Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of new or innovative products and of variances in European working practices , processes and technologies must also be examined . |
| 2 | These are roles of advocacy on the part of individual or collective needs , monitoring of standards in a general or specific way and of exercising occasional social control . |
| 3 | Upon notice being given to the Corporation that the motor car described in the Schedule is to be laid up and out of use for a period of not less than four consecutive weeks ( otherwise than as a result of loss or damage covered by the Policy ) and subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policy will be automatically suspended as from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation except as regards loss of or damage to such motor car by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft and on renewal a refund of 75% of the pro rata premium for the suspended period will be deducted from the renewal premium . |
| 4 | The majority of public relations staff are found in London or regional consultancies and within commercial companies . |
| 5 | The underclass is deeply functional ; all industrial countries have one in greater or lesser measure and in one form or another . |
| 6 | It was an impossible balancing act : the Junkers were after industry and a highly developed industrial working class without democracy or social revolution and without any devolution of ancient privilege . |
| 7 | From discussions with dealers , the central topic was the continuing importance of the fair as a forum for exposing new or foreign artists and for making contacts with collectors and curators , even if gallerists did not reap immediate sales from the latter . |
| 8 | Left : Refectory table in pine , from 137 cm by 76 cm , from £725 , also available in natural or limed oak and in various painted finishes ; Peasant chair in pine , £110 |
| 9 | Plots can be produced in up to eight colours with a step size of either 0.025mm or 0.1 mm and with a repeatability of 0.1 mm or less . |
| 10 | Depending on personal choice , the service can be used for brief or longer-term counselling and for dealing with any problems which might interfere with personal achievement and well-being . |
| 11 | Depending on personal choice , the service can be used for brief or longer-term counselling and for dealing with any problems which might interfere with personal achievement and well-being . |
| 12 | The African elephant lives mainly on grassland or wooded savanna and in light forest , though there are African elephants that live in rain forests at up to 8,000 ft ( 2.44m ) . |
| 13 | In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something . |
| 14 | At the parliament which met in November 1279 Pecham was forced to withdraw not only the order to display and expound Magna Carta but also the excommunication against royal officers who ignored writs of caption or seized or wasted temporalities and against any of the suitors of illegitimate prohibitions . |
| 15 | Further data will be provided by case studies in two or three areas and by searches of secondary sources of material . |
| 16 | The L3 enter the mucosa of any part of the small or large intestine and in some species ( Oe. columbianum , Oe. radiatum , Oe. quadrispinulatum ) become enclosed in obvious nodules in which the moult to L4 takes place ( P1.III ) . |
| 17 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 18 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 19 | Many of the questions did not encourage informative or useful replies and in these cases pupils discovered they had not thought of enough questions or areas for inquiry in the time allocated . |
| 20 | Nor , more abstractedly , could it be the result of a perspective on the informational content of the brain ; for , in either case , the perspective would have to be the occurrence of some further brain or informational state and to both of these the scientist has complete access , and the problem reoccurs . |
| 21 | 3.1 The right at [ any time during the Term or reasonable times and upon reasonable notice except in cases of emergency ] to enter ( or in cases of emergency to break and enter ) the Premises : |
| 22 | A mortgagee is not , in our judgment , to be deprived of a contractual or equitable right to add costs to the security merely by reason of an order for payment of costs made without reference to the mortgagee 's contractual or equitable rights and without any adjudication as to whether or not the mortgagee should be deprived of those costs . |
| 23 | Building societies do not buy company or overseas securities and in 1987 were actually net sellers of government securities . |
| 24 | an analysis of extraordinary items to show whether each individual extraordinary item relates to pre- or post-merger events and to which party the item relates . |
| 25 | In the later eighteenth century the ‘ useful ’ poorly-paid parish priest becomes a reformer 's hero ; he might be counted on as a leader of the Economic or Patriotic Societies and as a propagandist of improved agricultural methods . |
| 26 | The emphasis is on diagnosis and treatment by medical or surgical means and on the measures available for the prevention and control of disease . |
| 27 | He was accused of using threatening or insulting behaviour and of assaulting a police officer . |
| 28 | Among the ten African countries for which the appeal was made , there was a mix of hope , on the one hand , hope for progress in Eritrea or Liberia , Mozambique or Ethiopia and on the other hand , countries of despair Somalia that we 've heard about today , or southern Sudan and of course , Angola . |
| 29 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 30 | Distance or open learning and on the job activities may be some of these , as well as supervised research for further qualifications , teaching ( for those in non-teaching posts ) , practice ( for those in teaching posts ) , structured home reading , preparing articles for the technical and professional press , sabbaticals and paid educational leave , practice review/practitioner research , and self-help groups . |