Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
2 | Seven or eight miles I should think . |
3 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
4 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
5 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
6 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
7 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
8 | When applied to particular urban or rural situations it will reveal the dynamics which , while attracting some into the fellowship of the churches , are at the same time excluding others . |
9 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
10 | Also when it refers to financial or economic affairs it is usually only bad news . |
11 | If you damage crops or upset animals you are making it more difficult for someone to earn their living . |
12 | By choosing a career in advertising or public relations you will be in this complex and exciting business of communication . |
13 | In either advertising or public relations you will work for many clients with a multitude of problems and try to offer them solutions . |
14 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
15 | Whatever the cells or subcellular particles you 're isolating , Nycomed products can be used to obtain very pure and clearcut suspensions . |
16 | Without stores or adequate sails they suffered great hardships , but eventually arrived in south-west Newfoundland , where Clerke knew the French Basques had fishing stations . |
17 | On it we normally get the full title and sub-title , the author 's name or pseudonym , his qualifications and , sometimes , the titles of other important or popular books he has written with , at the foot , the publisher 's imprint and , more often than not , the date . |
18 | When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat . |
19 | No , an oak table and an oak sideboard and that was all and just four chairs or six chairs I think it was , yes , er and it was erm that furniture was a utility , er I 'd forgotten about that , it 's taken me back now , that was a utility dining room suite of really first class quality , it was a tallish sideboard with two doors with big bow legs and a square table , erm , but it was solid oak really good |
20 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
21 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
22 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
23 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
24 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
25 | This is about five or six receptionists I said it to and they said : ‘ Oh , no . |
26 | Teamed with plain or multi-print shirts they look the part whether you are going for a meal , to the pub or to work . |
27 | Teamed with plain or multi-print shirts they look the part whether you are going for a meal , to the pub or to work . |
28 | The essence of diffusionism is that where you find the same or similar techniques you propose the existence of some form of cultural connection or ‘ borrowing ’ , especially when , in the case of material objects , the similarities do not stem automatically from the raw materials used , and where they are reinforced by large numbers of parallel instances . |
29 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
30 | Because of their contractual nature , however , unless the participating parties specify their application in the ‘ master ’ or individual agreements they have no effect . |