Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you give me an example of how you went about making a a bread scone or a roll or what had to be done ? |
| 2 | If there is no room to add any extra counter space try importing a free-standing butcher-block worktop or a trolley or cart . |
| 3 | Handle or a knob or whatever you call it with all the proper kind of things on it |
| 4 | If the liberal humanist wishes to criticize a Christian or a Buddhist or a Marxist , that is his right . |
| 5 | At least seventy five percent you can work out well what have we got we got an acid or a base or a carbonate or what , and does it fit any of the I mean there are n't many patterns , there 's metal acid , what does that give ? |
| 6 | The Act does not give a constable power to search a person or a vehicle or anything in or on a vehicle unless he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find stolen or prohibited articles . |
| 7 | who is a blasphemer or a lesbian or whose filth is being studied |
| 8 | " Or a teapot or even your ties , |
| 9 | Want to get a comedy or a thriller or a drama . |
| 10 | That 's saying that being a biker or a greaser or a punk is dirty — that 's a real stereotype old people believe about young people . |
| 11 | The way to get the best out of something — whether faith or a donkey or anything else — is to find out what it is and treat it accordingly . |
| 12 | talking about somebody being a man or a boy or something okay . |
| 13 | Is it normally a solid or a liquid or what ? |
| 14 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 15 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 16 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 17 | There is a story of Singer 's — one of a collection , The Death of Methuselah , published in Britain in the autumn of 1988 — in which Levi , or a part or perception of Levi , is perhaps faintly distinguishable . |
| 18 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 19 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 20 | I ai n't a bl builder or a carpenter or a chippy or a tiler but as I say I I I plan it out , always plan it out how I 'm going to do it . |
| 21 | ‘ I never , ever had any desire to run a hotel or a bar or a restaurant . |
| 22 | In most contexts , however , the natural ‘ effort after meaning ’ will impel the hearer / reader to try to co-interpret chunks of language which he finds close to each other on a page , or a stone or a wall and , where possible , to interpret the language as relevant to the physical context . |
| 23 | It is to require banks to hold capital specifically against market risk — broadly , the chance that the price of a share or a bond or a currency , for example , will fall , and expose the bank that holds it to loss . |
| 24 | there is an argument , ha and it 's been put by er a a noted writed who 's recently written on the menopause that , work , and you should just make the most of being a crone or a hag or an old women ! |
| 25 | I run up the hill , seeing movement ahead and assuming it 's a bird or a rabbit or something , and almost run straight into a man . |
| 26 | As I pointed out there , it seems to be impossible to give a full description of a linguistic variety ( whether it is ‘ standard ’ English , or a dialect , or a style or register ) without making decisions about what the ‘ norms ’ of the variety are , that is , without making decisions about what the speakers agree on as structures that are appropriate for that variety . |
| 27 | And no sign of chains or a whip or iron bars . |
| 28 | You may choose to go into a more expensive home , providing it meets your assessed needs and you and your family or friends ( or a charity or trust ) can meet the difference between the fee provided by the Department and the cost of the home . |
| 29 | The resulting snowflake may look like Cleopatra 's needle or a fern or a chunky hexagon , but it will be different from every other snowflake around . |
| 30 | Or a tap or a till or a thought or a thrill , |