Example sentences of "or [verb] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A student having completed Music Making : Solo 1 may proceed to Solo 2 or remain at the same level , provided that the study employs different techniques : for example , voice and keyboard ; guitar and bass guitar ; violin and sitar . |
2 | Or got on the same bus . |
3 | In the normal form we are forced to accept only one of these representations ; we choose the left hand one by insisting that pairs of expressions unc output on the same channel or assigned to the same variable be ordered . |
4 | The reasons for demanding that expressions output on one channel , or assigned to the same variable , be uniformly ordered have already been explained . |
5 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
6 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
7 | The dressing table itself is basically a worktop : either a length of kitchen worktop or make from the same material as the rest of the system . |
8 | AIthough the number of workers in the transport industries may have declined , it does not follow that the number of transport workers in the wider economy has also fallen or fallen to the same extent . |
9 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
10 | Over the weekend of 21/22 September 1985 , for example , 60 protesters were arrested for wire-cutting at Molesworth and a further 55 were arrested or reported for the same action at RAF Sculthorpe . |
11 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
12 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
13 | Another idea that uses a mirror image is to make a pair of pictures , either in separate frames or housed in the same mount , in which the colours of the flowers and foliage are transposed . |
14 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
15 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
16 | For this reason , our one-year programme is designed to allow students to take the occupational SVQ at level II in either administration or finance at the same time as the general SVQ at level II in business administration . |
17 | lines of type that do not start or end at the same position . |
18 | A nation owing money to other nations … is impoverished or burdened in the same way as a man who owes money to other men . |
19 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
20 | When the criminal proceedings in the youth court end , and the same young person who has been held in secure accommodation or remand on the same day may be the subject of an application in the family proceedings court , with a guardian to represent them . |
21 | Possible definitions of co-ordinate are , to place or classify in the same order or rank ; to combine or integrate harmoniously . |
22 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
23 | The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent . |
24 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
25 | Overall , almost three-quarters of the participants either reduced their intake ( 61 per cent ) or remained at the same level ( 11 per cent ) between the first and the last three weeks of the course . |
26 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |