Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] or a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main clause , for its part , expresses a judgement about or a reaction to the fact of the infinitive event 's having acceded to existence . |
| 2 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 3 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 4 | Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime . |
| 5 | As the book unfolds , the condition of trees becomes an index of or a metaphor for the health of the surrounding culture . |
| 6 | on , on a team of or a contract of four men . |
| 7 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) Interest is not taxable whether it forms part of a judgment debt or a payment in or a settlement ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , s329 ) . |
| 9 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 10 | Yeah I would agree with that but I do n't think there is er any excuse for a woman to or a man for that matter to say women deserve rape says M P's wife . |
| 11 | Hume 's wife sued , claiming that she had never met Setty , let alone had an affair with or a child by him . |
| 12 | So I went to the council and they offered me h re or a boarding house . |
| 13 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 14 | The archaeological researcher John Barnatt has recently re-examined alignments , first noted last century , of stone circles onto key peaks on Bodmin Moor in or a wall , and has come up with favourable results . |
| 15 | ( a ) an interest in or a background knowledge of basic book-keeping |
| 16 | Nearly all the pupils interviewed used counting on or a mixture of subtraction and counting on methods . |
| 17 | When you 've got a Mel Smith on or a Michael Caine or a George Melly , then you know it 's going to be all right . |