Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can now formulate a provisional test to determine whether a deviance is grammatical or semantic ( 'provisional' , because , as we shall see , things are not so simple ) : if the minimal change required to ‘ cure ’ an anomaly in a sentence involves one or more closed set items , then the deviance is grammatical ; if , however , the sentence can most easily be normalised by replacing one or more open set elements , then the deviance is semantic . |
| 2 | His top bit goes furry or |
| 3 | If I do n't spot the trouble straight away , the knitting goes tight or the yarn snaps and it causes no end of frustration when I have to stop to sort out the mess . |
| 4 | If the skin turns red or starts to irritate , do n't use the product . |
| 5 | Each apartment sleeps 2 or 3 people , and are highly recommended . |
| 6 | ‘ The difficult bit starts two or three days later . |
| 7 | This classic dispute does not exhaust the level-of-analysis problem , which recurs as one about whether the foreign policy behaviour of states has international or domestic determinants . |
| 8 | ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency … |
| 9 | ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency . |
| 10 | If he considers that the proposed change has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale , the Change Management Procedures can be bypassed and there is no need for any further action . |
| 11 | Ive come to learn there little/no point hoping to get a report of the match when a side wins 3 or 4 nil , because its immediately a one sided contest and all you hear is a one sided report . |
| 12 | This point is academic — first , because so much of this type of absenteeism goes unnoticed or unrecorded ( it was described as ‘ hidden ’ truancy by the Pack Report ) , and second , because , realistically , the use of legal procedures would probably not be contemplated by any LEA until the problem had worsened and discussion with parents had failed to resolve it . |
| 13 | Orimulsion emits three or four times as much sulphur as coal . |
| 14 | This brief ritual has little or no religious significance . |
| 15 | Finally , he claims that TransTools holds second or third position in the Spanish market behind Oracle and Informix , with the impact of Sybase Corp and Ingres Corp being relatively muted . |
| 16 | The North-East has four or five Thai restaurants now , including one in the Metrocentre run by a Thai lady from Easington Colliery and another in Pink Lane , Newcastle which helps fund a Buddhist monastery in Northumberland . |
| 17 | Now Standlake has more or less , through the Council , been designated as a leisure area . |
| 18 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 19 | ‘ A conventional round spoke — and the typical wheel has 24 or 36 — has a drag coefficient of 1.2 ’ , he says . |
| 20 | Indeed , each of these proteins contains one or more Ser-Gln motifs . |
| 21 | Competition of the specific complex formed on SSB by both the double stranded WT and complementary SSA in both cases is the result of the complementary strand binding to the SSB oligonucleotide forming a double stranded oligonucleotide for which the protein has little or no affinity . |
| 22 | Each valve has two or three ‘ pockets ’ ( leaflets ) which keep blood flowing in one direction only . |
| 23 | DOL needs 2 or 3 more reserve games |
| 24 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 25 | The club meets three or four times a year . |
| 26 | ‘ When a woman 's lover says little or nothing between the sheets , she will feel unloved , ’ says Barbara DeAngelis in her book How To Make Love All The Time . |
| 27 | Depending on the size of the party , the organizer chooses three or four children as each animal and they have to find their group . |
| 28 | Where Hegel sees national or supra-national civilisations as the instrument or the perfecting dialectic , Marx sees classes of society ; and where Hegel sees history as the account of the development of the abstract spirit of humanity — or , perhaps better , of the development of human consciousness — Marx relates his view to the mode of production which he sees as comprehending within itself all the factors affecting the formation and attributes of a society . |
| 29 | Polymetallic mineralisation related to intrusions includes mesothermal or epithermal veins and hydrothermal breccias in granodiorite and dacite porphyries . |
| 30 | If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break . |