Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office . |
| 2 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 3 | ‘ Persons in my position customarily wed , not according to their own choosing — but in accordance with the wishes or indeed the ambitions of their elders . |
| 4 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 5 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 6 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 7 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 8 | A wide choice of expertly planned Latin American tours with guaranteed departures allow the traveller to explore either in small groups or independently the mysteries of this largely unexplored continent . |
| 9 | The most commonly affected joints are the stifles , knees , fetlocks or hocks , and more rarely , the shoulders or even the joints between the spinal column anywhere in the back . |
| 10 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 11 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 12 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 13 | And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so . |
| 14 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
| 15 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 16 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 17 | And did you find that the text book they had to use , changed through the years or just the |
| 18 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 19 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 20 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 21 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 22 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 23 | Over the last twenty years or so the regulating authorities of several States have recognised that there can be significant value in recording , and preferably investigating , the cause of near accidents . |
| 24 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |
| 25 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 26 | The parties do not share a conception of the good by reference to which the fruition of their powers or even the satisfaction of their desires can be evaluated . |
| 27 | If desired the agreement could contain separate provisions regarding partners attending continuing education courses in accordance with Law Society training regulations or even the taking of sabbaticals , but perhaps these matters are best left to ad hoc arrangements with individual partners . |
| 28 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |
| 29 | The use of multi disciplinary teams or alternatively the degree of specialisation of sections within the Exchequer Division . |
| 30 | Paradoxically the miriad-mind is the ‘ I ’ mind , the mind which does not simply observe , but enters into the essence of other substances or beings , be they people , animals , things or even the ghosts and spirits , angels and demons , which Reason itself has not yet driven out of the world we experience in waking and sleeping , in loving and in hating . |