Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
2 | Remember , though , that if a subject assessor refuses to certificate a module , then none of the candidates in that centre will be credited with that module until the problems are sorted out , usually by another visit by a subject assessor or perhaps by a Field Officer . ’ |
3 | She had settled on the bottom with her bows more or less on a north-south line . |
4 | So it could be used as a preliminary check for patients , more or less on a routine basis ? |
5 | At only $1 billion or so for a 50% stake , the price strikes some industry observers as a steal . |
6 | The mast combines a tapered fishing rod at the top with an aluminium tube that costs a fiver or so from a metals stockist . |
7 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
8 | If , as appears likely , it only applies to the latter case , can it be invoked by any Member State or only by a Member State which voted against the legislation ? |
9 | 12 ) he will in making his claim have to bring into account any money already received — whether as a deposit or merely as a part payment . |
10 | Examples to show the difference from unnecessary obstruction include leaving a vehicle around a blind bend , or just over a humped-back bridge etc . |
11 | There are now available drugs which , injected prior to or just after a learning trial , improve retention of the memory ( that is , increase the ‘ savings ’ as defined in Chapter 5 ) in animals tested hours or days subsequently . |
12 | A further 13 fields are under development or close to a development decision . |
13 | Meanwhile 21 industrialized countries , gathered under the auspices of IEA , had elaborated an oil-sharing arrangement to be invoked in the event of any disruption which caused a shortfall of 7 per cent or more in a member country 's normal supply arrangements . |
14 | This compares with 18 litres a minute or more from a storage system . |
15 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
16 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
17 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
18 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
19 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
20 | Publishers are often willing to grant permission for the reproduction of music upon written application , or even by a telephone call , supported by a subsequent letter . |
21 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
22 | The likelihood of finding it on a University reading list , or even in a University library , would be slight , though the books of Roberts 's lifelong friend George Gissing do have a place in the approved literary canon . |
23 | Our Equity Release service allows you to borrow up to 80% of the value of your home , less any outstanding mortgage or other loan secured on it , either as a lump sum or simply as a credit facility to be used as and when you like . |
24 | If the pews are an essential part of the design , this will probably limit the choice of uses — maybe as a concert hall , conference and lecture hall , or simply as a show place . |
25 | A third method is for the binder to stamp his name ( usually in minute letters ) on the inside edge of a front or back cover , or sometimes on a fly leaf . |
26 | The aim of this study was to analyse an unselected series of coeliac disease patients presenting in their seventh decade or beyond to a District General Hospital . |