Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] or " in BNC.

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1 He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration .
2 The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take .
3 Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take .
4 Around the frames were hung walls of lath and plaster , with the upper storeys occasionally protected by hung tiles , and the roofs covered in the same materials or , in some cases , with Horsham Slate .
5 Roughly , linguistic communication consists in the production of some external , publicly observable , acoustic phenomenon whose phonetic and syntactic structure encodes a speaker 's inner , private thoughts or ideas and the decoding of the phonetic and syntactic structure exhibited in such a physical phenomenon by other speakers in the form of an inner private experience of the same thoughts or ideas .
6 My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers .
7 There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study .
8 If Monet always ‘ made something new ’ , why did he repeat the same effects or subjects so many times ?
9 Nor is there any implied claim that all individual speakers have the same rules or rule-order — far from it .
10 A convention exists when people follow certain rules or maxims for reasons that essentially include their expectation that others will follow the same rules or maxims , and they will follow rules for that reason when they believe that on balance having some settled rule is more important than having any particular rule .
11 Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work .
12 Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work .
13 Not all people had exactly the same experiences or the same viewpoint .
14 buying the same goods or services at a lower price ( pencils , computers , repairs , off-peak electricity ) ;
15 This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " .
16 6.4 Non-competition It may not be in the best interests of the landlord or the tenant for there to be several units within a shopping centre being entitled to sell the same goods or services .
17 In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more .
18 Later causes of decline are clearly different , and do not relate to the same age-groups or causes of death , and there are better data to argue over .
19 Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death .
20 Those who return for the same symptoms or are referred may require more attention .
21 I find that some of the ‘ B ’ band kids are doing the same syllabus , and in some cases they get the same marks or better marks than us , yet they ca n't do ‘ O ’ level and they 're in the ‘ B ’ band .
22 The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction .
23 You might see brightly coloured clothes or long hair but at least you do n't see the same shoes , the same jeans or the same jackets by the same designer .
24 For example , the dismissal of temporary workers did not require the same consultations or negotiations to be opened with the trade unions as would be necessary if redundancies amongst the regular labour force were proposed .
25 The treatment of the sky and of the areas between the various landscape objects , the boats , lighthouses and breakwaters , in terms of the same facets or pictorial units into which the objects themselves are dissolved , has the effect of making space seem as real , as material , one might almost say as ‘ pictorial ’ as the solid objects themselves .
26 Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints .
27 What , do , do they charge the same rates or hallo , could you give me the , the number for the Old Wine Shop erm
28 Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry .
29 It is surprising how often the same words or sentences are used in similar types of document .
30 These two kinds of deictic usage contrast with the non-deictic usage of the same words or morphemes .
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