Example sentences of "or [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement concludes a 33-year worldwide hunt for Mengele , who stood on the unloading ramp at Auschwitz sending Jews left to the gas chambers or right to the camp with a flick of his thumb . |
| 2 | One day I overheard my mother speaking to a friend , or rather to an acquaintance , since she was clearly deemed worthy only of instant or cliche speech . |
| 3 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 4 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 5 | 15 words or less to a sentence . |
| 6 | — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ; |
| 7 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 8 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 9 | This rugged piece of coastline , stretching for 100 miles or so to the south of the French border , is part of the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains . |
| 10 | Two miles or so to the south lies the village of Stockerston , now shrunk almost to a hamlet , with its attractive Perpendicular church standing alone on the hillside — a sure sign of some interesting change in village history . |
| 11 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 12 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 13 | From there she should be able to jump the eighteen inches or so to the towpath . |
| 14 | He made for the Druid 's Well , a mile or so to the east of the town . |
| 15 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
| 16 | From experience , I know it is better to walk the hundred yards or so to the rank outside Westminster Abbey . ’ |
| 17 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 18 | Just after nine she would join the throng of the prominenti and walk the two hundred yards or so to the conference centre . |
| 19 | Yet in the late seventeenth century the road to Buckingham ran roughly parallel to it , a mile or so to the south-east , through Stratton Audley . |
| 20 | It will hover , and dependent on wind strength , the lines will be at 85 degrees or so to the ground , the kite stationary nearly overhead if it is a good performer . |
| 21 | ‘ It can only be about thirty feet or so to the ground . |
| 22 | If , therefore , it is not clear whether a restriction applies to any transfer or only to a transfer to , say , a non-member , or to any type of disposition or only to a sale the narrower construction will be adopted . |
| 23 | If , therefore , it is not clear whether a restriction applies to any transfer or only to a transfer to , say , a non-member , or to any type of disposition or only to a sale the narrower construction will be adopted . |
| 24 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 25 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 26 | But , on reaching there , no vestige nor any sign of any material ship was to be seen either near or away to the horizon . |
| 27 | Students present to the rest of the class , or just to the teacher . |
| 28 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 29 | The spur cable can be connected at an existing socket outlet , or directly to the circuit cable using a 30amp junction box . |
| 30 | Official modes , such as the diplomatic channel , are more likely to be associated with communications which must pass between officials in the two countries , whilst the postal channel may be more appropriate for communications between huissiers or directly to the defendant . |