Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 2 | In cases of death the cause was established either from the case notes or from the Registrar of Births and Deaths . |
| 3 | An additional initiative available is to advertise the opportunity either in the Financial Times or on the Accountants Business Network ( ‘ ABN ’ ) . |
| 4 | Items that do not respond to immediate cleaning are placed in to soak , rather than holding up progress , and dealt with later during slack times or at the end of a session . |
| 5 | It is in this last capacity that Hitler 's image as perceived by his loyal ‘ following ’ — functioning within the framework of ‘ charismatic politics ’ — played its crucial role , as not only the leaders of Party and State , but those in responsible intermediary positions — whether for ideological reasons or for a variety of careerist or other motives little related in essence to principled hatred of Jews — ‘ read ’ Hitler 's vaguely expressed ‘ intent ’ as a green light for radicalizing actions which developed their own dynamic and momentum . |
| 6 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 7 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 8 | The answer they came up with was the cash unit trust — where instead of investing in equities , they invest in high interest cash deposit accounts or into a variety of fixed interest securities such as gilts or local authority bonds . |
| 9 | A further provision of SI 274 extends the exemption to companies other than listed companies and those listed on specified exchanges , provided that the advertisement meets the general criteria , and consists of or is accompanied by the whole or any part of the body corporate 's annual accounts or by the directors ' report . |
| 10 | Existing lighting was supplied by the hazardous open flame of candles , oil lamps or by a steel mill , a method of producing sparks of light by holding a flint against a spinning steel wheel . |
| 11 | But it is unlikely to happen at the hustings or in the run up to the election . |
| 12 | It is not a master plan for member states or for the development of Europe , but it will provide a useful reference for member states and others to enable them to take decisions with due regard to the European dimension . |
| 13 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 14 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 15 | If the terms are too one-sided , they may provoke customer resistance , leading to a battle of forms or to the loss of potential custom and a bad trading reputation . |
| 16 | Could we forecast the effect of the new road on traffic flows or on the price of adjacent land suitable for commercial or residential development ? |
| 17 | The task of ordering the Church 's worship is too awesome to be left to chance , either in the hope that the person responsible for it will pick up the necessary skills or in the belief that it can be done by anyone . |
| 18 | Now only a single motif could be seen , worn openly on chest or collar , on hems or in the form of jewellery , on pendants about the neck or emblazoned on a ring or brooch : the double-helix of heredity . |
| 19 | Tasks allocated to — records the distribution of activities such as giving out books , going errands or within the class organisation eg group work tasks . |
| 20 | Ionomers : synthetic polymers containing ionisable groups , either covalently bound to polymer chains or in the polymer matrix . |
| 21 | Despite the possibility of infinite variation in detail and in method , those who teach in school have to admit that realistically they will teach broadly what is required , either by employers or by the universities themselves . |
| 22 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 23 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 24 | He said clients keen to move into Britain have had deals ‘ in the pipeline ’ but were delaying them out of concern about a Labour government 's competition policies or in the hope of further interest rate cuts . |
| 25 | It believes that the mere fact of travelling to North Korea without evidence either of espionage activities or of the use or advocacy of violence does not justify imprisonment . |
| 26 | There can be no simple or single explanation either of the great armies of more or less organized knights or of the rabble of thoroughly disorganized folk who followed the popular leader Peter the Hermit . |
| 27 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 28 | In 1799 he settled as a barrister in Newcastle upon Tyne , rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation as a man of strict integrity and sound judgement , whether in the courts or as an arbitrator in industrial disputes . |
| 29 | Such national rules may have to be challenged by individuals in national courts or by the Commission before the ambit of this restriction of the ‘ general good ’ is finally resolved . |
| 30 | 2 FREE Air Miles with every 25 litres of Shell Advanced Fuels or with every litre of Shell Oil . |