Example sentences of "or [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 2 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 3 | Some , including Portland , Oregon , charge $1 or so to recycle a tree . |
| 4 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 5 | My advice to agencies : send someone out with a quid or so to buy a magazine before you advertise in it ; or better still , have those editorial folk over for a Gordon 's & Tonic . . . . |
| 6 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 7 | The introduction of new partners involves similar problems whether they arrive as part of an expansionary exercise or merely to replace a partner who has died or retired from the firm . |
| 8 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 9 | Whether you are leaving on a more or less amicable basis , perhaps just a luckless victim of business recession or a change in management style following a takeover , or in an atmosphere of mutual recrimination , it is usually possible sooner or later to strike a deal with the company which satisfies both sides . |
| 10 | If anyone believed that by wearing , bestowing or even consuming particular substances it was possible to avert poison and other evils or positively to advance a cause , it was comforting enough to ensure the continuity of such beliefs . |
| 11 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 12 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 13 | The customer may telephone to place an order ; to enquire about a product ; to ask about days and times of shop opening ; to complain about the quality of goods or service , or even to offer a word of praise |
| 14 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 15 | There is no chance of a quiet evening slumped before the telly , or even to read a novel . |
| 16 | As a consequence it is essential to abrade the surface of a coin ( on its edge ) , or alternatively to drill a sample from its centre ( typically using a 1- or o.5-mm drill from the edge of the coin ) . |
| 17 | The caravan already has a busy diary for the summer but anyone interested in having it along to a community event , or simply to visit a neighbourhood , should contact their local divisional police headquarters and ask for the crime prevention officer . |
| 18 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |
| 19 | It would have been ridiculous to write about Marilyn Monroe [ he is the author of Goddess ] without covering her sex life , or indeed to write a biography of anyone without discussing sexuality . |
| 20 | If you should ever want to go fishing , or maybe to take a look at the bird islands , you will just let me know ? ’ |
| 21 | Futures and options funds are emerging , offering at last the chance to lose all of your investment or maybe to make a lot . |
| 22 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 23 | He dithered , wondering whether to go to the restaurant for a cup of coffee while hoping Hunter-Blair would return or else to find a telephone and call his office . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 25 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |