Example sentences of "for [art] [det] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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1 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
2 | Those who return for the same symptoms or are referred may require more attention . |
3 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
4 | Leave to dry for a few hours or overnight . |
5 | But in their Spitalfields Tartan Collection , the Stewarts have done the work for you ; silks , cottons , wools all match up so that it is possible to choose as much or as little tartan as you like , whether it 's for a few cushions or for some big and bold project . |
6 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
7 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
8 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
9 | Afterwards I have a rest for a few days or go swimming ’ |
10 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
11 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
12 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
13 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
14 | In some homes it is possible to stay for a few days or a week at a time either occasionally or on a regular basis . |
15 | ‘ Just for a few days or so … something to ease the pain ? ’ |
16 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
17 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
18 | Immerse the section , slab or plaquette in the reagent contained in a suitable dish or tray for a few seconds or until the yellow precipitate forms . |
19 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
20 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
21 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
22 | Those who could live on savings for a few weeks or months were ‘ that rare class ’ . |
23 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
24 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |