Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tape-slide productions can be used for both group teaching , as for example , an illustration of a lecture or seminar , or for individual tuition , as in preparation for a course or for repetition . |
| 2 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 3 | Try to capture the architectural shape of the lecture Think of your notes as a skeleton or outline of the lecture you 'll give to your fellow students who are absent . |
| 4 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 5 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 6 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 7 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
| 8 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 9 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 11 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 12 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 13 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 14 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
| 15 | Of course many of the less respectable saints remained on the calendar , their only usefulness being the excuse for a holiday or a village carnival . |
| 16 | Any lack of precision or clarity may provide an excuse for a dispute or even litigation : for example , if it is not clear when payment is due , the client 's customer may rely on the uncertainty in the terms to withhold payment until the latest possible date . |
| 17 | She also carefully lectured me on the possibility of me treating a baby as a fashion accessory , or something to use as material for an article or two , or even worse — as the excuse for an article or two being late . |
| 18 | Land-agents are employed to act for the landowner in negotiating compensation for disturbance created by the working space needed for engineering operations , which may sterilize crucial areas of corn or pasture for a season or more . |
| 19 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 20 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 21 | Often there is no further change for an hour or so . |
| 22 | Davide was disappointed : he 'd hoped to sell the coin for a lira or so . |
| 23 | Talks centred on increasing bilateral trade and plans for a tunnel or bridge link between the two countries . |
| 24 | Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program . |
| 25 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 26 | Some authorities refer to this measure as a unit or a standard drink . |
| 27 | ‘ They can learn the ropes for a season or two — and they wo n't get the stick they have to take in other leagues . ’ |
| 28 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 29 | This avoided the appearance of lowering rates which had often been at a " customary " level for a generation or more . |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall affect the duties or liabilities 3–32 of either seller or buyer as a bailee or custodier of the goods of the other party . ’ |