Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun sg] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 2 | It was a zip-up pocket intended for golf balls and perhaps a pipe or a pair of gloves . |
| 3 | At least you would have to be a doctor to say so , and not a politician or an academic . ) |
| 4 | This was almost a conversation , and not a fuck or a shit in it . |
| 5 | When the railway and the two roads were blocked with drifts , and not a train or a letter or a newspaper came to the town for a week . |
| 6 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 7 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 8 | And maybe a relative or a near relative would do the same . |
| 9 | and the money , and then a diploma or a membership card to go up . |
| 10 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 11 | This occurs between a firm and either a supplier or an outlet . |
| 12 | If , within 5 minutes of a want demand being refused , Joanne had not started screaming ( or any other tantrum behaviour ) , she was rewarded with praise and either a toy or a sweet from a reward ‘ menu ’ kept for that purpose . |
| 13 | This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse . |
| 14 | There is one exception to this rule of not searching the unregistered Land Charges Register in the case of registered land : prospective mortgagors who are buying a registered property have , as yet ( until they complete their purchase ) , no title to the registered land ; and therefore a bankruptcy or a receiving order made against them would not be disclosed by a title search . |
| 15 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |