Example sentences of "or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This is all very interestin' , ’ said the Mayor , ‘ but I ca n't say one way or t' other , it 'll have to be discussed in council and there 's yon bridge to be seen to now .
2 They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop .
3 If you want to load the odds in favour of one or t' other , then send your letters to either ‘ Bash ’ or ‘ Lash ’ at ZZAP !
4 A little awkward piece of one or t' other I think her .
5 ‘ One or t' other and I do n't mind which . ’
6 Is it a localized condition or the sign of a generalized bodily disorder ?
7 Sometimes sharp points develop on the edges of the teeth which will lacerate the tongue or the inside of the cheek .
8 Can I feel more pressure on the outside or the inside of my feet ?
9 Read the book it will tell you there 's probably an explanation on the cover or the inside of the cover pass me the coffee please .
10 But the theory is that if we , if we get to know what the , the purpose er o o of the job or , or the assignment is , er then we , we stand a slightly better chance of er getting a satisfied client at the end of the day .
11 Frequent long motorway journeys are a feature of the Kings ' life , and while the larger and more powerful 405 is favoured for these trips , the 305 is equally at home on the school run or the motorway .
12 Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft .
13 Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour .
14 A trust is what is left not in civil-law words but precatively , and is dependent not on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention or the settlor .
15 Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession .
16 Either can be got rid of by bleeding the radiator at the air vent ( page 154 ) , but if this needs doing frequently , find the cause of the air getting in or the corrosion and cure .
17 This seems to be inconsistent with the proposition that a higher standard applies where the director possesses relevant skills , but is presumably explicable on the basis that the higher standard relates only to distinct forms of professional expertise , such as that of the actuary or the physician referred to by Romer J , and not where the experience or expertise that the director has acquired is that of a business manager .
18 These classes were , by and large , closed ; access to the nobility or the peasantry was determined by birth , though occasionally peasants could escape from feudal bondage to the towns , and rich merchants were sometimes able to purchase titles and estates .
19 Resolving these issues without generating revolts on the part of the gentry or the peasantry required a balancing act which tested the regime to the limits .
20 Some actors find the character initially in the posture , the clothes , or the make-up , but Dustin almost invariably works from the voice , perhaps because his own is rather nasal , flat and nondescript .
21 Or the make-up bag if you want .
22 Other derivatives markets , such as the financial swaps market with its standard documentation , or the forex market , with its common computer equipment , may also appear to operate on a multilateral basis .
23 Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election .
24 Not for Otaka the near-hysterical passion of Ashkenazy , the laid-back portamento style of Litton , the intoxicating flair of Ormandy , or the knife-edge brilliance of Maazel .
25 As one member of the profession has aptly observed : ‘ It is not too difficult — it does not wrench the mind too painfully — for the historian or the humanist to accept the notion of ‘ living his way ’ into the totality of a culture .
26 Cleaning invariably begins and ends at the sink whether installations use domestic equipment or the 450 litre giants or the catering ‘ plonge ’ .
27 ‘ Stop … or the monarchy may not survive ’
28 John 's extreme aggression to himself and others was a sign that he was no longer responsive to self-control or the standard of protective control which his family could offer .
29 Very little is known about wages and prices or the standard of living before the Industrial Revolution : this project aims to explore some of this ground by the systematic collection of data from estate records , tax rolls , JPs ' records , merchants ' papers and other sources .
30 In such cases there might be different sorts of motivation , such as the prestige which accrued from the production of a large coinage in the state 's name or the profit which came to the state from the minting fee .
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