Example sentences of "[noun] for the [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 2 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
| 3 | Advance corporation tax not recoverable against the mainstream corporation tax liability for the current or previous years is written off to the profit and loss account unless its future recovery can be foreseen . |
| 4 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 5 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 6 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 7 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 8 | While SUGA is mainly a group for social events and self-help , the local carers officer , help members to plan sessions on careers guidance for the 50 or so members . |
| 9 | Sometimes differences in terminology are merely the use of different words for the same or similar groups ( such a ‘ West Indian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ ) ; at other times , different sets of terms refer to different classifications and different ways of classifying . |
| 10 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 11 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 12 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 13 | Their responsibilities include ensuring availability of the master tape to suit the release schedule ; overseeing the production of artwork for the sleeve 's manufacture ; preparing the appropriate campaign for the single or the album release ; and keeping within the promotion budget which is prepared with the marketing director . |
| 14 | If none of these ideas is possible , would she be willing to spend a few weeks each year in a home for the elderly or , if she is infirm , in a nursing home or a local National Health Service hospital ? |
| 15 | The unsanitary condition of almost every orphanage or home for the disabled or mental asylum is striking testimony to the distorted priorities of the regime . |
| 16 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 17 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 18 | Mr Smith hopes that his campaign will attract the support of all organisations for the elderly or those on low incomes . |
| 19 | But from this comes the need for the resupply or , less agreeably , for keeping some part of the underclass in continued and deferential subjection . |
| 20 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 21 | It is certainly not a tree for the impatient or faint-hearted gardener . |
| 22 | Older pupils with a more developed reading level will be able to make far better use of the wealth of documentary sources for the Victorian or twentieth-century periods . |
| 23 | Dr Mann 's central theme was the ability of humanity to use scientific knowledge for the good or the bad of his fellow man . |
| 24 | It 's also put together a rescue strategy for the 40 or so licencees of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc Risc/OS which will allow them to migrate over to Unix SVR4 : the MIPS operating system is being retired by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 25 | Additionally , widowed mothers receive an extra payment of£9.75 a week for the first or only child ; and £10.85 a week for each other dependent child . |
| 26 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 27 | If you 're not going to use them , the Richmond and Dales Talking Newspapers would love to have them they use them to buy cassettes on which to record the paper for the blind or partially sighted . |
| 28 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 29 | an acknowledgement , and acknowledgement in a manner to be agreed , if that really is , I mean if we put our twenty thousand pounds to pay for the lift for the disabled or something like that , |
| 30 | Group membership includes all those attending a Medau class in a residential home or a Day Centre for the elderly or disabled . |