Example sentences of "or the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a localized condition or the sign of a generalized bodily disorder ? |
| 2 | Sometimes sharp points develop on the edges of the teeth which will lacerate the tongue or the inside of the cheek . |
| 3 | Can I feel more pressure on the outside or the inside of my feet ? |
| 4 | Read the book it will tell you there 's probably an explanation on the cover or the inside of the cover pass me the coffee please . |
| 5 | Read the novels that were popular then , or the poetry or the plays . |
| 6 | But the theory is that if we , if we get to know what the , the purpose er o o of the job or , or the assignment is , er then we , we stand a slightly better chance of er getting a satisfied client at the end of the day . |
| 7 | Frequent long motorway journeys are a feature of the Kings ' life , and while the larger and more powerful 405 is favoured for these trips , the 305 is equally at home on the school run or the motorway . |
| 8 | Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft . |
| 9 | Future coal gasification will probably take place in a gasifier — the Lurgi or the Koppers-Totzek for example . |
| 10 | Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour . |
| 11 | A trust is what is left not in civil-law words but precatively , and is dependent not on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention or the settlor . |
| 12 | Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession . |
| 13 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 14 | Either can be got rid of by bleeding the radiator at the air vent ( page 154 ) , but if this needs doing frequently , find the cause of the air getting in or the corrosion and cure . |
| 15 | This seems to be inconsistent with the proposition that a higher standard applies where the director possesses relevant skills , but is presumably explicable on the basis that the higher standard relates only to distinct forms of professional expertise , such as that of the actuary or the physician referred to by Romer J , and not where the experience or expertise that the director has acquired is that of a business manager . |
| 16 | These classes were , by and large , closed ; access to the nobility or the peasantry was determined by birth , though occasionally peasants could escape from feudal bondage to the towns , and rich merchants were sometimes able to purchase titles and estates . |
| 17 | Resolving these issues without generating revolts on the part of the gentry or the peasantry required a balancing act which tested the regime to the limits . |
| 18 | Although lacking orthodox faith , I have my impossible-to-define It , which is an amalgam of childhood Biblical stories and the Nature I see all around me , best personified in the trumpet of a daffodil , the Dorset coast or the rings and mounds of Hambledon Hill in the same county . |
| 19 | Some actors find the character initially in the posture , the clothes , or the make-up , but Dustin almost invariably works from the voice , perhaps because his own is rather nasal , flat and nondescript . |
| 20 | Or the make-up bag if you want . |
| 21 | Other derivatives markets , such as the financial swaps market with its standard documentation , or the forex market , with its common computer equipment , may also appear to operate on a multilateral basis . |
| 22 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 23 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 24 | Not for Otaka the near-hysterical passion of Ashkenazy , the laid-back portamento style of Litton , the intoxicating flair of Ormandy , or the knife-edge brilliance of Maazel . |
| 25 | If you do n't see a RAM test or the BIOS setup screen switch off and check the connections — especially the power connections . |
| 26 | This is specifically for this kind of file , which is accessed by a machine without reference to either DOS or the BIOS . |
| 27 | The aristocratic grip on the most important diplomatic appointments was weaker in Great Britain , and probably in Russia , than in France , Spain or the Habsburg territories . |
| 28 | As one member of the profession has aptly observed : ‘ It is not too difficult — it does not wrench the mind too painfully — for the historian or the humanist to accept the notion of ‘ living his way ’ into the totality of a culture . |
| 29 | Hardly anyone in the packed congregations of about 1,500 people seemed to know either the hymns or the prayers . |
| 30 | Cleaning invariably begins and ends at the sink whether installations use domestic equipment or the 450 litre giants or the catering ‘ plonge ’ . |