Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] or [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 2 | For some reason or other a believer gets into his head such a wrong idea of God that it comes between him and God or between him and his trusting God . |
| 3 | I really believe that for some reason or other the place is frightening him out of his wits . |
| 4 | Any claim that a certain state or government , regime or society is " really " or " in the last analysis democratic , however implausible it may seem , must involve the implication that in some way or other the government , regime or state in question serves or represents the people ; that the " real " will of the people is expressed through it , or that the people support it , even if this support is not necessarily demonstrated through such formalities as elections . |
| 5 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 6 | At some time or other the twin siren songs of forward and backward integration have led most large companies to do everything for themselves from manufacturing their own plant and spares , sometimes even as far as owning their own retail outlets . |
| 7 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 8 | Journalists worried that ‘ MDs ’ appointed by the government would not ‘ cover ’ them ; and independence indeed remained a fragile plant : there was an election of one sort or another every year between 1977 and 1981 . |
| 9 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 10 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 11 | This is designed for situations where for one reason or another the work can not be fully described in advance and therefore a price can not be agreed . |
| 12 | For one reason or another the loyalty of the squadron of some other loyalty said " no I wo n't join the Pathfinders , I want to stay where I am " . |
| 13 | And for one reason or another the subcontractor bowled up on site on the Saturday afternoon and decided to do it then . |
| 14 | The subscription was 5/- a year if paid in one sum or 1/6 a quarter but all persons under 20 years of age one shilling quarterly , for which they received a signed ticket of admission and also had the privilege of introducing a lady to the free lectures , the members themselves were admitted ( at half price ) to lectures where a charge was made . |
| 15 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
| 16 | ‘ One way or another the thing had to die . |
| 17 | Lyndon Johnson 's searing complaints against the British have been much quoted , yet for the first year or two the president was not insensitive to the political realities in London . |
| 18 | Despite the poor conditions in many towns , Margaret Loane , a health visitor , felt that the family of the pre-World War I urban labourer , earning 20/ a week and renting a small house or half a house , was better off than that of his rural counterpart , earning 13/ a week and living in a free , but often damp and usually overcrowded cottage . |