Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Where State and/or public definitions of crime become less tolerant . |
| 4 | Most LDCs experience at regular intervals external current account ( deficit ) problems due to a lack of diversified exports and/or deteriorating terms of trade because many obtain more than 50 per cent of their export earnings from one or two products , e.g. Zambia regularly obtains over 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings from copper . |
| 5 | The outcomes of working in such ‘ teams ’ will include : poor communication and/or high level of conflict , limited or conditional commitment , poor quality decision making with limited innovation , inhibited implementation , confused objectives and poor motivation compromising performance . |
| 6 | Therefore , you have to decide the quickest and/or cheapest way of attending the interview . |
| 7 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 8 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 9 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 10 | We have investigated the differences in the architecture of the corresponding open complexes by comparing the positioning of holoenzymes reconstituted respectively with native or with truncated α-subunits ( containing the first 235 or 256 residues of a ) at two ‘ up ’ promoter mutants of the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters ( respectively lac UV5 and gal 9A16C ) . |
| 11 | Another way in which a patient may seek to achieve control over his fate once he has become incompetent is through the device of an Enduring or Durable Power of Attorney . |
| 12 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 13 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 14 | Smith ( 1960 ) has shown how images of the Pacific islanders were manipulated in these two directions , and Mitter ( 1977 ) has traced the varied history or European interpretations of Hindu sacred statuary , from viewing them initially as images of the devil , to finally incorporating them as works of art . |
| 15 | On the one hand , Duna is said to be thinking about buying the rights to a publish a Hungarian or European version of an unnamed US Unix programmers title , with current circulation of 7,000 . |
| 16 | It 's also important to note how important the affective , as opposed to merely informational or propositional component of conversation is . |
| 17 | Mice , too , are best caught in traps tucked beneath slates or inside lengths of pipe to avoid injuring birds . |
| 18 | In addition to the means of transport already discussed ( private car , rail and bus ) , some additional or innovative methods of ‘ getting about ’ have been introduced in rural areas of Britain . |
| 19 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 20 | whether the leader has a high or low level of authority and |
| 21 | The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them . |
| 22 | We have seen how entries in the internal lexicon can be more easily or less easily accessed according to whether they correspond to words which have a high or low frequency of occurrence in language . |
| 23 | Each country is ranked into three basic grades of high , medium or low degrees of effective centralisation in its union and employer federated organisations . |
| 24 | Geary ( 1985 ) has examined the historical pattern of industrial confrontation in Great Britain , looking for the distinctive features of periods marked by high or low levels of disorder . |
| 25 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 26 | Sure , injecting high doses of morphine , or low doses of morphine in a patient like this , contributes to his demise , but so does turning off the respirator , so I do n't think there 's any difference really . |
| 27 | This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely … |
| 28 | For the coarser particles sieve screens are formed of plates or strong wire of stainless steel or brass , and finer wire meshes are used for smaller particles . |
| 29 | One reason for this is that women ( and men , of course ) are often faced with the problem of negotiating contradictory or conflicting conceptions of themselves . |
| 30 | This is a fairy story version of race relations and it may reflect the hubris or wishful thinking of an intelligentsia which sets up its own preferred cultural practices as a referential model for everyone else . |