Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were the first to greet me , their brown eyes looking up , asking silently and then audibly for presents , knowing that my cases must hold something for each of them , if only a ribbon or a sweet . |
| 2 | Mortals see only a river or a hill , but somewhere on another plane , these natural objects are fierce , lusty or romantic men and women . |
| 3 | Only a peacock or a P.T. instructor could have walked round a camp in the way he admired . |
| 4 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 5 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 6 | As children grow up , and the pedal bike becomes the motorbike , they have areas to test their skills , where tumbles cause only a bruise or a tear . |
| 7 | In a survey of 1575 between 40 and 50 per cent of the Willingham villagers held only a house or a house with a couple of acres of land . |
| 8 | Now the other thing about an integral really when it boils down to it it 's only a number or a function or a sine or a cos it comes down to you these are just numbers you 're playing with erm |
| 9 | Thomas Knowlton ( 1691–1781 ) , a gardener employed first by William Sherard and then by the Earl of Burlington , wrote to Samuel Brewer in 1741 , ‘ as to Miller he does not look at poor men , only a lord or a duke is company for him ’ . |
| 10 | He was taught unarmed combat by a former plumber , and was later told that the famous novelist Gerald Kersh gave lessons in how to kill a man in total silence using only a handkerchief or a bunch of keys . |
| 11 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 12 | The mechanics of map drawing are no longer a constraint or a deterrent to the use of maps for the user can , given a suitable package such as GIMMS , modify and refine his or her map or generate a number of maps without difficulty . |
| 13 | Is it normally a solid or a liquid or what ? |
| 14 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 15 | She wanted someone to talk to , not just a squirrel or a dog snuffling at her feet . |
| 16 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 17 | Well it 's always going to be hard because we 're , you know , near the bottom and that and it 's very tight , you know just a win or a loss like , it puts you either three places up or right near the bottom . |
| 18 | It seems to me that it lacks somehow a soul or a purpose . |
| 19 | It 's questionable in 2001 whether David Bowman 's ( Keir Dullea ) classical rooms are finally a mansion or a prison , heaven or hell . |
| 20 | Of the estimated 6 million informal carers in Great Britain ( 3.5 million women and 2.5 million men ) , just over three quarters are looking after someone aged 65 and over , usually a spouse or a parent . |
| 21 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 22 | It is hard to imagine you getting through the day without upsetting someone close to you , possibly a lover or a relative . |
| 23 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 24 | Erm how often do you play , oh once a week or a couple of times a week , what sort of standard is it and what it 's doing is you 've got an opportunity to sound off about yourself and that 's who we are talking about is n't it ? |
| 25 | Like a mum or a dad or |
| 26 | Like a landing or a loft or whatever . |
| 27 | Redpath had been called in because the body on the mud had been reported by P.C. Clifford from a land-based patrol car , but whether it was properly a land or a river matter was a moot point . |
| 28 | Mr X will argue that he has not received and nor is he entitled to receive any capital sum , namely a loan or a repayment of a loan . |
| 29 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's probably a sink or a lavatory somewhere , but I would n't know where to start looking . ’ |