Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
| 2 | And my instructions were that I I used to either let them have two thirds of that or a half , you see ? |
| 3 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 4 | If you would like copies of any of these or a list of the other factsheets produced send a stamped addressed envelope ( 9″ by 6″ ) to Age Concern England . |
| 5 | You can get a pension if you are a man of 65 or a woman of 60 , provided you have paid ( or been credited with ) sufficient national insurance contributions . |
| 6 | We already make exceptions to the capital rule where homes are occupied by a spouse , a relative over the age of 60 or a relative who is incapacitated . |
| 7 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 8 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 9 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 10 | Something 's got ta go , whether you give permission before this or an appeal . |
| 11 | It will not be a perfect signal everywhere — and by ‘ perfect ’ they mean as good and reliable listening as you get from long-wave or a cassette . |
| 12 | By keying in one or a number of search terms e.g. subject keywords , author or format , the user can broaden or narrow a search without any predesigned classification structure . |
| 13 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 14 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 15 | The role of providers , ie directly managed units , self-governing hospitals and private suppliers , is stated to be the delivery of ‘ contracted services within quality and quantity specification to one or a number of clients in return for agreed levels of income ’ ( DoH , 1989f ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Without ’ could mean either no headgear at all or a headgear which is not ‘ protective headgear ’ as defined : ‘ protective headgear ’ means headgear which |
| 17 | Why , then , should I be moved by cold or a stomach cramp ? |
| 18 | Multiplied by sixty or a power of sixty . |
| 19 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 20 | Practically all building materials are affected by one or a combination of the following : extremes of temperature dampness method of stacking or storing accidental or wilful damage avoidable or unavoidable wastage Sometimes deterioration may be difficult to detect and , perhaps even more important , actual realisable value may be negligible and in some cases negative , in that costs will be incurred in carting away . |