Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 2 | That view is presented in a classical French , rarely illustrated , and then only with the smallest photographs or the occasional line drawing . |
| 3 | Heat is radiated entirely from the ceramic coals or logs . |
| 4 | At first glance , you may not notice any obvious differences , but if you look more closely you may spot a slight increase in the graininess of the picture at the LP speed , especially in the darker areas or if you were shooting in poor light . |
| 5 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 6 | ‘ Just for a few days or so … something to ease the pain ? ’ |
| 7 | He , of course , assumed that the earth was the hub of the universe , and also that the cosmos was controlled by celestial beings , rather like the living beings or cherubim of Ezekiel . |
| 8 | If you 're suggesting that the Manchester Evening News are proactively against the Liberal Democrats or that they would obstruct erm us in getting a fair crack of the whip , you may well be true , but I think we 've got that obstacle overcome , perhaps , in every stage . |
| 9 | Always with strangers , mostly in their cars , always in the late mornings or early afternoons in some remote country spot or shady lane . |
| 10 | ‘ We are still within the amateur regulations or we would n't be here , ’ Grant Fox , the All Black outside-half , said yesterday . |
| 11 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 12 | Where the state does take initiatives , it should do so by involving private enterprise , e.g. with the inner cities or the Channel tunnel . |
| 13 | He preached mainly on the great truths or the essential doctrines of the Christian faith . |
| 14 | I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street . |
| 15 | Indeed many of the counter-cultural ideas had troublesome millenarian or semi-religious elements which owed little to the existing moralities or acceptable satisfactions . |
| 16 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 17 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 18 | This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence . |
| 19 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 20 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 21 | The ball is kicked or thrown to the highlighted player either after a few seconds or when the fire button is pressed with the joystick i neutral . |
| 22 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 23 | For instance , the theme of the third sentence , It , does not relate to either of the previous themes or rhemes . |
| 24 | An additional initiative available is to advertise the opportunity either in the Financial Times or on the Accountants Business Network ( ‘ ABN ’ ) . |
| 25 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 26 | ‘ I consider that ethically a human person is created when the sperm of a male fertilises the ovum of a woman , thus creating an embryo … either in the fallopian tubes or in vitro . |
| 27 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 28 | Sometime , changes in blood either in the white cells or in the blood proteins , i.e. antibodies , can not be detected in people who react adversely to foods . |
| 29 | By the close of the nineteenth century the major centre for the manufacture of shrouds had shifted from London to Lancashire , the supplier selling either to the wholesale warehouses or direct to the funeral furnisher . |
| 30 | But , in Britain as in much of Europe , soils change markedly over a few miles or tens of miles , so targets must be set to protect the most sensitive soils , such as those based on sand or overlying hard , naturally ‘ base-poor ’ rocks . |