Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there seems no doubt that this intense life of the mind often reached a point either of aching or of languor . |
| 2 | Sex is capable of great devotion towards good or towards evil … |
| 3 | A southern Italian , he had taught up until now in a village near Naples and could not speak a word either of Slovene or of Triestino . |
| 4 | Women with uncooperative husbands were forced to resort either to wiles such as these or to abortion . |
| 5 | The importance of boredom and aimlessness is very much obscured by most popular treatments of police work , whether in fictional or in documentary style . |
| 6 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 7 | There was no significant relation between diabetic control and the number of general practice consultations in the previous two years , either in total or for diabetes related reasons . |
| 8 | SUCE has agreed that SCOTVEC awards may be accepted as satisfying , either in full or in part , the general entrance requirements . |
| 9 | Payments were withheld or recovered in full or in part in 39 cases . ’ |
| 10 | The answer will depend on what assumptions are made about whether the £24,000 invoiced in 1989 had been included in full or in part in the 1989 accounts . |
| 11 | Fees are payable before the commencement of the course , either in full or in stage payments for distance learning programmes . |
| 12 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 13 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 14 | That is nothing like the invasion of a new social class into British letters in general or into fiction in particular . |
| 15 | British fiction , whether in original or in translation , often dominates sales across the world , and in a manner that might sometimes remind one , a little distantly , of the vast international triumphs of Walter Scott and Charles Dickens in their heyday . |
| 16 | I have never in my life , in public or in private , in earnest or in jest , either called or even thought myself a fascist . |
| 17 | And the issue was still very much alive , for here beside him , listening alertly and with a dry little smile , was the earl of Leicester , who , whether in earnest or in mischief , was urging a plea of his own for the same prize . |
| 18 | Departmental expenditure on travel and subsistence by staff member and department from 1988 or by department since 1986 on both computer disk and paper file . |
| 19 | Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call . |
| 20 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |
| 21 | Russells Hall estate is not typical of its immediate surroundings as only 6 per cent of the population are aged 10 or under while 52 per cent of the estate population are 50 or over . |
| 22 | Over the past two decades the resident population in Scottish mental hospitals fell by 20% but the proportion of residents aged 65 or over rose from 45% in 1970 to 66% by 1988 . |
| 23 | Toxoplasma cysts are killed by freezing or by heating above 45°C . |
| 24 | And I see that by the left or the right , by compact or by conquest , come they will . |
| 25 | Provided that the Corporation shall not be liable in respect of any accident caused directly or indirectly by through or in connection with any Motor Vehicle by which such Caravan is being drawn . |
| 26 | The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock . |