Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that time some twenty thousand people would tramp round the marked routes or roost in one of the twenty grandstands . |
| 2 | Personal power and charisma Power may depend upon the personal skills or charisma of certain individuals who , because of their particular characteristics , induce others to follow them . |
| 3 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 4 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 5 | Later causes of decline are clearly different , and do not relate to the same age-groups or causes of death , and there are better data to argue over . |
| 6 | You may replant in the old containers or pot up in individual pots for replanting later . |
| 7 | There is also uncertainty about whether the economic benefits of industrial growth centres will spread to the surrounding areas or will be restricted to the centre . |
| 8 | Some of these big fish fetch big prices , two or three times as much as we would pay for them here , and they will go to the classy restaurants or the Marseille fish shops , but the boxes of little slithery bright pink fish called demoiselles and the miscellaneous collections of bony little rock fish , undersized whiting and other small fry , will go for very little . |
| 9 | She did n't go to the Social Services or anything like that , she acted completely beyond the jurisdiction of any teacher . |
| 10 | Save for the clandestine tracts or news-sheets of the Resistance or Underground , newspapers were rigorously controlled — by the German occupying forces in Paris and the north , and by Petain 's Vichy governments in the south . |
| 11 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 12 | I accept that , but the House would be well advised to suspend judgment on whether that authority should lie with the usual channels or , more generally , with the House . |