Example sentences of "or [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind the Dodge right out to the 6500rpm red line — there 's a cut-out at 6700rpm — and the engine stays on boost , the widely spaced gear ratios are disguised and acceleration is impressive enough , without ever feeling as energetic or gutsy as the Vauxhall 's . |
| 2 | Thirty-eight per-cent believed more nuclear power plants should be built , either right now or subject to the government 's proposed review in 1994 . |
| 3 | In particular , this means that the placement with a parent , relative , friend or person connected with the child should be considered as a first option unless this would not be reasonably practicable or consistent with the child 's welfare ( s23(6) ) . |
| 4 | Neither then nor later was Buckingham made a councillor or involved in the council 's activity . |
| 5 | Neither then nor later was Buckingham made a councillor or involved in the council 's activity . |
| 6 | They always had to be constrained in public , Sundays or not ; and if anything they were less so on Sunday , when sometimes their clothes were pretty , and at least were seldom black , navy blue or grey as the men 's were invariably … . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 8 | The effect of this is that equity shares , or rights to them , can be allotted as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights . |
| 9 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |
| 10 | What 's excessive or disgusting to a vicar 's wife may be the height of pleasure to a pop star 's . |
| 11 | In 1980 , the first full year of the new civilian constitution in Nigeria , newspapers supporting one or other of the country 's five political parties began reporting allegations against their rivals . |
| 12 | Any patient who recurs after the three month check cystoscopy is reassessed going back to the beginning and they may be reassigned to one of the the o o one or other of the groups erm depending on that . |
| 13 | Many large rocks you 'll come across will be the remnants of one or other of the giants ' squabbles . |
| 14 | The D-ring within the collar automatically pulls into position on one or other of the ferret 's shoulders . |
| 15 | The father of these children are one or other of the mother 's first two husbands , the first of whom ( from whom she was divorced in 1976 ) has played no part in their lives at least since 1980 , and the second of whom committed suicide in 1984 . |
| 16 | Until 1915 , there had always existed the possibility of making a short or wide turning movement of one or other of an enemy 's flanks ; that option no longer existed . |
| 17 | We would require by law that the pension left behind by the early leaver should be either revalued each year or transferable to the leaver 's new scheme . |
| 18 | Under the Children Act of 1948 the local authorities were given a duty to place a child in foster care unless this was not practicable or desirable in the child 's best interests . |
| 19 | The fact that he is paid by S1 is irrelevant because of the application of Sch 6 para 10(2) , which states that emoluments include all relevant sums paid by or receivable from the company 's subsidiary undertakings and any other person . |