Example sentences of "for [noun] or a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is present in standard experimental animals such as rats and rabbits which psychology and neurophysiology laboratories were familiar with , and did not require more exotic facilities like seawater tanks for Aplysia or a knowledge of a novel neuroanatomy like the chick ; and the techniques for investigation , such as recording electrodes and drugs , were all to hand . |
| 2 | The ‘ lunatics ’ , in contrast to those who proclaimed their rationality , offered no justifications beyond a dislike for non-whites or a liking for violence . |
| 3 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 4 | Was it a time for tears or a time for laughter , a time for war or a time for peace ? |
| 5 | Reasonable women , of course , do not believe that sexual intercourse is a cure for fits or a treatment for breathing which will improve the voice . |
| 6 | Ego-based relationships , whether with friends or partners , tend to be characterised by a need for security or a search for self-esteem . |
| 7 | Sometimes one or two of Oualie 's inhabitants , on a raid for weapons or a mission of sabotage , slipped into the settlement in the dark and remembered Sycorax . |
| 8 | There are some large four and five bedded rooms available for families or a group of friends . |
| 9 | Is it primarily a handbook for managers or a review of developments in services for people with learning difficulties ? |
| 10 | All are said to have been renewed without seeking a competition for tenders or a dispensation from the EC required under EC Supplies Directive 77/62 . |
| 11 | To speak of a search for God or a relationship with God would perhaps be putting it too strongly . |
| 12 | • When you feel tired in the evening , do not go to bed yet — find something interesting to do : an evening stroll , for example or a visit to friends . |
| 13 | Was it a time for tears or a time for laughter , a time for war or a time for peace ? |
| 14 | Is Price 's ripe for rationalisation or a candidate for closure ? |
| 15 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |
| 16 | But Saunders argues that it is wrong for feminists to draw from this the idea that home is a place of relaxation for men or a setting for the systematic exploitation of women . |
| 17 | There was nothing incongruous about the fact that the headmistress , Zoe Neill , was incapable of uttering a sentence which did not contain a word for excrement or a word for copulation . |
| 18 | Return flight back to U.K. or optional extra day in Stockholm , for sightseeing or a visit to a local woodworking group . |
| 19 | The variability of the disorder , however , will inevitably mean that a proportion of such healthy people will prove to have the mutation , with uncertainty as to their prognosis and need for treatment or a change in their lifestyle as well as possible adverse consequences with regard to insurance and employment . |
| 20 | In all other cases — as , for instance , a sale of goods or a contract for services or a loan of money — the contract was voidable in the sense that the infant would not , on attaining full age , become liable unless he took steps to ratify it . |
| 21 | It 's the children crying to be fed , and having to get up in the morning and pawn whatever you 've got left to buy four rolls for breakfast or a kilo of sugar . |
| 22 | As to other evidence , despite the fact that other countries and other scientists believe a more detailed approach is needed , the Commission persisted in using survey data to look for proof or a lack of proof that pollution was the cause of leaf-loss and canopy thinning . |
| 23 | Controlled by a single gene , the deficiency is usually harmless , but certain drugs for malaria or a type of bean can cause those without the proper gene to suffer acute anaemia , and it is thought that some chemical might do the same . |