Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ( and your partner ) have savings and/or investments amounting to more than £8,000 you will not be entitled to claim benefit . |
| 2 | To do so , both verbs and nouns need to be qualified by adjectives and/or adverbs determined by the choreographers during the making of the design . |
| 3 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
| 4 | Sticks or twigs can be used for poles , and ‘ chains ’ or necklaces suspended from ‘ pole ’ to ‘ pole ’ . |
| 5 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 6 | The test will check that there are no sharp edges or projections arising from damage or excessive corrosion likely to give rise to injury . |
| 7 | In the London sample , one-tenth of classrooms had tables or desks arranged in rows : in Leeds we observed none ( though that is not to say that none existed ) . |
| 8 | Please remember to include a return , or senders address on the parcel . |
| 9 | In both children and adults there may be a rash of tiny red-purple spots or bruises caused by bleeding under the skin . |
| 10 | Birthmarks , or other natural defects , were thought to be marks or bruises left by elves , and Queen Margaret insulted Shakespeare 's Richard III accordingly : |
| 11 | A similar strategy , explored by Salop and Scheffman ( 1987 ) , is where integration or contracts entered into by the incumbent have the effect of raising rivals costs , e.g. where a contract with a supplier specifies that an input will only be supplied to an entrant at a higher price than that enjoyed by the incumbent . |
| 12 | Parliament , moreover , was open to considerable royal influence , since a large proportion of its members , both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons , held offices , pensions or contracts awarded by the Crown . |
| 13 | Requests for the metal are made in telexes in the names of banks or solicitors acting for the buyer . |
| 14 | Any conferences , conventions or meetings paid for from Federal funds will be held only in hotels complying with this law . |
| 15 | speaks at masses or meetings writes for the newsletter |
| 16 | The fibres they use may be long creepers , thin rootlets , ribbon-like leaves such as those of grasses or reeds , or strips torn from broad leaves such as bananas . |
| 17 | The limitation on the scheme is that the works must come from galleries or artists operating within the region covered by Northern Arts 's territory . |
| 18 | The exquisite workmanship is reminiscent of Sassetta or artists associated with him . |
| 19 | What do the following gestures or attitudes mean to you ? |
| 20 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 21 | Candidates for the degree of PhD pursue a research project , under the continuous guidance of a supervisor who is a member of the University staff , or is on the staff of one of the research units or institutions associated with the University , for a period of not less than 36 months if studying full-time , or 48 months if part-time . |
| 22 | Tasks or programmes need to be treated as ‘ temporary systems ’ — that is , operations with defined objectives , internal plans for action , linked to scales of time and resource , with built-in mechanisms for monitoring progress and evaluating results — a cardinal principle at every level . |
| 23 | Whenever articles are written or programmes broadcast about consumer rights , they always seem to put the trader into the ‘ bad boy ’ box . |
| 24 | These are : ( i ) no television picture may be used in any light entertainment programmes or programmes designed as political satire ; ( ii ) extracts from televised proceedings may be used in broadcast ‘ magazine ’ programmes which also contain music or humorous features , provided that the different types of item are kept separate ; ( iii ) televised proceedings may not be used in party political broadcasts ; and ( iv ) no extracts of televised proceedings may be used in any form of advertising or publicity , other than in the form of programme trailers . |
| 25 | The relative merits of measuring Z or h-parameters rests on which of the signal termination conditions is the easier to provide . |
| 26 | This grant included those territories or cities disputed between Lombardy and the pope , and basically reaffirmed arrangements made between Charles ' father , Pepin le Bref , and Rome . |
| 27 | THERE are still bargains to be found among the terraced property and this one on the books of J Trevor & Sons looks to be worthy of closer inspection . |
| 28 | For the equivalent of £8.20 there was fruit juice , grapefruit , croissant or pastries followed by as many rashers of British bacon and British eggs as customers could manage . |
| 29 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 30 | It follows that this can also be the only source of power available to parents or guardians faced with the task of civilising a new-born infant . |