workers through personal contacts or contact with local clubs , associations and the job centre . |
| 7 | Consequently , you would use OPENUP for reading serial and random files , adding to the end of serial files or writing to random files . |
| 8 | The first describes the forms of English , spoken and written , at various levels from individual letters or sounds to connected discourse . |
| 9 | They find their way to alternative allergists because they read articles in newspapers and magazines that are written by naive journalists or planted by efficient public relations experts . |
| 10 | Although only a small minority of elderly households lack basic amenities or live in unfit dwellings , it is also important to question the suitability of the housing stock for older people 's needs . |
| 11 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 12 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 13 | Another great spiritual advantage was that the people 's occupation allowed them the opportunity to read good books or to engage in godly conversation whilst they were working away at their looms . |
| 14 | They often suffer deep feelings of guilt if their children fail to succeed , to make good relationships or to turn into responsible and law-abiding members of society . |
| 15 | EP The local government reforms , like the poll tax , are narrowly partisan and will require a costly and unnecessary upheaval in terms of the need to preserve salaries of existing officials or provide for early retirement , the authors assert . |
| 16 | These two differing approaches related to how the peasants were assessed as a class : ( a ) as a petty-bourgeois formation and a breeding ground for capitalism ; or ( b ) pre-capitalist petty-commodity producers who can either grow into capitalist producers or move towards socialist forms of production via co-operation . |
| 17 | Bravely , she shut her mind as firmly as she could against the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the shadows cast by great trees or trod across soggy glades that made her think with a shudder of hidden bogs . |
| 18 | Unlike gold , native silver does not occur in alluvial deposits , but has to be won from veins in mountainous regions or recovered by metallurgical processes from natural alloys or ores . |
| 19 | Second , the tone of such statements brooks no reply , and in any case the author 's argument is rarely couched in reasonable terms or supported by adequate evidence . |
| 20 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 21 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 22 | We do n't have luxury yachts or go to expensive hotels all the time . ’ |
| 23 | None have made statements about the deterioration of conditions in their respective professions or protested against human rights violations . |
| 24 | Co-operative R&D ventures which enable participants to share fixed and sunk costs , share risks , pool different complementary assets or benefit from other positive pecuniary externalities will almost certainly raise incentives to do R&D . |
| 25 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 26 | They huddle sensibly together in heaps of dirty wool while the pitiless wind shifts and howls between the shivering trees or flaps with daemonic aggression at the corrugated sheets of the sheds , outhouses and garages along the village road . |
| 27 | Some are intersected with elegant stripes or studded with radiant spots ; others affect to be genteelly powdered or neatly fringed . |
| 28 | In surface water , the content of soluble iron is usually low , and most of that present is in the form of insoluble hydroxides or combined with organic matter . |
| 29 | The regulations state that to work part time one must be looking after small children or caring for disabled relatives , but there are many more reasons why women would want to work part time . |
| 30 | All enclaves are of a sheltered-shore or intermediate form and the species is either absent from exposed headlands or confined to small areas of local shelter ( Kitching , 1977 ; Crothers , 1983b ) . |