Example sentences of "of [noun pl] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 2 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | A herd of deer , a pride of lions or a pack of wolves has a certain rudimentary coherence and unity of purpose . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | This may be a brief summary of reasons or a full decision dictated by the chairman . |
| 6 | They could involve matching a variety of situations or uses to a list of products or a list of items using those products ; they could involve putting the benefits of the product in order of merit or they could take the form of a question and answer quiz with specified answers from which to choose . |
| 7 | Rice flails , which could not be taken into football matches , were used in street battles , as also were edges of razor blades taped to the inside of fingers or the instep of boots . |
| 8 | Attention must be given to ways in which pressure groups secure or resist policies through their power to take actions that directly affect either the success of policies or the stability of the political system . |
| 9 | At Plymouth County Court , Judge Cox said that South West Water was allowed to discharge effluent into the water , but its legal discharge consent made no mention of phosphates or the detergents which cause foaming , technically called surfactants . |
| 10 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 11 | And no sign of chains or a whip or iron bars . |
| 12 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
| 13 | The composer wrote the song , piano solo , quartet or whatever for a particular purpose and for particular soloists , groups of musicians or an orchestra . |
| 14 | One could then find out what else was available on emigration , or on Cornish tin-miners , or on southern Wisconsin , or the nineteenth century , or any permutation of two or more in relation to other topics , such as the design of houses or the techniques of mining , or at another level of student understanding , or another format entirely . |
| 15 | It is a philosophical commonplace that we can not learn very much about human language from the singing of birds or the dancing of bees . |
| 16 | Pensions : Tax relief will be available for people making their own pension arrangements independently of employers or the state . |
| 17 | And then erm they 'll have a couple of hours or an hour break there probably and then erm |
| 18 | In other words — in , to be precise , the words of the public relations bureau of the Cucumber and Tomato Marketing Board — the tomato which commands the highest price is an all-purpose ( or is it non-purpose ? ) product ; " not every mouth " and I quote " can afford to choose caviare instead of kippers or an aristocratic difficult low yielding variety of tomato rather than a less fastidious tomato with a heavy yield . " |
| 19 | In practice , because an infinite range of frequencies or an infinite time of testing is never achieved , the interconvertibility of creep , stress-relaxation and dynamic data is not possible and approximations have to be used . |
| 20 | A decree published by the High Committee of State ( HCE ) on Aug. 15 gave the authorities additional powers to order the suspension or closure of any enterprise the activities of which " endanger public order , public security , the normal functioning of institutions or the higher interests of the country " . |
| 21 | So whether you have a number of blanks or a number of punched holes side by side you 'll get floats . |
| 22 | As a result , CPRW 's branches are actively involved in influencing the objectives and performance of the County and District planning system , and regularly express their views on the orientation of plans or the merits of individual applications . |
| 23 | The " putting together " signified by the heading to this category is a skill which may be needed at all or several stages of study , from the formulation of plans or an enquiry up to the creation of a product … |
| 24 | Not that he should listen , he hastened to add , to all the sermons of clergymen or the arguments of ‘ bigoted , genteel prudes ’ . |
| 25 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 26 | For otherwise how can we ever be sure whether Beethoven intends for us to see a horde of goblins or a host of elephants ? ’ |
| 27 | A personalised nine man 's morris board or an original game might be produced by individuals or groups of peoples or a description with illustrations of popular tattoo motifs , like . |
| 28 | For television is not a ‘ neutral ’ provider of images or a mere facilitator , it has increasingly determined the manner in which high performance sport is played and presented to the public . |
| 29 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 30 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |