Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only LM50 can be imported to the islands , but hotels and banks change sterling notes or travellers ' cheques . |
| 2 | And the pressure remained at the top : no access to the old boys ' clubs or men 's rooms for deal-making , and the constant reminder that ‘ if a man fails it 's because he 's inadequate , but if a female does it 's because of her sex . ’ |
| 3 | He is a partner in a service business or professional partnership : estate agencies , solicitors , surveyors or accountants ' practices . |
| 4 | That rules deduction rules of whatever kind er derivation rules or rules er applied to sentences in logic on the basis of the structure brackets what kind of connectives you have and so on . |
| 5 | Why not legs or breasts or |
| 6 | Their great value was that Gothic structures ‘ are seldom mistaken for Mechanics ' Institutes , Post Offices or Banks ' . |
| 7 | Erm not always , but I think a lot of pictures or photographs erm suffer because people have got too much in them . |
| 8 | The most controversial section of the 1988 Housing Act allows for the transfer of council and new town property to either private landlords , housing associations or tenants ' co-operatives . |
| 9 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 10 | Details of such groups can be found in libraries or Citizens ' Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | It may also be asked whether national political and economic policies are always debated and discussed with the seriousness they should be in curriculum committees or teachers ' colleges . |
| 12 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |
| 13 | This explains the joy with which single-sex or girls-only discussion groups plus non-sexist materials are met by girls ( Deem 1984 ) , because issues of direct relevance and impact can be raised and addressed without being filtered through male perceptions or boys ' scorn . |
| 14 | that correct what sort of time scale was it ? , er , a , a block of er flats or apartments er that are going to be built on the site er , when were the estimates made ? , or when were they made in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 15 | The former provides the criteria for determining when a treaty creates rights or obligations vis a vis third States , while the latter has comparable provisions with respect to third party organisations . |
| 16 | Sometimes the answer to the question is " Yes , but only for a handful of specialist writers or magazines ' . |
| 17 | Many labour markets are now characterized by countervailing market power ; there is bilateral bargaining between unions and large firms or employers ' organizations . |
| 18 | The family situation will have specific marketing implications , as in the purchase of housing , washing machines or children 's clothes . |
| 19 | All the odd jobs they 've sent to me and my stock-in-trade was special-purpose items or customers ' requirements . |
| 20 | Other provisions ‘ abolished the prohibition on hearsay evidence and rendered admissible as evidence ‘ confession ’ statements which , although involuntary , had not actually been obtained by torture , inhuman or degrading treatment , threats or inducements ' ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | Genetic engineering allows scientists to directly analyse genes or genemarkers ' ( pieces of genetic material DNA , close to the gene of interest ) . |
| 22 | The majority of these items related to solicitors ' charges , other professional advisers ' charges or receivers ' remuneration . |
| 23 | Clearly , there is very great diversity , ranging from sporadic protests , riots and rebellions or coups d'état , to the more continuous activities of organized political parties , but most of these phenomena can , I think , be subsumed under two broad categories which I shall refer to as ‘ social movements ’ and ‘ organized political formations ’ . |
| 24 | Similarly , in order to construct a notion of ‘ genre ’ , it is necessary to generalise across experience and determine what it is that is common to fairy stories , chats , news broadcasts , epic poems , debates or salesmen 's routines which enables us to recognise one as being a token of the generalised type . |
| 25 | Yeah Oh yeah I mean there 's five five things five things in men or women 's conversation t to do and essay about . |
| 26 | Differences in results over time may be due to errors which must be attached to judgements of mastery , whether test results or teachers ' judgements or both are used in making the judgement . |
| 27 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 28 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 29 | Before the 1939–45 War was over , many soldiers and marines wore the commando shoulder flashes or rangers ' badges but the green beret was not introduced until late in 1942 . |
| 30 | I see my own skyline , but I am convinced that when my children or children 's children get there there will be another skyline , another horizon , another dawning , another glorious beckoning from heaven itself . |