Example sentences of "[noun] or a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 15 of the Act states that , unless the contract fixes the payment or a method of calculating payment , the supplier will be paid a reasonable amount . |
| 2 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 3 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's more important , this magnificent building or a bit of grass ? ’ |
| 5 | The proposal may be to replace just a single building or a row of shops , or there may be plans for a comprehensive redevelopment involving a whole block or more . |
| 6 | Section 11(1) of the 1968 Theft Act provides : … where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or a part of it , or collection or part of a collection housed in it , any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | But in the case of a single floor of an office building or a unit in a covered shopping centre , the landlord may have a legitimate concern to avoid the necessity of providing services ( eg heating , lighting , hot water , security ) for one tenant only . |
| 8 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 9 | The only equipment you need is a watch or a clock with a second hand or second display . |
| 10 | The ‘ lunatics ’ , in contrast to those who proclaimed their rationality , offered no justifications beyond a dislike for non-whites or a liking for violence . |
| 11 | Most heads felt that the quality of education in their school had increased due to either financial devolution or a change in personnel or a combination of both . |
| 12 | Under CONTEXT ( see the discussion of discourse situation , 8.1 ) we consider the external relations of a text or a part of a text , seeing it as a discourse presupposing a social relation between its participants ( author and reader ; character and character , etc ) , and a sharing by participants of knowledge and assumptions . |
| 13 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 14 | There was also a large new bookshop and several shops selling stationery and filing cabinets and offering the opportunity of faxing or photocopying documents of such significance that they must be duplicated , but Camille 's mother could not buy a mop bucket or a length of elastic or a wheel of cheese without going to the centre of town . |
| 15 | And if you 're going to do thin metal objects or a sort of aluminium frame , do not use the dye stamps on those . |
| 16 | Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not , however , constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguise to restriction on trade between member states . |
| 17 | These 300 suffered from a series of various iatrogenic complaints , including occasional disruption of the reproductive system , loss of hair or a change in its colour and texture , and a variety of eye disorders including the development of cataracts . |
| 18 | The proverbial " Never venture , never win " is pronounced with a rise or a fall/rise at the word " venture " . |
| 19 | Cover the salmon with kitchen foil and press the salmon down with a weighted board or a couple of heavy cans . |
| 20 | Use a board or a line as a guide when cutting straight edges or a length of hose pipe for curves . |
| 21 | Is it a hiatal hernia or a portion of oesophagus lined by columnar epithelium ? |
| 22 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 23 | What is n't so clear to the pension investor is the impact on their final returns that results from a reduction or a termination of regular premiums , and the situation that arises on the investor 's death before drawing retirement benefits . |
| 24 | Certainly when the population was declining , one would expect that tenants might be hard to find and that concessions to them might be necessary , either in the form of a rent reduction or a cut in the entry fine , or in an extension of the period of the lease . |
| 25 | A herd of deer , a pride of lions or a pack of wolves has a certain rudimentary coherence and unity of purpose . |
| 26 | After all , all those who know and love this House of Commons well understand that it is not just a vehicle for legislative progress or a machine for rubber-stamping international treaties . |
| 27 | Those cases are where the matter or transaction in relation to which the offence was committed , was a contract or a proposal for a contract with , amongst others , a public body ; or a sub-contract to execute any work comprised in such a contract . |
| 28 | Such sites can be useful , however , as a collection of pottery may indicate earlier occupation on a site than could be discerned when it was pasture or a field of unploughed earthworks . |
| 29 | Protective measures included staying indoors during the passage of the radiation cloud ; the removal of the outer leaves and washing of vegetables , and the washing and peeling of fresh fruit ; the ban by Western European countries on the importation of fresh food from areas of Eastern Europe within 1000 km of Chernobyl ; the restriction in consumption of fresh milk and free-range eggs ; the removal of cattle and sheep from open pasture or a ban on their sale ( for example , 2.5 million sheep in parts of north Wales were prohibited temporarily from being moved or slaughtered ; Kerr et al. , 1989 ) ; the taking of prophylactic potassium iodide tablets to saturate the thyroid with iodine so as to minimize the amount of radioactive iodine being taken in ( this measure was adopted most extensively in Poland ) ; the advice not to drink fresh rainwater ; and the warning to the public about possible contamination during outdoor activity . |
| 30 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |