Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] one [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 2 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 3 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 4 | I do n't yet know what their comments will be and I ‘ m not trying to influence them in one direction or another . |
| 5 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |
| 6 | With the notable exception of Britain most of them in one way or another involved the banks , either directly or through the fashionable device of the crédit mobilier , a sort of industrial finance company which regarded the orthodox banks as insufficiently suited to or interested in industrial financing and competed with them . |
| 7 | Superstars at the top earn large sums of money from endorsements , public appearances and sponsorship in addition to their prize money , while thousands more exploit them in one way or another . |
| 8 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 9 | The woman is the carrier of evolution for him in one way or another . |
| 10 | If at the end of the specified period , or such longer period as he may allow , they have not satisfied him in one way or the other , the voluntary process ends and he may apply to the court . |
| 11 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 12 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 13 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 14 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
| 15 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 16 | And you can bung , you can bung some bipolar adjectives underneath it of one sort or another er |
| 17 | The bistable is often called a ‘ flip-flop ’ because you can ‘ flip ’ it into one state or ‘ flop ’ it into the other . |
| 18 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 19 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 20 | It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another . |
| 21 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 22 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 23 | There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another . |
| 24 | A little while ago , we heard about something called AIDS , and it 's something that 's terrified most of us in one way or another . |
| 25 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 26 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 27 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 28 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 29 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |