Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are using a full 24 bit colour photo-retouching or vector graphics drawing program on a system which can only display 16 or 256 colours Windows will attempt to represent all the screen colours required . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs relied on an express term set out in the letters of appointments written to the defendants as follows : You will not disclose any of the company 's affairs or any of its subsidiary or associated companies business or trade secrets to a third party either during or after you have ceased to be an employee of the company without the express written consent of the company . |
| 3 | At museums or historic buildings children , often dressed in costume , may be able to use and handle old equipment — old washing equipment , for instance , or Victorian schoolroom equipment . |
| 4 | For instance , schools might make one of the four arts subjects compulsory or might institute modular or combined arts courses to cover two or more of the arts subject . |
| 5 | For advice on detailed or specific matters readers are advised to consult their own lawyers . |
| 6 | Club members are serving or retired police officers , customs officers or prison officers . |
| 7 | An unearthly character , not to be forgotten once seen ; a man in the stylish accoutrements of an English country gentleman or retired guards officer — without a moustache — but totally lacking in the phlegm and equanimity associated with one . |
| 8 | The hard hyphen is used in words or figures which should not be separated by a line-ending even though they contain hyphens : a name like Templeton-Brown , for instance ; or 1939–45 or -5 degrees C. |
| 9 | Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing . |
| 10 | If plays like Design For Living or Private Lives foreground the witty , hedonistic , passionately abandoned side of the bitter-sweet couplet , then Brief Encounter is the key text of the opposite side . |
| 11 | Have we coped with the very different needs demanded in small groupings of workers based in small shops , or residential homes , or private sports centres , small offices or even individuals working on their own ? |
| 12 | By contrast , the fastest growing places were smaller cities and towns at some distance from the major metropolitan centres , most of them involving overspill arrangements under the New or Expanded Towns schemes such as Milton Keynes ( Bucks . ) , |
| 13 | You can then choose from a very wide range indeed , from lengths of artists ' or sail canvas ( available quite cheaply from art supply stores or marine goods suppliers ) to upholstery fabrics and velvets . |
| 14 | Graduates who hold a first or second-class honours degree in a relevant discipline or applicants deemed by the Senate to hold equivalent qualifications , are eligible for admission as research students . |
| 15 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 16 | Now they are £47m , or 22 months expenditure . |
| 17 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 18 | 2 Prohibition of entry to anyone working for the companies involved in the competition , including the sponsors , publishing house and competition handlers , advertising or public relations consultants . |
| 19 | Other functions which might bc identified , for example , are staffing ( ie. filling positions in the organisation with people ) , leading ( unlike commanding , ‘ leading ’ is concerned with the interpersonal nature of management ) and acting as the organisation 's representative in dealing with other organisations ( ie. an ambassadorial or public relations role ) . |
| 20 | The three weekly markets and four annual fairs were a regular attraction for buyers and sellers within a 10 or 12 miles radius . |
| 21 | The snag is that in countries with persistently high inflation hardly anyone holds paper money ; instead they put all earnings in index-linked bonds or interest-earning savings accounts . |
| 22 | The GP is the one who is very likely to know his patient well and if he finds him with chest pain of at least 15 or 30 minutes duration in the classic distribution , with no previous complaints , and obviously not a malingerer , that individual should have thrombolysis as rapidly as possible . |
| 23 | Their bosses , sitting on the senior loan committee , are pragmatic , nuts-and-bolts bankers whose grasp of local banking is often profound , the product of 20 or 30 years experience . |
| 24 | New developments — In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 25 | In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We always knew we would have to deal with this at some stage — maybe in 20 or 30 years time — but the damage caused over a couple of nights during January and February was much worse than we ever anticipated . ’ |
| 27 | Be it a selection of flags of the World or top sports stars , it could take a lifetime to collect a complete set . |
| 28 | Jacket potato with I ounce roast beef , or roast pork or ham ( with all fat removed ) or 2 ounces chicken ( no skin ) served with Branston pickle and salad . |
| 29 | The associated power change would be 200 rpm or 2 ins MP . |
| 30 | The amount required would be 200 rpm or 2 ins MP . |