Example sentences of "or [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a localized condition or the sign of a generalized bodily disorder ? |
| 2 | Sometimes sharp points develop on the edges of the teeth which will lacerate the tongue or the inside of the cheek . |
| 3 | Can I feel more pressure on the outside or the inside of my feet ? |
| 4 | Read the book it will tell you there 's probably an explanation on the cover or the inside of the cover pass me the coffee please . |
| 5 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 6 | John 's extreme aggression to himself and others was a sign that he was no longer responsive to self-control or the standard of protective control which his family could offer . |
| 7 | Very little is known about wages and prices or the standard of living before the Industrial Revolution : this project aims to explore some of this ground by the systematic collection of data from estate records , tax rolls , JPs ' records , merchants ' papers and other sources . |
| 8 | True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester . |
| 9 | Where the seat rails taper from top to bottom , as in the back of this chair , it is important to note on the plan whether the section is through the top or the bottom of the seat rail . |
| 10 | In the case of a word processor , there 's usually a border around the working area and a menu either along the top or the bottom of the screen . |
| 11 | equations this one go on the top or the bottom of the fraction or what ? |
| 12 | Pycnogonids are small spider-like creatures , ½ inch to 6 inches long depending on the species , which are not uncommon on seashores all over the world , clinging to sea anemones or the bottom of rocks ( Figure 8.9 ) . |
| 13 | ( d ) The warrant is necessary , for example , because consent could not be obtained for the search or the element of surprise is necessary . |
| 14 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |
| 15 | Subsection ( 3 ) makes it clear that a licence may be suspended not only on the grounds of the actings of the licence-holder but also on grounds attributable to the actings of persons frequenting the premises or the vicinity of the premises . |
| 16 | Illness , displacement by a younger brother or sister , or the divorce of parents are experiences from the past which can be interwoven with a current separation , overdetermining the strength of feelings and reactions in the present day . |
| 17 | When he took classes for McWhirter he stuck to the Romantics , or things that one could get a good adolescent wallow out of : Housman , say , or The Ballad of Reading Gaol . |
| 18 | If you do not wish to do so , then there are many other new angles of vision available to you : a child 's viewpoint , for example , an animal 's or the viewpoint of a stranger who may interpret familiar customs in unfamiliar ways . |
| 19 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 20 | While many language tests are relatively quick and easy to use , they do not generate the quality of information desirable for diagnostic statements or the formulation of remedial intervention strategies ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 21 | This may not seem the best way to promote democracy or the unity of India . |
| 22 | Firstly are those with little damage to the skull , where the ratio of isolated to associated maxillae is less that 0.5 ( column 5 ) or the percentage of maxillae in skulls ( per cent completeness ) is more then 70 per cent ( column 4 ) . |
| 23 | This belief may serve to minimize and underestimate the experience of anxiety in the eyes of the referring agent and the client , the latter becoming quickly dispirited , losing faith in themselves , the specific technique , or the skill of the therapist . |
| 24 | They do n't have to earn or even deserve the praise or the cascade of ‘ goodies ’ heaped upon them ; consequently they fail to recognize and attribute a causal connection between acceptable behaviour and rewards . |
| 25 | The modern mode : either the devil 's mark or the snorkel of sanity . |
| 26 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 27 | The first development , one we can already see , is resort by the contented in the larger cities to a laager mentality — the hiring of personal , neighbourhood or apartment security guards or the escape to presumptively safe suburbs . |
| 28 | The Holy Spirit is given us to identify us as belonging to Jesus , just as the seal on a letter or the brand on a sheep identifies it as mine . |
| 29 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 30 | One famous baby in the making encountered danger as Lady Di , or the Princess of Wales , fell downstairs but no harm came to , all being well , the future King of England . |