Example sentences of "[coord] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mutations in the D-stem and/or the variable loop in tRNA Asp caused drastically decreased levels of m 1 G37 , Q34 , manQ34 and Ψ40 in the anticodon loop/stem , while the m 2 2G6 formation was unaffected and the rate of m 5 C49-formation was enhanced .
2 Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect .
3 Applicants should be graduates who have experience in water management issues related to agriculture and/or the rural environment in general , including water quality and pollution .
4 Closing the village school causes demographic change : reduced or selective inmigration , increased or selective outmigration , and/or the consequent aging of the residual population of the community .
5 If neither of these alternatives is in 's opinion practicable , will give notice to that effect and will immediately upon receipt of such notice cease all use of the Work and/or the Converted Text of the Work for the purposes of this Agreement .
6 One mutant ( H197K ) showed a 5-fold reduction in affinity for substance P but not in the affinities of other neurokinin peptides ( data not shown ) , which may indicate a perturbation of the substance P-receptor interaction as a result of the longer side chain and/or the positive charge of Lys197 .
7 Mr. Ashworth simply submits that any restriction on operating hours at the port is bound to interfere with trade and/or the free movement of goods , and thus contravenes article 30 .
8 We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR .
9 Any increase in the degree of trade union militancy and/or the expected rate of inflation will shift the augmented Phillips curve upwards ; any decrease in the degree of trade union militancy and/or the expected rate of inflation will shift the curve downwards .
10 Any increase in the degree of trade union militancy and/or the expected rate of inflation will shift the augmented Phillips curve upwards ; any decrease in the degree of trade union militancy and/or the expected rate of inflation will shift the curve downwards .
11 QUEEN BOADICEA & THE ROMAN TOWN AT STAMFORD
12 Within the community they made no attempt to ape the gentry , were accorded no special title , and yet enjoyed ‘ a certeine preheminence , and more estimation than labourers & the common sort of artificers ’ .
13 The new novel was rootedly ordinary , and the refined reflections of a Mrs Dalloway walking down Bond Street , for example , or the fantastic world of Tolkien 's Frodo , are equally alien to it .
14 Surely not , for biological propositions are not about emotion , or the subjective experience of mankind .
15 Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than [ £1,000 ] for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within the stock and work in progress are less than [ £10,000 ] both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation .
16 Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than £1,000 for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within fixed assets are less than £3,000 both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation .
17 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the transaction hereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount of value or the aggregate amount of value of the consideration exceeds thirty thousand pounds .
18 The investigators speculated that the lack of effect in their study population was due to the 6-monthly rather than 4-monthly dosing schedule , the low mortality rate in the control group , or the postulated lack of other nutrients , such as fat or zinc , in the diet .
19 They are acknowledged to have a specific connotation in architecture ; particular moments of contemporary Italian culture , though bearing a local label — that of the ‘ trans-avant-garde ’ ( transavanguardia ) , coined for the visual arts by Achille Bonita Oliva ( 1984 ) , or the philosophical notion of ‘ weak thought ’ ( pensiero debole ) , theorized in a series of books and essays by Gianni Vattimo , Pier Aldo Rovatti and their colleagues ( cf.
20 Opinions have been divided whether the spur and groove systems are due to erosion or the constructive action of corals .
21 Further information can be obtained from relevant MRP reports , MEG projects and other data which are available from , or on open file at , the British Geological Survey or the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland .
22 Only sometimes , on very quiet nights , could Frankie hear the hum of traffic or the distant chiming of the Town Hall clock to remind him that a whole city existed beyond the locked gates .
23 The scales across Fenna 's shoulders and haunches were as large as dinner plates , and thick , heavy and dry — they changed colour in different lights , from dull pewter through to a dark red , the colour of dried blood , or the murky green of the lower waters of the Amazon River .
24 Perhaps it was the lack of trees to soften its outline , or the dark stare of its latticed windows that gave it such an austere look ; but whatever it was , uninvited visitors were a rarity , so that when Amyas Roscarrock rode up on that showery day in July , his arrival attracted immediate interest among the family .
25 I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility .
26 How we all long for protection , like a pink ceramic nightlight of the Virgin , or the bleeding heart behind a strobe of crosses and candles !
27 Their talk had turned to the world beyond O-levels : finishing schools in Switzerland , modelling or secretarial courses , steady romances with the sons of their parents ' friends , or the heady excitement of the debutante season .
28 The mortgage allowance will be based on the difference between the selling price of the existing house and the lower of the purchase price of the new house or the estimated price of an equivalent new house .
29 ( 7 ) The period of the suspension of a licence under this section shall be a fixed period not exceeding one year or the unexpired portion of the duration of the licence , whichever is the less , and the effect of the suspension is that the licence shall cease to have effect during the period of the suspension .
30 The maximum period of suspension is one year or the unexpired period of the licence whichever is the less ( subs .
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