Example sentences of "[vb base] the [det] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour in the shops which sell the same or similar goods ( eg colour all food shops green , all restaurants and take-aways red , etc ) . |
| 2 | Coping strategies are unthinkingly deployed which tend at the least to be ineffective , and which often produce unintended , unwanted side-effects that breach the same or other injunctions . |
| 3 | The essence of diffusionism is that where you find the same or similar techniques you propose the existence of some form of cultural connection or ‘ borrowing ’ , especially when , in the case of material objects , the similarities do not stem automatically from the raw materials used , and where they are reinforced by large numbers of parallel instances . |
| 4 | The current system has been developed for English , but the methods would be applicable to other languages which use the same or similar alphabets . |
| 5 | Each nucleus of an egg or sperm cell has a unique genetic constitution , but the nuclei of the many millions of body cells of an individual all have the same or similar genetic constitution . |