Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times . |
| 2 | They may , for example ( to paraphrase the original submission ) either broaden their areas of study in order to learn the principles and methods of several disciplines or concentrate on a more extensive study of a single discipline . |
| 3 | The success of the small claims system in these courts has shown that simplified procedures can enable people to conduct their own cases or rely on a lay adviser . |
| 4 | Ectopic varices , defined as varices arising in sites other than the oesophagus or cardia of the stomach , may develop spontaneously following endoscopic obliteration of oesophageal varices or occur as a result of surgery and subsequent adhesion formation . |
| 5 | The students may measure the cans or refer to the information sheet for dimensions . |
| 6 | We still work in the same building , so we 'll often pop into each other 's offices or talk on the phone , although Peter often blips me on my computer . |
| 7 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 8 | Some warrens are so extensive they can range over as much as 50 acres or take in a complete gravel working . |
| 9 | They participate in large numbers in the political arena — they always have — but they do not define their own demands or decide on the direction of movement . |
| 10 | Celtic students , if not native speakers of Gaelic , are similarly required to attend summer schools or reside in a Gaelic-speaking community in circumstances approved by the department . |
| 11 | Children with mild learning difficulties may attend ESN(M) special schools or pass through the normal educational system . |
| 12 | Her head did not precisely ache , but it felt hollow and somehow precarious ; and she found it hard to make her muscles work so that she felt as though she might trip over her own feet or walk into the furniture . |
| 13 | You can even feel the deck shift beneath your feet or shiver in the ice cold arctic wind . |
| 14 | Cos it people come off the sites or go to the corner shop , do n't cross the road . |
| 15 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 16 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 17 | The present study then is concerned to explore the role of the emotions or affect in the social life of the Tolai of Papua New Guinea , a group well-known in the ethnographic literature with whom the researcher has himself worked earlier . |
| 18 | Oh , I felt tempted to wander , to spend one day , one night in my old haunts or slip across the river to the stews and brothels of Southwark but Benjamin insisted I follow my own advice . |
| 19 | I know what you 're going to say , if you did look up you 'd probably step in a pile of dog turds or walk into a lamp-post , but I 'm serious . |
| 20 | You can get free NHS wigs and fabric supports or help towards the cost if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 21 | If you stand where King Harold 's men awaited William 's troops or walk through the actual battlefield you can almost sense the battle all around you . |
| 22 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |
| 23 | The children should be allowed to make things or play with the wood as they wish , but other materials may extend the possibility for experiment . |
| 24 | Vertical restraints imposed by the manufacturer can in principle control all these problems or deal with the externalities involved . |
| 25 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 26 | Strain the custard to remove lumps or whiz in a blender for 60 seconds . |
| 27 | You can walk through unspoilt mountain scenery , picnic in clean tasting air , ride cable cars above the trees or relax with a round of golf . |
| 28 | Customers can register their organisation names or apply to the Registry for a unique set of IPX addresses — or both . |
| 29 | Outward investment may be banned because it weakens the balance of payments and allows the life-blood capital to leak out of the system , whilst inflows of currency may be repulsed because they cause the exchange rate to rise to unacceptable levels or add to the domestic supply of money and thus threaten inflation . |
| 30 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |