Example sentences of "[noun] or [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances the Local Government Superannuation Regulations or the Teachers ' Superannuation ( Scotland ) Regulations will be applied as appropriate in terms of the payment or otherwise of pension benefits . |
| 2 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |
| 3 | Data collected in budget preparation and monitoring are an invaluable input to a management information system which may be used to analyse trends within or between projects or perhaps between design groups in an engineering consultancy . |
| 4 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 5 | Man too has a mechanism of mimicry which goes back to the baby in the cradle answering its mother 's smile , older than any utilization for learning how others feel or how to pick up skills or even for play , and which can get out of control in neurotic echolalia and echopraxia . |
| 6 | In education , by contrast , even in the post ERA environment the classroom teacher , directly accountable for the progress or otherwise of student learning , has a bewildering multi-layered system of accountability to wade through . |
| 7 | The existence or otherwise of ESP is one of the great mysteries of science , yet very few scientists show any interest in it whatsoever . |
| 8 | Your enquiries should , again , yield positive information about the existence or otherwise of mains drains . |
| 9 | Trade terms will be 35% discount on orders of two copies or more per title , 20% on single title orders ; 30 days ' credit for orders of two or more copies per title , but single copy orders should be accompanied with payment by cheque . |
| 10 | If you receive payment for looking after one or more children who are not related to you , for 2 hours or more per day , then you should , by law , register with your local Social Services Department . |
| 11 | A benefit paid to people under 65 who spend 35 hours or more per week looking after someone who receives Attendance Allowance . |
| 12 | Twenty-two per cent of French women work part time and 64 per cent work 40 hours or more per week . |
| 13 | 59% of elderly carers spend 50 hours or more per week caring . |
| 14 | No one could work as many as 35 hours per week since Age Concern was unable to provide full-time contracts ; however four support workers in Newham and three in Ipswich did at one time work 20 hours or more per week ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 15 | Consultation with the CEO is required only where the post involves work of 16 hours or more per week . |
| 16 | If one partner is in full-time employment ( redefined as twenty-four hours or more per week and from April 1992 as sixteen hours per week ) , the other no longer has the right to claim income support . |
| 17 | Membership is automatic if you are at least 16 years old and work for 30 hours or more per week . |
| 18 | You are eligible to join providing you are at least 16 years old and work for 15 hours or more per week . |
| 19 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 20 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 21 | Soak the beans for several hours or overnight in water . |
| 22 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 23 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 24 | To get what they need , they cut down saplings and even trees with trunks a foot or so in diameter , gnawing through the wood with their chisel teeth . |
| 25 | White worm thrive on small pieces of bread or rice crispies soaked in sweetened milk or even on porridge . |
| 26 | According to the proximity readout , the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 27 | Structuring a complex essay may demand total , uninterrupted concentration for an hour or more before lunch . |
| 28 | During the final hour or so of cooking put the raisins and currants previously well washed , in a separate oven pot , and with water to cover them , to bake . |
| 29 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 30 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |