Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 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 | Your enquiries should , again , yield positive information about the existence or otherwise of mains drains . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | White worm thrive on small pieces of bread or rice crispies soaked in sweetened milk or even on porridge . |
| 11 | According to the proximity readout , the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 12 | Structuring a complex essay may demand total , uninterrupted concentration for an hour or more before lunch . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 16 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 17 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie . |
| 23 | I made a gallon or so of tea until I ran out of milk , then a pot of black coffee , and pressed every cup and mug in Sunil 's fitted kitchen into service . |
| 24 | Factions of labour that have through struggle or out of scarcity managed to create islands of privilege within a sea of exploitation will also just as surely rally to the cause of the alliance to preserve their gains . |
| 25 | Given this confusing welter of competing and combining philosophies , can we reach any valid conclusions about the rightness or otherwise of punishment ? |
| 26 | He pointed out that in many countries of Eastern Europe , Communists had been forced into coalition or out of government . |
| 27 | Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent . |
| 28 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 29 | Sheltering under the banner , or figleaf , of ‘ agricultural development ’ is not a proper stance for those who make decisions or principle , by action or equally by inaction , on major conservation issues , involving important principle . |
| 30 | She can establish grounds of contact , and continue them either as Princess or later as Queen . |