Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] or the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment of experimental interrogation it must choose the stark alternative of one or the other . |
| 2 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 3 | As as we 've actually had policy er criterion eleven raised by Mr , erm I don' think there 's any dissenting voice about the weight on that or the importance of that particular criterion , is that regional and sub-regional policies . |
| 4 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 5 | The Secretary of State for Wales was authorised to give financial assistance to LEAs for the teaching of Welsh or the use of Welsh as a medium for teaching other subjects . |
| 6 | Such a grant or renewal is a purpose under the Act of 1963 or the Act of 1968 and not of the 1976 Act . |
| 7 | Acts that define the powers of the various state organs ( for example , the 1911 and 1949 Parliament Acts ) and acts that define the relationship between Crown and Parliament ( notably the Bill of Rights of 1689 ) , between the component elements of the nation ( the Act of Union with Scotland of 1706 , for example ) , between the United Kingdom and the European Communities ( the 1972 European Communities Act ) , and between the state and the individual ( as with the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 or the Administration of Justice Act of 1960 ) clearly constitute important provisions of the Constitution . |
| 8 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 9 | All of the uses of the to infinitive with full verbs in the corpus fall into one or the other of these two categories . |
| 10 | Informal enquiries may be made to Professor David Storey on 0203–523692 or the Director of the S.M.E. Centre , Ian Watson on 0203–523741 , extension 2233 . |
| 11 | Nor is it very daring in the monolithic two-party system of the USA , where the narrow choice is between two rich , conservative ( in a wide sense ) white men , to offer allegiance to one or the other . |
| 12 | You often get this if you have a very strong guitarist or a strong keyboard player — you end up with a group without one or the other ; they just ca n't co-exist . |
| 13 | It therefore becomes imperative that if we see an activation of the macroscopic current , that we are able to express that activation in terms of a change in one or the other of those so-called microscopic parameters . |
| 14 | This is not the place to summarize the rest of the curriculum debate and many important documents , whether from HMI ( Curriculum 11–16 in 1977 , A View of the Curriculum in 1980 ) or the DES ( A Framework for the School Curriculum in 1980 or The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum in 1984 ) : Chapter 1.1 provides some detail . |
| 15 | A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone . |
| 16 | So far I see little prospect of one or the other . |
| 17 | This problem of historical relativism is one of the most besetting for anyone who wishes to read an old book without either getting it hopelessly wrong or , worse , assuming that the fact that we are modern and the author of the book ‘ medieval ’ or ‘ old ’ implies the superiority of one or the other . |
| 18 | Edward 's coup was not , therefore , followed by the lavish displays of patronage which had followed Edward II 's victory in 1322 or the triumph of Mortimer and Isabella in 1327 , and there was no immediate and general reversal of the judgements of 1326–7 . |
| 19 | Is it enough for society in general or the patient in particular to leave decisions over life and death to the doctor ? |
| 20 | Bleeding from peptic ulcer persists or recurs early in 25% of cases , which carries a high death rate related to the severity of bleeding or the need for surgical treatment . |
| 21 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 22 | The software is expected to be deliverable by the end of 1992 or the beginning of 1993 . |
| 23 | The new appointments , all made at the end of 1861 or the beginning of 1862 , bespoke a regime that was about to make further changes . |
| 24 | USL must wait for OSF/DCE 1.0.3 for this and is hoping to have something out at the end of 1993 or the beginning of 1994 . |
| 25 | Early in 1983 , a consensus seemed to be emerging among theorists using computer models of the atmosphere that this material , now spreading across the northern hemisphere , would lead to a cooling of perhaps half a degree Centigrade , with the peak effect occurring in the late summer of 1983 or the winter of 1983–84 . |
| 26 | Structural innovation means the introduction of new credit instruments or the development of new kinds of business by banks , such as the invention by Citibank of Certificates of Deposit in 1965 or the introduction of Money Market Funds and NOW accounts by Merrill Lynch in the mid-1970s . |
| 27 | If one is between York and Leeds , one has a a more distinct choice as to go to one or the other . |
| 28 | Most illnesses probably contain elements of both , but with a preponderance of one or the other which allows us to classify them accordingly . |
| 29 | Therefore the great extent of one or the other at various times in the past , might be no more than a measure of the width of the contemporary climatic belts . |
| 30 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |