Example sentences of "[art] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project is concerned with identifying those household characteristics that are systematically related to their position in the income or living standard distribution . |
| 2 | There are presently around 600 active volcanoes on the continents or exposed above the sea as islands . |
| 3 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 4 | Ruth had a phase of bringing home flowers obtained during her days of truancy : daffodils and tulips perhaps picked from the park or swiped off graves . |
| 5 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 6 | It also applies during the landing itself and the ground run , whether the wing-down or crabbing method is being used . |
| 7 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 8 | ( 3B ) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection ( 3A ) above if he proves that he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 9 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 10 | At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ? |
| 11 | The pubic or ‘ crab ’ louse is one of three members of the family Pediculidae , a sub-group of the Anoplura or sucking lice , to be of clinical interest to men . |
| 12 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 13 | Adding the complexity or letting the complexity be in silicone , which is very inexpensive and readily controlled and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ I will never speak to the NME or Sounds ever again . ’ |
| 15 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |
| 16 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |
| 17 | Administration of a drug to the mother also means its administration to the fetus or neonate through placental transfer or breast milk . |
| 18 | The coverage or covering capacity of an item is the number of things one can say with it . |
| 19 | The students may measure the cans or refer to the information sheet for dimensions . |
| 20 | ‘ It is easy to have the wool pulled over your eyes if you do n't know the ropes or do n't have someone reliable to operate for you , ’ a contented owner of property in Portugal told me . |
| 21 | Were the characters of these seven young ladies exactly as shown by the writer or have they been … massaged slightly for novelistic and televisual variety ? |
| 22 | The golfers , four amateurs of handicaps ranging from 13 to 5 and four professionals , were told not to waggle the clubs or to bend the shaft on the ground but just to hit the ball . |
| 23 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 24 | The business user decides how to describe the acquisition and puts it through the accounts or arranges finance through one of his existing sources of funding . |
| 25 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 26 | At this stage an important surf rule needs to be observed : never be in a position directly behind the board or rig as a wave approaches . |
| 27 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
| 28 | All committee minutes are circulated to the Board or tabled at its next meeting . |
| 29 | Did you get the sack or did you just pack it in ? |
| 30 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , pumpkin picking with the trick or treat brigade . |