Example sentences of "or [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complex human behaviour is seen as established sequences or chains of S-R bonds . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 3 | As soon as you spot caterpillars , their eggs or signs of caterpillar damage such as ragged holes in leaves and the tell-tale small faeces , search them out and squash them . |
| 4 | During emergency periods or times of air pollution episode potential , consideration should be given to temporarily closing polluting plants or requiring fuel switching to be adopted by larger industry . |
| 5 | Crimes , mental illnesses , or cases of child abuse for that matter , are not simply ‘ waiting ’ to be recognised and managed by various officials and then explained by ‘ experts ’ . |
| 6 | That is , their meanings are not ‘ given ’ by some set of facts , but rather by the way in which these facts are interpreted by observers in a form that makes them recognisable as crimes , mental illnesses or cases of child abuse . |
| 7 | Most of the categories in McClellan 's suggested list correspond to Dewey classes or groups of Dewey classes . |
| 8 | What can I do ? ? — Donations of gifts of food or goodies : gift tokens or donations can be left at the John Paul Centre ( daytime or Knights of St Columba , Southfield Road , ( evenings ) to enable the CAUSE group to make up suitable Christmas Hampers . |
| 9 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 10 | In other words , according to the neurophysiological CTP , sensation , perception , experience , consciousness , are intimately related to , or even boil down to , large numbers of trains or patterns of nerve impulses . |
| 11 | Serve with crudités or fingers of pitta bread . |
| 12 | Ten areas in England ( registration districts or combinations of registration districts ) were chosen in 1984 , and 20 different areas in England and Wales ( to achieve a wider geographical spread ) were selected in 1989 . |
| 13 | Conductors and hospital administrators come out of courses in conducting or schools of hospital administration respectively . |
| 14 | However , such tax credits were not granted to agencies or branches of insurance companies which were not registered in France . |
| 15 | Many of the graves had flowers on them — wilting asters and marigolds in jam-jars , or vases of plastic roses and daffodils in luminous colours . |
| 16 | A sociological theory is therefore a set of ideas which claims to explain how society or aspects of society work . |
| 17 | Up to the present time , the study of language and its relation both to processes involved in language performance and to processes underlying the activity of reasoning have been fragmented , split into the separate disciplines of linguistics , artificial intelligence , pragmatics ( the study of human communication ) , and psychology , each with their own theoretical models of language or aspects of language use . |
| 18 | If the new regulations gain parliamentary approval , producers or importers of consumer goods will be obliged to recover packaging , either themselves or through a hired contractor , by the start of next year . |
| 19 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 20 | Peru , Bolivia and Colombia opposed US proposals , made at a preparatory meeting in Quito , Ecuador , in early February , to allow aircraft or warships of member countries of a " regional conference and action group " to enter each other 's territory , sea or airspace in pursuit of drug traffickers . |
| 21 | As I have explained in Working Paper 43 , and developed in Organizing Resources , this indexing system depends upon the initial production of " features lists " , or lists of subject headings , the subject facets which it is desired to be able to retrieve from the system . |
| 22 | These projects can involve exchanges between students of member states or periods of work experience in another European country . |
| 23 | A module is an ideal vehicle for certificating learning during short exchanges or periods of work experience . |
| 24 | Of Brazil 's 58 million children and adolescents , almost a fifth work full-time as delivery boys , rural workers , shoe-shiners or gatherers of waste paper . |
| 25 | People of all types with unusual objects upon their person are also considered suspicious , whether this be holdalls or pocketfuls of 2p pieces ( suspected of being used to entice children ) . |
| 26 | We equate service with menial tasks ; we are not educated in service management and we lack good examples or models of service excellence . |
| 27 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 28 | That organists or directors of music work to recruit both boys and girls for their choir , and that both sexes be given equal opportunities and encouragement ( 594–597 ) . |
| 29 | We can only wish good luck to the chairmen or directors of Morgan Grenfell , Amec . |
| 30 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |