Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the main lesson is that there are no short cuts to choosing a university course or choosing a university . |
| 2 | The extent to which local authority initiatives divert schools from particular curriculum policies or lead them towards new approaches within the curriculum is , however , impossible to estimate . |
| 3 | 5.6 makes it obligatory ( with certain exceptions ) for a person conducting building operations or changing the use of a building to apply to the buildings authority for a warrant authorising the proposed works . |
| 4 | The NCC favours a fixed licence fee with 100 per cent rebates for people on income support or housing benefit . |
| 5 | the main , or one of the main , reasons for the business ' structure was to avoid registration ( not , say , due to the partial exemption rules or to get limited liability protection or facilitate a part sale ) ; |
| 6 | Moreover pupils need to learn appropriate modes of behaviour for a range of off-site learning activities , e.g. a visit to a cathedral , a climb up to a hill fort , following a town heritage trail or exploring a castle . |
| 7 | Garnish the guacamole with chilli powder or coriander sprigs , then serve in the centre of a plate of tortilla chips . |
| 8 | But I never developed symbols for whammy bars and screaming dive bombs or scraping the strings . |
| 9 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 10 | Fry again urged Flashman , who insists he wo n't sell to any consortium which will employ his former manager , to leave the Third Division club or risk its future . |
| 11 | If you need more forms simply contact the Fundraising Department or photocopy the one supplied . |
| 12 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 13 | If the graphics controller on your PC is part of the motherboard then you may need to disable it by removing a jumper switch , altering a DIP switch or running the BIOS setup program . |
| 14 | Eighteen patients had a skin biopsy or had a lesion removed , but no tests other than the usual histological examination were necessary . |
| 15 | Bank of America on Aug. 28 also denied that it had violated banking guidelines or issued or accepted fraudulent bankers ' receipts . |
| 16 | Mr Browne , MP for Winchester since 1979 , said he was defending the right of his constituents to decide who they wished to have as MP , and added : ‘ None of the five ex-supporters is either my election agent or holds any other official appointment within my organisation . ’ |
| 17 | Thus at any particular point in that debate ministers will have to weigh the merits of cutting the hospital building programme or holding down nurses ' salaries against raising the prescription charge , or of reducing the number of home students against charging a higher fee to overseas students . |
| 18 | The credibility of our called ministry stands or falls with respect to the other priorities that God has laid out for us . |
| 19 | However , no hard-pressed city government is likely to fund accident reduction research or to experiment with possibly expensive infrastructure provision or management methods , especially as the cost saving from accident reduction does not for the most part accrue to the authority itself . |
| 20 | I mean even when you 're young and play football or running there you know at the start of a season you know |
| 21 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 22 | Every day about noon [ the monarch ] sits upon his throne , with some of his sons at his right and left , while the eunuchs who stand about the royal person flap away the flies with peacock tails or agitate the air with large fans … |
| 23 | The most likely context for discovering the qualities of jade would have been in the course of grinding and polishing axe or adze blades , one of the most widespread components of the Neolithic tool-kit from Europe to China . |
| 24 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 25 | JAZZ DANCE has caught on slowly in this country , and most of what we see is attendant on musicals , cabaret acts or pop videos . |
| 26 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 27 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 28 | Students away from the university , say on a sandwich course or having a year abroad , might or might not be included in lists one used . |
| 29 | For the teacher who favours the process model , a development like study skills or reading for leisure would hardly be seen as extra to the curriculum , and for some , even the enhancement of the physical environment can not be divorced from those learning experiences in which education consists : that is to say , " the medium is the message " ( McLuhan cited in Postman and Weingarter , 1971 ) . |
| 30 | We can reach for the tape measure or stopwatch to see if a standard has been reached ; but we turn to our inner judgement to assess the quality . |