Example sentences of "[noun] or [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But pointing out limitations in a writer can sometimes seem arrogant , or at least condescending , as in this extract : At times Eliot is too confusing , too abstract and too well read , but his poems initially only demand a first response or simply an appreciation of the words , their structure , sound and order . |
| 2 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 3 | MacCormick suggests that it matters little , when faced with ‘ possible unjust exercises of the power of modern states organised under and in the name of ‘ law ’ … whether or not these represent a corruption of law in its ideal essence or simply an abuse of public power . ’ |
| 4 | Basically it means that the nervous system which passes through the wrist in the carpal tunnel has been stressed and the best cure is rest , or in the case of trigger finger , an injection or even an operation . |
| 5 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
| 6 | So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’ |
| 7 | Is there a phone number in the ad or just an address ? |
| 8 | The question or why an accident occurred , when an investigator is in possession of all the information as to what occurred , inevitably brings him into the troubled waters of ‘ human factors ’ . |
| 9 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 10 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 11 | The talkative bird , which is worth £300 , could let slip the name of one of its captors or even an address which could provide detectives with vital clues . |
| 12 | The cat looked like some great noble bird , a hawk or even an eagle , the golden streak down her nose giving the effect of a beak . |
| 13 | Newtown , Pennsylvania-based graphics chip maker Tseng Labs Inc says it is in discussions that might lead to it entering the business of development and production of audio chips : ‘ We 're talking to a lot of people in the sound area , both engineers and companies — because we do n't have any basic sound technology , we 're looking to acquire that either through people or maybe an acquisition , ’ Tseng vice-chairman Jack Gibbons explained to Reuter . |
| 14 | He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer . |
| 15 | This water movement may be achieved using a waterfall , fountain or even an aquarium airpump and stone . |
| 16 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 17 | Love is public duty or a political donation and the compensation is a pension or maybe an embassy . |
| 18 | In practice , the AIB inspectors know exactly what to look for in this highly technological activity while the coroner 's officer , who is usually a policeman — a PC or sergeant or occasionally an inspector — is totally in the dark . |
| 19 | Some propositions can be subjected to experimental test and the results used in the creation of an extended thesis or alternatively an antithesis . |
| 20 | ‘ Once in the VAT field it must however be appreciated that a business could go over the 7,200 threshold , as a result of increased business activity or even an increase in the rate of VAT . |
| 21 | On the other hand there was the demand , often locally generated , usually far more enthusiastically supported by parents and teachers , for an education which would produce a competent and reasonably docile junior civil servant , a clerk , storekeeper , interpreter or later an assistant this or junior that to work under a white colonial officer . |
| 22 | This is constantly done in Mincing Lane [ a street in the City of London ] , and the person who acts in this way is , perhaps , a quasi-arbitrator or even an arbitrator , but he is an arbitrator of a particular sort , and it is not intended that there should be the same judicial proceeding on his part as there would be in the case of an arbitrator appointed under a formal submission . |
| 23 | Thus , if a trustee of a family trust or a nominee or bare trustee or even an agent receives rent there can be a liability to income tax on him ( normally just at the basic rate but sometimes at the additional rate ) . |