Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now they are £47m , or 22 months expenditure . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The three weekly markets and four annual fairs were a regular attraction for buyers and sellers within a 10 or 12 miles radius . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The associated power change would be 200 rpm or 2 ins MP . |
| 13 | The amount required would be 200 rpm or 2 ins MP . |
| 14 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 15 | Under experimental conditions , old people in NHS nursing homes may do at least as well as those in traditional geriatric wards , but the same can not be assumed of units removed from the traditions and surveillance of a health or social services hierarchy . |
| 16 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 17 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
| 18 | Details are available from area managers , regional managers or commercial operations manager Carol McGhie . |
| 19 | There are only oblique references to the fact that he refused to ‘ get involved ’ ( in what ? the peace or civil rights movement ? ) in the States . |
| 20 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 21 | With increasing homelessness during the 1980s , the government in 1991 proposed a new crime of squatting in shops and houses attracting fines of up to £5,000 or six months imprisonment and giving police powers to enter and arrest . |
| 22 | You know , in three months or six months time |
| 23 | Overnight temperatures will keep up , no lower than around five or six degrees celsius , that 's forty one to forty three fahrenheit . |
| 24 | That cloud in the west will keep temperatures around five or six degrees celsius , that 's forty three fahrenheit , but elsewhere the clear skies mean a cold night , with ground frost in most areas by midnight . |
| 25 | Five or six miles north-east of Scone stands the hill of Dunsinane . |
| 26 | Five or six teenagers loiter in front of a newsagent , drinking shandy and smoking . |
| 27 | It may be taken by any student as an outside subject , or may form the starting point for a single or joint honours MA in Scottish Ethnology . |
| 28 | An inter-parliamentary conference in Minsk on Jan. 24 was attended by the deputy chairmen of the parliaments of nine or 10 CIS member states ( Uzbekistan was not represented ; nor , according to some reports , was Moldova ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Five or 10 minutes walk from the House , it is off the beaten track , ’ says Tory MP Colin Shepherd , Chairman of the Catering Committee . |
| 30 | A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’ |