Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or the nannies and the nursemaids who lately pushed their prams up and down , and gossiped under the plane trees ? |
| 32 | The auditor is appointed at the Annual General Meeting of the PLC ( not by the shareholders or the directors or the officers ) . |
| 33 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 34 | In the heart or the head or the spine ? |
| 35 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 36 | Simmel 's work provides a focus for a review or the metamorphosis or the concept of objectification . |
| 37 | Read the novels that were popular then , or the poetry or the plays . |
| 38 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 39 | That 's the alley , yeah , or the ginnel or the snicket you know or in Liverpool they call it a jigger |
| 40 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 41 | It is important , but less important than keeping the boundaries , that 's only my view , and he along with Malcolm here , suggests that either myself or the Council or the Chairman of Council , somebody writes to the appropriate Secretary of State , to bring these matters to their attention . |
| 42 | I mean if you 've still got the original bag or the wrapper or , or the box or the price |
| 43 | Remember to cook beef from room temperature or the blood and the flavour will flood out of the meat . ’ |
| 44 | It was all hands to the pumps , or the typewriters or the files or the photocopier , as appropriate . |
| 45 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 46 | er the Nile delta or the Ganges or the Mississippi delta . |
| 47 | " You 're so lucky , you 're so lucky , " I murmured , staring down at the rocky Rockies or the Smokies or the Ropies through cloud-cover made of snow and contour tracing … |
| 48 | when they 're referring to the tractor or the horse or the car |
| 49 | If you have chosen to live in a home that is more expensive that the Department would normally pay and your circumstances change , or the people or the organisation helping to fund your care can no longer help , we will need to reassess your needs . |
| 50 | There are only really two main markets in Europe and that 's either the trucks or the excavators and the diggers off highway applications . |
| 51 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 52 | That conception makes it difficult to address sharp upheavals in the international system that occur in many periods of structural change , the rivalry between different countries that occurs in international trade and finance , or the impact that a country 's internal conditions ( such as the structure of its unions and management ) have on its international position . |
| 53 | ( 1 ) The section applies to the grant of a new licence , or the renewal or the permanent transfer of an existing licence , to a non-natural person . |
| 54 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 55 | The position of a particular animal , say the scorpion or the bat or the insect , is fixed in genetic space by the numerical value of its nine genes . |
| 56 | So we have given variable amounts of information about the speaker or the hearer or the time or the place as we have discussed different fragments of discourse . |
| 57 | And a belief that the Church ( if it could get its message right ) , more than the lawyers or the economists or the political leaders , was the chief hope for society and the world . |
| 58 | They do not give the press or the universities or the churches the right to broadcast respectively the programmes on the news , education or religion , or to determine how they should be broadcast ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 9 ) . |
| 59 | And if things are going wrong at home , or with the boyfriend or the baby and a girl is really distraught , the others will rally round and make her coffee , take the baby and feed it , because they understand , and they feel for her . |
| 60 | Such debts and claims are not rights over any specific tangible objects ; they are mere rights against the State or the corporation or the person liable to pay . |