Example sentences of "or [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 2 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 3 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 4 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 5 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 6 | In part two : Tactical weapons : The Tory seat that sinks or swims with the floating voter . |
| 7 | deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers . |
| 8 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 9 | A total of 158 taxa have been identified as pollen , spores , or macrofossils from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 10 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 11 | Someone , somewhere has to decide whether interest rates are political tools or cogs in the economic machine . |
| 12 | And from all these things the soft light proceeded , like the glimmering of pearls in the depth of water , like the phosphorescent light that moves of itself on the night surface of southern seas , or shines round the heaving shoals , milky-white over their silver darts , in our own dark Channel . |
| 13 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 14 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 15 | These gases diffuse down their concentration gradients , e.g. through stoma pores or lentices to the intercellular spaces of leaf mesophyll or stem cortex . |