Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fan thinks for a second or two and then says ‘ OK where 's the bucket and spade ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Often needed in urticaria ( nettlerash ) which develops after a bite or sting ( see Urtica urens also ) . |
| 3 | Well they 're obviously not , looks like a pensioner or something , but eh , you know , erm I can , I 'll see if I can get an old , a walking club going with them , you know ? |
| 4 | I use a very small one that looks like a pencil or pen . |
| 5 | That looks like a face or something — a beak — it 's a face anyway ’ . |
| 6 | The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals . |
| 7 | As do higher-order animals , as anyone who lives with a cat or a dog will confirm . |
| 8 | Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 10 | Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one ? |
| 11 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 12 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 13 | But without it the advantages that a system of graded tests has over a GCSE or A level system will be lost . |
| 14 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 15 | If the material is tough no fracture occurs , and the curve then passes through a maximum or inflection point Y , known as the yield point . |
| 16 | This time the stick is held firmly back with the aileron central , and the wing will ( usually ) continue dropping so that the glider spins for a turn or so . |
| 17 | If an error occurs in a procedure or function call , ERL will return the number of the calling line , not the number of the line in which the procedure/function is defined . |
| 18 | Pound together the basil , garlic and pine kernels in a mortar or blender until you have a fine paste . |
| 19 | If an error occurs within a procedure or function , the value of any PRIVATE variables will be the last value they were set to within the procedure or function which gave rise to the error . |
| 20 | First , what happens to a site or cell in our lattice depends on the neighbours ' scores , and thence on the state of the neighbours ' neighbours . |
| 21 | After this virtuous start Ms or Mr Trim never , of course , succumbs to a biscuit or cake half-way through the morning . |
| 22 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 23 | But that 's like little stuff that costs about a quid or something like that , yeah ? |
| 24 | It applies where one party " deals as a consumer or on the other 's written standard terms of business " . |
| 25 | So for instance you may have already have a relational database management system , it may or may not be , but that information exists as a service or service provided on the network . |
| 26 | By ss20 and 21 of the Solicitors Act , a person who is not duly qualified to practise commits an offence if he acts as a solicitor or pretends to act as such . |
| 27 | but bringing a group of works together , an exhibition , in itself , acts as a frame or structure for a set of ideas . |
| 28 | Thus the quiteron acts as an amplifier or a switch , just as a conventional semiconductor might . |
| 29 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 30 | It amounts to a determination or tendency to accept as conceptually respectable , and as a report of reality , only what is in accord with some part of scientific practice , or a fully specified calculus , or particular and explicit scientific laws , or particular kinds of quantification , or some principle in the philosophy of science . |