Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] or the " in BNC.

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1 The grant levels may still be high enough to encourage wet pasture improvements or the drainage of wetlands if land cultivation is not an integral part of the scheme .
2 Again they were disturbing people living on the , either the deck level or the ground floor flats , because of the noise that that made .
3 Pipe dots or yoghurt in the sauce around each pear and swirl with a cocktail stick or the tip of a pointed knife to give the feathered effect .
4 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 ’ .
5 This article attempts to provide some explanations for how readers of the play text or the audience of the dramatic performance are able to recognise character traits , and how these traits are themselves affected by the action of the play .
6 It seems clear to us that all of the above criteria will be enhanced or negated by the way in which the change agent or the action system reacts to participation : what stereotypes do they have of client representatives ? do they believe in participation ? what expectations do they have of participation and client representatives ?
7 Well you can get them in the financial press , erm usually the Telegraph on a , on a weekend or the Money Mail or the , any of the loca any good quality paper , or you can buy some of the financial guides that you get in er , in er newsagents these days .
8 Now in the Gloria M products we do the avocado moisturizer or the vitaminized moisturizer .
9 Alternatively , take one of the many cable cars or the ‘ Zugspitze ’ Germany 's highest mountain railway — to enjoy spectacular views in clear mountain air , or to sip a coffee in one of the altitude restaurants .
10 Choose a cake with particular relevance to the child in mind , for instance a pet-owner or animal lover would be thrilled to receive an iced rabbit in a hutch , the frog sitting on its own water lily pond or the ponies in their stable .
11 In the republic of Slovenia , whose referendum of December 1990 had affirmed its right to secede from Yugoslavia [ see pp. 37924 ; 38019 ] , the republic 's Assembly approved on March 7 a law allowing Slovene conscripts to refuse to serve in the JNA , and to opt instead for the Slovene Territorial Defence units or the Slovene police .
12 It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair .
13 Sarah J. Connor , an employee of the Cullercoats Bank , is considering an arbitrage transaction in either the maxi VL index future or the mini VL index future .
14 The Scotsman newspaper has reported that the National Trust for Scotland has decided to stop publicising three venues because increasing visitor pressure there was harming either the building fabric or the ground .
15 They were still on their knees after the last Amen , when a sudden gust of wind arose , blowing past the nave altar and into the choir , as though from the south door , though there had been no sound of the latch lifting or the door creaking .
16 Loo Rock or the island of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the mid-nineteenth century — now part of the mole of Funchal Harbour
17 Yeah I I I mean I got the point , but er where does it take the building industry or the district .
18 Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court .
19 Today , the industry has no need to feed off the margins , needs no lessons from Sigue Sigue Sputnik about the Global Leisure Industry , movie tie-ins or the killings to be made in the future collusion of pop and advertising to create new needs .
20 Slaving over the drawing board or the painstaking pattern-cutting stage ( 1,2 ) .
21 Not many are accessible with binoculars , and to see the ring forms or the central stars means using a telescope .
22 There continue to be a considerable range of views among the 12 member countries on specific issues likely to be discussed at the summit , however , such as the feasibility of carbon taxes or the level of development aid .
23 PATRONS WHO DRIVE CARS TO THE CINEMA ARE REQUESTED TO PARK IN EITHER THE UNION STREET CAR PARK OR THE ST .
24 NatWest refuses to disclose any figures for its Tessa accounts or the number of holders .
25 One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum .
26 Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane .
27 ‘ He was lucky not to be in a concentration camp or the Todt Organisation . ’
28 So those of you who have shown any interest at all in either the research programme or the SafeIT consultative documents can expect the eventual club organisers to be in contact with you between now and then .
29 ‘ In a garrison church , ’ Colonel Ross points out , ‘ when the hymn books or the hassocks disintegrate , the chaplain simply writes a chit and indents the ordnance for more .
30 Whether course of employment in a particular statute should include a tea break or the trip to work may be better decided by a tribunal staffed with a lawyer chairman and ‘ wing ’ members representing the interests of trade unionists and employers rather than the ordinary courts .
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