Example sentences of "[noun prp] or a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 2 | It is present in standard experimental animals such as rats and rabbits which psychology and neurophysiology laboratories were familiar with , and did not require more exotic facilities like seawater tanks for Aplysia or a knowledge of a novel neuroanatomy like the chick ; and the techniques for investigation , such as recording electrodes and drugs , were all to hand . |
| 3 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 4 | The front pages of every publication from the Communist Party 's daily newspaper , Scînteia , through to obscure literary journals and even the calendar of religious festivals issued by the tame Orthodox Church , always displayed a portrait of Nicolae Ceauşescu or a photograph of the ‘ most beloved couple ’ . |
| 5 | No sooner than formally constituted , the Standard reported the links would become a great boom to the town , although before January 1907 was out , a Leader article read as follows , ( doubtless written by either Charles Luker or a member of the Club Committee ) — ‘ It is to be hoped that a commencement of the projected new golf links at Henley will not be long delayed . |
| 6 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 7 | Like Aurangzeb , Roshanara grew bitter and vengeful , a Regan or a Goneril to Jahanara 's Cordelia . |
| 8 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
| 9 | In general : " Year " can mean either a calendar year starting on 1 January or a period of 12 consecutive months . |
| 10 | But , to her intense relief , Ven did not pursue his thoughts in that direction , but continued , ‘ By my reckoning , be it a hire car back to Mariánské Láznë or a taxi to the airport , you 'd most likely need aid from someone to help you with language difficulties . ’ |
| 11 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 12 | Subject to the important exceptions below , the Transfer Regulations apply to the " transfer from one person to another of an undertaking situated immediately before the transfer in the United Kingdom or a part of one which is so situated " . |
| 13 | Whether this should be taken into account or not in calculating the value of total output depends on whether we require a measurement of the domestic output of the United Kingdom or a measurement of the output produced by all the factors of production owned by United Kingdom residents . |
| 14 | OK , you ca n't buy a hand bag on the Rue de Rivoli or a box at the opera but you do n't have to skimp on the house red . |
| 15 | North said he would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland or a ride on the space shuttle ; George Cave , the interpreter , offered to send the Second Channel to Miami Beach . |
| 16 | Whether you intend a five-star sojourn in the Bahamas or a fortnight under canvas in Calvados you can trim costs by choosing the form of travel money which best suits your needs . |
| 17 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 18 | But he says he would welcome another Mark Wills or a match with Derek Williams . |
| 19 | But he says he would welcome another Mark Wills or a match with Derek Williams . |
| 20 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 21 | Basic equipment : a large white food-grade plastic dustbin with a capacity of at least six gallons ; plastic tubing , about two metres long with an internal diameter of at least 10 millimetres ; a wine cube — the plastic cubes used in an off-licence for selling draught wine and sherry are ideal ; an air lock and rubber bung ; about 40 one pint beer bottles ; a corking machine and crown corks ; a sterilising agent such as Chempro SDP or a mixture of sodium metabisulphite and citric acid ; a 12 pint pan . |
| 22 | Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states . |
| 23 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 24 | Customers simply specify whether they want Token Ring , Ethernet or a combination of the two and the thing arrives in a single cardboard box . |
| 25 | To speak of a search for God or a relationship with God would perhaps be putting it too strongly . |
| 26 | The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter . |
| 27 | A CELEBRATION of Mass or a service of the Word ? — the choice will sometimes present itself when our speaker 's witness calls for time and flexibility for a worthwhile presentation . |
| 28 | Try W. S. Gilbert , Sammy Cahn , and Noel Coward or a dictionary of popular music |
| 29 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 30 | As the prophetic people flocked around Jesus , and as they saw the transformation in the lives of his disciples and heard the words of life and hope , they longed for a rebellion against the Roman occupation of Judea or a reformation of the Pharisaical law . |