Example sentences of "[n mass] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum benefit will be 80% or the charge . |
| 2 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 3 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 4 | The money from the sale of the products is put into a trust fund , so that when the youngsters leave at the age of sixteen to make their own way in the world they have the means to purchase a flock of sheep or a horse and cart , giving them a vital start in whatever activity they take up . |
| 5 | We no longer hang a man because , in despair for his family , he steals a sheep or a loaf of bread . |
| 6 | If the Jämtland pack kills a sheep or a dog , as normal wolves may do , will they too be bustled into captivity because no one in authority has the courage or commitment to withstand ill-informed local pressure ? |
| 7 | Like an animal 's , if you like , a sheep or a goat 's cloven hooves . |
| 8 | In words , the EQ of a given species such as a rhino or a cat , is a measure of how much bigger ( or smaller ) the animal 's brain is than we should expect it to be , given the animal 's body size . |
| 9 | In a communications system , the source of infra-red radiation may be an infra-red l.e.d. or a laser . |
| 10 | Perfectly placed for the man from the city whose idea of a good time was to get a Roe or a Red in his telescopic sights and blast it with a soft-nosed slug . |
| 11 | Engels , whose observations were based on life in urban Lancashire , was obliged to make an exception in favour of the Irish immigrants , who in 1841 already constituted 10% or the population of Manchester . |
| 12 | The minimum investment is $5,000 or the currency equivalent . |
| 13 | And since most visitors have time only for one visit to Milford , you again will probably have to be make this trip as a passenger , either in an aircraft or a coach . |
| 14 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 15 | Not all were conducted by aircraft or the use of mines . |
| 16 | Sammy slept under the navigator 's table and never seemed to have any reaction to the gyration of the aircraft or the attention of the natives with their flak and fighters outside . |
| 17 | Alright , well let's suppose it 's some something small like a vole or a squirrel . |
| 18 | A little owl called " Kee-wik , kee-wik " and something — a vole or a shrew — gave a sudden squeal . |
| 19 | the amount of memory a computer needs to describe one character of text , data or a program . |
| 20 | Assessing the performance of this kind of institution can not be solely a matter of adding up figures on a balance sheet , whether they are the finance officer 's financial data or the registrar 's data on student performance . |
| 21 | There is , then , a difference between ‘ outsider ’ research ( whether observational or manipulative ) which is carried out by the external researcher with teachers as part of the data or the object of enquiry , and ‘ insider ’ research which is carried out by teachers themselves . |
| 22 | In this case , most systems look for the next available space when storing the data or the record is moved to an overflow area . |
| 23 | beauty products , if you want to spend fifty pence or a pound on something and , and you know from your high street chemist or your going to spend seventy pounds on the same sort of cream , that 's up to you if you , if it makes you feel good , go for it . |
| 24 | Political objectives and priorities are ostensibly defined elsewhere , not by the corps or the DGA . |
| 25 | With the melon salad serve a simple Italian white , such as Sainsbury 's Cortese Alto Monferrato , £3.49 or the light , refreshing and fruity Sainsbury 's Kabinett , £2.99 form the Rhine . |
| 26 | She lay there , sleek and curved as a fish or a gull , so close that he could hear the rise and fall of her breath faintly echoing the suspiration of the sea . |
| 27 | And from the waist down she was a fish or a serpent , Rabelais says an ‘ andouille ’ , a kind of huge sausage , the symbolism is obvious , and she beat the water with her muscular tail . |
| 28 | He was drunker now , a definite sway , but his stance too , and he seemed bigger , thicker , so that Anton was trapped , like baited , as netted as a fish or a bird . |
| 29 | It is simple enough with a small and imperishable article like a book or a fountain pen , but what of a parcel of fish or a piano which is delivered at my house in my absence ? |
| 30 | Indeed , to a cold-blooded animal , such as a fish or a crab , low temperatures have several advantages . |