Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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1 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
2 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
3 | Today , however , we do not really have a politics of opinion or of action — nothing is proposed that either stirs the blood or excites the mind . |
4 | ( PIRATES is a unit on coordinates that never plots a point or shows a grid or axes . |
5 | A dense mat of long , brownish or light bluish , fibrous roots grows below the leaf-rosettes and even reaches the soil or mud and anchors the plant . |
6 | He sits up the stairs and either plays the computer or draws these men or plays with these wee men all over the place , so |
7 | This functions as an adjective and therefore qualifies a noun or a pronoun in another clause . |
8 | He writes in Anglo-Norman , but sometimes quotes a proverb or a pithy saying in English , and sometimes uses an English word ( like wapentak ) . |