Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | A little used dining room or even a corridor or hall ? |
| 3 | For example , there are some very attractive red lacquered frames which could be very useful , you could choose a dark mahogany frame with a reddish tinge , or even a gold or wood frame if it sets off a dark red mount or background . |
| 4 | Others prefer a solid object , such as a filter tube , tank wall , or even a rock or flower pot . |
| 5 | If you think you may be suffering from anorexia , bulimia , compulsive eating or an exercise obsession , you could also try your local doctor , or even a teacher or lecturer at college , and see if s/he could put you in touch with a counsellor or support group in your area . |
| 6 | However , our conception of word-meaning has the advantage of being intuitively plausible : its scope coincides well with the pre-theoretical notion of word-meaning that anyone with a practical interest in meaning — a lexicographer , translator , or language teacher , or even a novelist or poet — is likely to have . |
| 7 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 8 | When these two holes are lined up just push a panel pin or maybe a nail or matchstick or something else suitable into the two holes . |
| 9 | If not , is there anyone out there that has any parts like needles , ‘ pulled yard ’ , auxiliary rail and plate weights ( for use with the lace carriage ) , pattern cards or books , or maybe a shop or engineer that has one tucked away ? |
| 10 | For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions . |
| 11 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 12 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 13 | The economics of all such awards are sound : give away a substantial sum of prize money ( preferably the biggest that most seductive word ) , spend a little more on promotion , and , most essential , appoint as judges a judicious mixture of ancient worthies , the current great and good , a television personality or some such , and perhaps a critic or museum man to add some small semblance of probity to the proceedings . |
| 14 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 15 | There was not a breath of wind blowing , and not a leaf or blade of grass stirred . |
| 16 | You 've got a good chance of seeing the rarer migrant butterflies here , as well as buzzards , kestrels , and even a hobby or peregrine falcon . |
| 17 | Oh they came up with their servants all servants up from the south by train to Inverness and then a charabanc or vehicle of such that was in it then because it was only metal roads we had then . |
| 18 | Here and there a Marco or Giuseppe . |
| 19 | What is here referred to as " the same " is not an item , or items , capable of existing per se , but rather a mode or species of thought ; and a species of thought is necessarily " reconstitutable " in different thought acts , or else it is not a species . |
| 20 | This will provide that any university postholder ( but normally a professor or reader ) will be eligible to hold the headship for periods of up to five years and some professors and readers will be required to serve as head if asked by Council . |
| 21 | But once a cream or lotion has been opened and there 's air in the container , it 'll start to lose it 's effect after about six months . |
| 22 | The coherence is therefore not only a coherence over time but also a consistency or cohesion in action . |
| 23 | But sometimes a naturalist or collector overseas would find and perhaps train local artists to depict what he collected . |
| 24 | And though not a leaf or outline moved , there seemed more air , and a fresh little welcome breath from time to time near one 's skin . |
| 25 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 26 | That would seem to imply little reliability as either a mirror or informer of public opinion . |
| 27 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 28 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |