Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was not to influence content , but the state and/or regulatory bodies and/or the law courts were to ensure that ‘ civilized values ’ , ‘ morality ’ and ‘ decency ’ were respected . |
| 2 | In order to probe the regions of NCp7 important for its stable interaction with DNA , NCp7 mutants lacking either potentially important basic residues and/or the zinc fingers ( see methods ) were also tested for their ability to interact with DNA fragments representing proviral DNA . |
| 3 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 4 | Intermediate-level waste covers disposable parts of the plant 's insides , such as filters used to clean routine discharges into the air or sea , ‘ glove boxes ’ where materials are handled from behind glass by remote control , or the metal canisters which surround the uranium fuel . |
| 5 | Cutting the that was for for the or the dairy cows . |
| 6 | No breeze disturbed the budding magnolias or the tree mallows , or the azaleas for which the garden was noted . |
| 7 | To some extent , this must be a reflection on the methodology which we adopted , concentrating as we did on interviewing key actors and observing the development , processing , and implementation of proposals rather than focusing on , for example , the teaching methods of individual teachers or the reading habits of individual pupils . |
| 8 | Who is more in touch with the mood of the public — the tabloid editors , or the broadsheet pundits ? |
| 9 | The answer is to buy an SK210 manual when you buy a lace carriage or the motif cams for the Zippy models . |
| 10 | I do not propose to make any change in the existing basis of liability or the benefit arrangements for the remaining period of the community charge . |
| 11 | One group , the art college or trendy mods , developed a style of dress that became increasingly resplendent , while the other group , the hard mods , or the gang mods , developed into the skinheads . |
| 12 | Alternatively gold lent itself as an inlay for enriching objects made from bronze or silver , such as the famous lion-hunt dagger from Mycenae or the bronze artefacts of Zhou China or the archaistic metal vessels of the Song dynasty . |
| 13 | His work included preparing sermons , managing a variety of organizations attached to the chapel , supervising the finances with the help of the deacons and trustees , if Baptist or Congregational , or the circuit stewards , if Methodist . |
| 14 | Musically , some of us begin and end with the Gods of the Sixties : The Beatles ( or as it might be , Bob Dylan , or The Beach Boys , or The Who ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Tin Pan Alley has unleashed a new monster , a sort of nightmare in rhythm ’ , wrote a Daily Mail correspondent at the time or the cinema riots in 1956 . |
| 16 | But who is this in the case of nitrates : is it the farmers , the consumers who buy high nitrate-produced food , or the fertiliser manufacturers ? |
| 17 | Cregagh Road , telephone Belfast 799021 , or the race organisers on the day . |
| 18 | Yeah that is the or the Road police subdivision . |
| 19 | There was nothing shabby or worn about the close-fitting blue coat or the buckskin breeches ; and the starched neckcloth — no longer as neat as it might have been — and the ruffles to his shirt-sleeves were of the finest linen . |
| 20 | One of the central ideas here is that persuasion through the use of enthymemes relies on what is expected , habitual and assumed , and not on truth , reality , or the way things ought to be . |
| 21 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 22 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 23 | The road ran on into the desert alone , no longer accompanied by the railway line or the telegraph poles . |
| 24 | However , it may be because of some problem to do with the job itself or the working conditions . |
| 25 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 26 | If you decide you want to a buy a new cooker and you go to the Gas Showrooms or the Electricity Showrooms and say I 'd like to buy that cooker there and I would like to spread the payments over time , normally nowadays twenty four months or thirty six months . |
| 27 | I would have no hesitation in recommending either Puffin Dive School , or the dive sites to anyone . |
| 28 | She guessed someone in Special Branch or the intelligence services had objected to her enquiries and that Spittals or the commander had simply capitulated . |
| 29 | With no power to drive the klaxons or the air recyclers , the Base was eerily silent . |
| 30 | In order to avoid the difficult question of whether the sea rises or the land sinks , it is customary to describe any movement involving a rise of the land relative to the sea as a negative movement of base level , or more simply as a rejuvenation since the processes of subaerial erosion are given new activity . |