Example sentences of "or [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate . |
| 2 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 3 | These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems . |
| 4 | Or between a hundred people . |
| 5 | Erm so that it would be in our view desirable that the level of provision for York was that which was realistic to er to accommodate , in this case it appears to be thirty three hectares and that the er the a additional element should be located in in or between the other districts in the Greater York area . |
| 6 | There is a supplement of £10 per person for travel over a Bank Holiday which is applicable for outward travel on or between the following dates in 1992 : |
| 7 | Most of the research on this has been on conversational interaction of a rather restricted kind , such as between doctor and patient , teacher and pupil or between the various speakers in court cases . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers . |
| 9 | Well , we have n't had a single row er between the political parties or between the young people involved so far . |
| 10 | The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) . |
| 11 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 12 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 13 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 14 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 15 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 16 | And it can quickly produce a list of signs that need to be altered for a relief route or during a major road repair . |
| 17 | COHORT — A group of persons that has experiences the same event ( e.g. birth or marriage ) at the same time or during a specified period ; for instance , birth cohort or marriage cohort . |
| 18 | Other apparently trivial features are the ‘ errata ’ ( sometimes ‘ corrigenda ’ ) and ‘ addenda ’ , which are the mistakes and omissions discovered after the book has been printed or during the final stages . |
| 19 | Holders of one of the qualifications listed below who , in addition , may be required by the centre to undertake , prior to or during the early part of the course , a centre devised programme of bridging studies . |
| 20 | At night , however , or during the long school holidays , she read detective stories , earning the contempt of her father who told her that his answer to the question ‘ Who dun n it ? ’ was invariably ‘ Who cares ? ’ |
| 21 | They have erm in breaking new situations , if there is something big going on , you know , or during the democratic convention or whatever it is , or this Iraq thing , the anchors stay around the studio and then maybe do a replay , so to speak . |
| 22 | Mean arterial pressure was not different between the two groups during the placebo period 98 ( 7 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 9 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.9004 ) or during the whole treatment period ( 88 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the enalapril group and 90 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.5263 ) ( fig 2 ) . |
| 23 | Was the figure of 40,000 million gallons of flood water to which James Rougvie refers passing Perth in an hour , a day or during the whole period of the flood ? |
| 24 | It is difficult to sustain untruths and false masks over twelve months of contact in the field , particularly when this contact involves sharing private moments with respondents , such as those provided in the canteen or during the quiet hours of the might shift , tiding in the back of a vehicle or on security duty in the sanger ( guardpost ) . |
| 25 | The croak is produced by rapid fanning of the pectoral fins — a typical action when two male fish meet or during the mating period . |
| 26 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 27 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 28 | This option is available at any time but will be particularly useful where equipment is too large for transport or for a screened room and where harmonised standards are unavailable or where the nature of the product means that evaluation by an expert would be useful . |
| 29 | For shorter sessions or for a wandering style on rivers , a combination chair/rucksack , fold-up stool or chair , are better . |
| 30 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |