Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the behaviour of E or G as a function of frequency or time , or more usually of temperature that constitutes the relaxation experiment . |
| 2 | Thus Kinsbourne 's attentional model views shifts in the magnitude or direction of a visual field difference as due to changes in the relative activation of one hemisphere as compared with the other . |
| 3 | The polarisation of the photon provides the single dynamical variable that Bell postulates and , as required , it can take only one of the two values : a photon or ‘ parcel ’ of light , may be polarised in a plane either parallel or perpendicular to a defined direction in space . |
| 4 | The skins ( usually made from wheat ) are filled with meat or fish or vegetables in a seasoned sauce . |
| 5 | You could consider making internal windows or openings in a dividing wall to get more light and airiness . |
| 6 | At the other end of the scale is the much vaunted desktop publishing system which requires high resolution graphics ; either Extended Graphics or Hercules for a PC system , special software such as Aldus PageMaker or Harvard Publisher , and an intelligent page printer . |
| 7 | On your appointment or re-appointment as a tutor you will receive at the beginning of the session : — |
| 8 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 9 | the operation of inserting the printed pages , sections or signatures of a book in the correct order for binding . |
| 10 | As an amateur ornithologist he knew himself to be far behind those people who could identify from a snatch of song or flicker of a wing . |
| 11 | It will be circulated freely and provides the public with one key contact for information on each sport or branch of a sport . |
| 12 | ‘ Belonging to another ’ is proved by showing that the property was appropriated from someone having possession or control of it , e.g. the owner or tenant etc. of a dwelling house would have possession and control of all the personal property in the house , and the owner or driver of a car would have possession or control of the contents of the car . |
| 13 | Provision of the context picture after presentation of the passage , or provision of a partial context , had little effect on either ratings of comprehensibility or recall . |
| 14 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 15 | The book is , as it claims to be , the first real survey of the period , other writers having extracted individual companies or artists from a dauntingly rich and complex panorama . |
| 16 | It is easy enough to identify opposing terms or attitudes in a text , but how does one decide whether or not they are balanced or reconciled ? |
| 17 | Ferguson ( 1989 , p. 5 ) mentions the idea that the pillar might have been a representation or reduction of a sacred tree . |
| 18 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |
| 19 | It may be , therefore , that section 17(c) ( ii ) ( above ) refers to the more serious forms of sanction only , although detention or removal to a special unit would surely fall within its scope . |
| 20 | Daytime employment , sheltered work , or a place at a day centre or day hospital may be one answer , or removal to a hostel or group home . |
| 21 | A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin . |
| 22 | The frequency of gap junctions at the edge of the gastric ulcer was almost the same as that in the endoscopically normal mucosa of the gastric fundus or antrum at a distance from the ulcer . |
| 23 | It would be much better to choose , not the level where the genus Euphoria is succeeded suddenly by the totally unrelated genus Amnesia ( as in figure 3.4:1 and 2 on left ) , but within a formation of uniform lithology where , for example , the species Abra cadabra ( which really exists ) Passes insensibly into a descendent species or subspecies by a progressive statistical swing in the unit characters . |
| 24 | It means a dispute between workers and their employer which relates wholly or mainly to one or more of the following : terms and conditions ( including physical conditions ) of employment : engagement , non-engagement , termination or suspension of employment or of duties of employment ; matters of discipline ; membership or non-membership of a trade union ; facilities for union officials ; machinery for negotiation or consultation and other procedures , including recognition of unions . |
| 25 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 26 | The council is providing cash towards the cost of a major survey in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , where plans for a Community Action Plan are under way . |
| 27 | • Baby wipes ( thick ones are best ) or a damp sponge or flannel in a plastic bag . |
| 28 | The arrangement of atoms , molecules or ions in a crystal can be depicted as a crystal lattice . |
| 29 | The empirical formula shows the simplest ratio of the number of atoms or ions in a substance . |
| 30 | This is the movement of molecules or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of lower concentration . |