Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal social care providing agencies are divided into various categories either by the type of agency involved , public or private or the location of care , institution or domiciliary . |
| 2 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 3 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 4 | This latter is a piece of independent evidence , which is distinct from the actions , such as masturbation or thumb-sucking or the hysterical symptoms of neurotics , which are to be explained by reference to the concept of sexual instincts . |
| 5 | There is no offer or tender or the like given or made by the Vendor in relation to the Business which is still outstanding and capable of giving rise to a contract merely by the unilateral act of a third party . |
| 6 | The trustee need not comply with any request for information where it appears to him that the request is frivolous or unreasonable or the cost of complying would be excessive or there are not sufficient assets to meet the cost of complying ( r 6.152(2) ) . |
| 7 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 8 | The first spread is used where small or no price movements are expected . |
| 9 | National Certificate Modules are delivered in schools , further education colleges and other approved centres throughout Scotland and because they are separate units in their own right , modules can be taken in a variety of ways to accommodate the circumstances of the individual — full-time , part-time , distance or open-learning or a combination of these . |
| 10 | If reference to Parliamentary material is permitted as an aid to the construction of legislation which is ambiguous , or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity , I believe as I have said that in practically every case it will be incumbent on those preparing the argument to examine the whole proceedings on the Bill in question in both Houses of Parliament . |
| 11 | In my judgment , subject to the questions of the privileges of the House of Commons , reference to Parliamentary material should be permitted as an aid to the construction of legislation which is ambiguous or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity . |
| 12 | In Pepper v. Hart , Lord Browne-Wilkinson stated that ‘ … reference to parliamentary material should be permitted as an aid to construction of legislation which is ambiguous or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity ’ and subsequently carefully established the ambiguity in the statutory provision in issue before relying on parliamentary material as an aid to its construction . |
| 13 | For example , erm , in the case of newborn , or young or a very young offspring , and a , maybe a mother has already put a tremendous investment into that offspring , as you 've already seen . |
| 14 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 15 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 16 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 17 | People buy in three different modes , visual and audible or a connective touchy , feel mode , if he wants to be touchy feeling you give it to him . |
| 18 | Coryza may be acrid and purulent or a bloody discharge . |
| 19 | The weaknesses of that scholarly approach are obvious — for example the lack of rationale for -ible and -able or the problems over deciding between -ease , -eese , -ese , -eze , -eeze , -ieze and -eize . |
| 20 | ‘ Certainly it should be gentle and simple or a place of cold , airy silence . ’ |
| 21 | Other costs are usually obtained as standard company percentages of those estimated so far , arriving at labour , materials and overhead or the LMO level . |
| 22 | Other costs are usually obtained as standard company percentages of those estimated so far , arriving at labour , materials and overhead or the LMO level . |
| 23 | There may be dry , teasing winter coughs ; dry , rough and hoarse or a loose cough with copious mucus worse ( < ) lying , in a warm room , better ( > ) in the open air . |
| 24 | Pausanias starts his account with the figure of Zeus , then speaks of others to left and right of him , but omits to say whether he means Zeus 's proper right and left or the spectator 's ; and there is no general agreement about the correct disposition of the figures . |
| 25 | When knitting the water-lily pattern as an all-over design , I actually like black as the background and white or a pastel colour for the contrast , using the paler colour for the welts and details , as illustrated . |
| 26 | None of these new and developing areas of study was without its problems , and the committees and boards had to be constantly confronting difficulties of either a general and continuing or a highly specific kind . |
| 27 | If you wash them away it will either become dry and troublesome or the body will try to replace them and become too greasy . |
| 28 | They go up the sides , top and bottom or the work where needed . |
| 29 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 30 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |