Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun] " 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 | The vast majority of decisions within large corporate organisations are not made by the board or even by managers that board members could reasonably be expected personally to supervise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The existence or otherwise of ESP is one of the great mysteries of science , yet very few scientists show any interest in it whatsoever . |
| 6 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 7 | We talked for hours on end about the existence or otherwise of God , the futility of human life , and all the other things that sixteen-year-old girls find to discuss . |
| 8 | Your enquiries should , again , yield positive information about the existence or otherwise of mains drains . |
| 9 | ‘ It is possible an EC directive would be at the same level or just below UK standards . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | White worm thrive on small pieces of bread or rice crispies soaked in sweetened milk or even on porridge . |
| 14 | According to the proximity readout , the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 15 | The wort is then run into a copper where it is boiled for an hour or more with hops . |
| 16 | Structuring a complex essay may demand total , uninterrupted concentration for an hour or more before lunch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 20 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 21 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 22 | So , on her first day at work , Joanne spent an hour or so with Sue and then was taken round the Home . |
| 23 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 24 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 25 | ‘ Our coach was caught in the centre of an enormous traffic jam , and it looked as if we would be lucky to get to the station only an hour or so behind schedule . |
| 26 | As in the longer experiment , the subjects tended to sleep less during a three-month follow-up , indicating that even relatively short periods of training may be sufficient to reduce sleep requirements by an hour or so in individuals who wish to do so . |
| 27 | Their early bargaining patterns and nature of product markets at the time bargaining developed , the willingness or otherwise of employers to form bargaining coalitions in dealing with unions , the form of divisions between unions themselves , together with the role of state policy , have been the major , identifiable forces ( ILO , 1974 ) . |
| 28 | The source of these conflicts was the differing measures of willingness or otherwise of individuals or groups to suppress and control the inborn tendencies to satisfy the evolutionary appetites . |
| 29 | If you have the country parks and already there is no hunting on those parts open to the public there 's just about another hundred acres , that 's the Victoria Park or thereabouts in total . |
| 30 | The majority of absent parents er presently are fathers , so I 'm going to ask you given the current er , emphasis on er in , well in in in the media perhaps , rather tha , more than in real life on women going it alone , whether by necessity or indeed by choice . |