Example sentences of "[coord] in a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last example , uses the OR in a similar fashion to the numeric operators ( + , - , etc ) . |
| 2 | It must be ensured that the process of reorganisation does not result in lasting damage to competition [ and ] Community law must therefore include provisions governing those concentrations which may impede effective competition in the common market or in a substantial part of it . |
| 3 | It will be incompatible if it creates or strengthens a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded in the Common Market or in a substantial part of it . |
| 4 | Instead of having to prove substantial fettering of competition , it may now be enough for the Commission to show that competition has already been weakened by the presence of the dominant undertaking and that some further action on its part would impede the maintenance or development of effective competition in ( or in a substantial part of the Common Market . |
| 5 | The Commission will prohibit a merger if it concludes that the merger would create or strengthen a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded in the common market or in a substantial part of it . |
| 6 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 7 | Unless your rug is very old or in a poor state of repair — in which case a specialist cleaner should be consulted — the best way to remove grit and dirt is to use a carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner with beater bars . |
| 8 | In a large community such a marginal role may be possible , and the researcher can move from one group to another without difficulty , but in a small village , or in a small community in a larger town , it is essential that the researcher be ‘ placed ’ in some way . |
| 9 | Whether you intend starting married life in a rented flat , your own home , or in a spare room at your parents ' , good financial planning is essential . |
| 10 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 11 | In Britain and the United States judges are selected from lawyers , usually only after many years in practice , in Britain as an advocate , and in the United States as an advocate or in a legal post within the government . |
| 12 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 13 | Heat the beeswax and almond oil in a double enamel boiler or in a heatproof dish over a pan of simmering water . |
| 14 | Coarsely grind peppercorns using a pestle and mortar , or in a strong bowl with the end of a rolling pin . |
| 15 | Panels can also be supplied unglazed , or in a wide range of plain , patterned , leaded , or thermo-ceramic coloured decorative glass . |
| 16 | Now , just a short time after the ‘ Currency , Economic and Social Union ’ , almost 20 per cent of the workforce is unemployed or in a desperate situation as a result of the imposition of short-time working . |
| 17 | The larger books ( folio ) are often grouped together on the lower shelves of a particular stack or in a separate sequence of shelves . |
| 18 | There are no instant fixes , either in terms of an absolutist retreat to the class-based socialism of the past , or in a headlong rush to the classless social democracy that has so often been portrayed as the only future . |
| 19 | Dummy records can be provided to take the place of this space , by placing them where additions are expected , or in a pre-determined pattern throughout the file . |
| 20 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 21 | Such agreement may be express , and contained in a separate instrument of variation or in a written minute of the decision taken , or it may be implied from the conduct of the partners . |
| 22 | Enable people to live as normal a life as possible in their own homes or in a homely environment in the community . |
| 23 | Such contradictions can be productive : the attempt to reject historicism absolutely results either in an utter particularism or in a surreptitious return of historicism in a different form . |
| 24 | Baldwin … declared his readiness to serve the country , either in a National government or in a Conservative government with Liberal support . |
| 25 | Individual properties are parts of events or in a related relation to events , however events are conceived . |
| 26 | Although psychiatric inpatient care , either in a psychiatric hospital or in a psychiatric unit in the general hospital , is only necessary for a small proportion of attempted suicide patients ( see Table 10 ) , this group is particularly important because it includes the patients likely to be at greatest risk of subsequent suicide and some who pose particularly difficult management problems . |
| 27 | Alice then , all clean and brushed , and in a nice blouse with the small pink flowers and the neat round collar , walked out of the house and went next door , to No. 45 , as though she had been planning to do this all day . |
| 28 | A new law introducing more stringent measures against racism and anti-Semitism was approved by the National Assembly in a first reading on May 3 , 1990 , and in a final reading on June 30 ( it was not considered by the Senate , which saw no need for textual revisions ) . |
| 29 | Gradually the downward thrust of his naked loins became more urgent and uncontrolled , and in a final moment of spasm , his features spread and widened suddenly into a flattened mask . |
| 30 | The overwhelming popular approval of the Constitution was accepted as a de facto election of Aquino as President , and in a general election on May 11 , 1987 , candidates endorsed by the President won a decisive majority in the new Congress [ see pp. 35321-22 ] . |