Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.

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1 Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ?
2 I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law .
3 An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more .
4 The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured .
5 He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily .
6 None of the fatal accidents or occupational diseases mentioned earlier were the result of any corporate officials intending to kill or mutilate hundreds of employees , customers , or civilians .
7 After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils .
8 There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range .
9 ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations .
10 Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today .
11 Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time
12 ( viii ) Remove the coverslips from their chambers and transfer them into PBS containing 0.1 % Tween-20 ( PBS — Tween ) before incubating them with the specific antibodies or other reagents .
13 The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so .
14 He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops .
15 They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile .
16 when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or
17 But facing up to conflicts and difficulties throughout marriage , be it in the early years or later , is the way of growth and strength .
18 On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " .
19 US and British citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " .
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