Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst byelaws therefore go some way to control fish trying odours from existing fish and chip shops , the primary most effective control still lies with planners to ensure that new premises , or those where a change of use to a fish and chip shop is contemplated , are sited where they will cause the least irritation to local residents , perhaps siting them together with other shops . |
| 2 | Complex cases , or those where the sum at stake is above a specified limit , have been the sole province of the High Court . |
| 3 | He then explained that ‘ … what we are pronouncing are not the three names of God ( or worse still the names of three gods , as some would suggest ) but we are pronouncing three aspects or qualities of the Deity which are well-known and used , in Christianity and other religions , namely His Eternal Existence , His Transcendence and His Omnipotence . ’ |
| 4 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |
| 5 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 6 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 7 | The latter decision does not effect any alteration to the English law of negligence as it was in 1976 , or 1967 when the cause of action in that case and this arose . |