Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The purchase price will be paid in either cash and three-year promissory notes or all cash , but it expects to pay a significant portion with the three-year notes . |
2 | There is evidence from America that costing by ‘ Diagnosis Related Group ’ may provide a disincentive to offering support and aftercare to elderly people , as average figures for ‘ cost per case ’ may not take into account the higher costs incurred by some elderly people who need longer recovery times or more aftercare . |
3 | To be organic to somebody else 's idea is an experience not to be sneezed at , in these divided times or any other . |
4 | If it is known that there will be no other worker present , staff must go accompanied to mental health assessments ; the removal of children , child abuse investigations or any situation where there is a likelihood of violence . |
5 | Oak woodland is well known to be particularly rich in many species of bugs , thrips , aphids , beetles , gall wasps , leaf miners and moth caterpillars , all chomping away at leaves , twigs , buds or each other . |
6 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
7 | Increasing workload within the same length of working day : this would again produce poorer responses for lexicographers but in addition batch processes would be requested more frequently and this would require either that they run during normal working hours or that Computer Services staff would need to work more unsocial hours . |
8 | Although there is apparently little difference in the proportions of male and female carers who are providing twenty hours or more help and support each week , clear gender differences do emerge as care-giving becomes more intensive . |
9 | A chemical system may consist of atoms , molecules and ions or any combination of these . |
10 | If so , and since any rise in factor prices above alternative use values or any rise in price above marginal cost causes a potential deadweight loss , the most obvious solution is for a price fixed at the level of marginal cost . |
11 | ‘ I should n't think so ; if he did — hospital clinics or that sort of thing — he would have said , would n't he ? ’ |
12 | Well that 's that 's that 's groom what they call the groom , then he had another job he did in the Winter , he out in the council with the roads or any kind of job like that . |
13 | The black movement in the US was also divided , not only about its relationship with white radicalism , and about the use of violence , but also more fundamentally about whether its ultimate objective should be full assimilation into American society on equal terms with other ethnic groups or some form of separation and independence ( Cruse , 1967 ) . |
14 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
15 | If there is a danger that we have fallen into the trap of vocationalising education let me emphasise that we must actively encourage the development of intellectual curiosity and imagination by exploration in fields , however theoretically abstract — in science , maths , humanities , the arts or any sphere that captures students ' interests ; education has suffered as much from failure to excite interest in the world of ideas as failure to prepare for practicalities of daily living . |
16 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
17 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
18 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
19 | Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics . |
20 | Do you remember the introduction of , sort of computers or any sort of mechanized typewriters ? |
21 | It has been said that nobody with eyes in their heads or any appetite for the oddities and splendours of the human achievement or the natural scene can possibly be bored in Edinburgh . |
22 | You 've also got er other books or another book at home which you can refer to if you need any extra . |
23 | It actually gives you a framework on which to base any any few words or any talk that you you have to give . |
24 | I 've thought about that and I think it 's a bad policy for any museum to be known to be selling pictures or any work of art . |
25 | they 're not angels , they 're a hard regiment , but they 're also highly disciplined and highly trained , I 've got , I , I , the other thing I could n't see what good , I mean is it , is it the , I mean its not , its not the anniversaries or any thing so I do n't know why they brought the out , cos I ca n't see what interviewing people twenty years after the thing happen can do . |
26 | ProTeam applications run on any X-Windows clients or any server capable of hosting Sybase including Hewlett-Packard Co 's , IBM 's , Sun Microsystems Inc 's and MIPS Technology Systems Inc 's machines . |
27 | ‘ He rang up from some baths or some place like that , said he 'd be back soon . |
28 | For a few women — particularly those who have rather heavy periods or any history of pelvic infection — IUDs are not satisfactory . |
29 | The family may determine the time of marriage , and the husband , his parents or the wife 's parents or another person may make decisions that dictate the number and spacing of births . |
30 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |