Example sentences of "[noun] or [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expenditure programmes may be executed by the Department of Defense , by the State Highways Board or by agencies such as the Office of Economic Opportunity or the National Institutes of Health . |
| 2 | short period policies or to Contractors All Risks insurances . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 4 | Bank loans , and loans made by the bigger finance houses or by bodies such as insurance companies , were not in general subject to credit legislation . |
| 5 | By contrast hydrogen , carbon and nitrogen are all associated with volatile compounds or with compounds such as hydroxy silicates , carbonates and nitrates that yield up volatiles relatively readily . |
| 6 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 7 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 8 | Oh Lord comfort and secure all those who are in trouble in sorrow or in need all those who are sick , especially we ask today for Mary who is in hospital and I understand has had an operation . |
| 9 | Occupational Welfare : benefits in cash or in kind such as expenses or company cars , that raise real income but are not always taxed . |
| 10 | Thus the model can not take account either of changes in operators ' costs or of developments such as road pricing or a carbon tax which could be in place in the medium or long term . |
| 11 | If a worshipper were to make a fetish of his stone or metal image , however , then that might correctly be construed as idolatry , but such an attitude has to be distinguished from the element of sacredness that worshippers often attribute to temples , churches and mosques or to books such as the Bible , the Koran or the Gītā . |
| 12 | Van Laue puts forward the argument that Russia was fatally trapped in an agonising contradiction that produced the establishment of a parliamentary government or in fact any other government than the Bolsheviks . |
| 13 | ‘ All the remaining aircraft will have to be financed on other balance sheets or through facilities such as Exim , ’ says Dr Ryan . |
| 14 | His writings on art include several reviews of the Paris Salons , which were either published in booklets or in journals such as the Revue française . |
| 15 | well no , er lets put , lets , lets , lets put that to the vote , erm have you ever advertised for love ? , either through a dating agency or of course many many newspapers carry erm , what , what they called , lonely hearts columns , now its alright you can vote , I 'm not going to pick on you particularly |
| 16 | The Type 11 system is basically a system of retrospective or prospective reimbursement , and is thus very similar to an insurance-based system or to systems such as the American Medicare payments system , where the insurance company , or the state , reimburses the hospital ( provider ) for care supplied . [ … ] |
| 17 | It appeared that my cousin John Reed , who had spent and wasted all his money and some of his mother 's , and been in debt or in prison most of his life , had killed himself a week before . |