Example sentences of "or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach .
2 A great talking-point , on or off the 'phone — turn your desk into a helipad !
3 Anyone can have HIV : young or old , hunky or thin , black or white , on the scene or off the scene .
4 Use the same command , preferably at a relatively early stage once the dog has settled down after being let out of the car , or off the leash .
5 Neither could they smoke or ‘ be guilty of noisy behaviour or bad language on or off the course ’ .
6 It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure .
7 Available on or off the bone , the meat is usually from only the breasts of the birds and is lightly smoked , moist and quite delicious .
8 So you figure that he either hit his approaches stiff — or off the radar screen .
9 The bottom line is , of course , that Yorkshire have signed a fine cricketer who is good enough to do well wherever he is either on or off the field .
10 Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field .
11 The Colemans were driven to Filanta Court , on Archbishop Makarios Avenue , and handed the keys of No. 62B , a large three-bedroomed apartment with a balcony overlooking the port of Larnaca from which everybody getting on or off the ferry from Lebanon could be observed through binoculars .
12 As far as possible , the trained staff on our non-emergency vehicles are reserved for high-dependency patients , travelling on wheelchairs , or even stretchers , or who require significant assistance on or off the vehicle .
13 The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past .
14 In earlier version of the program it was impossible to line anything up anyway because the program 's internal accuracy was insufficient ; the classic 11 point being converted by the program into 10.98 point with the rounding errors occasionally throwing an extra line on or off the page .
15 The word ‘ new ’ did not actually appear on the order form but nevertheless it was clear from the form that the car would come either from the manufacturer 's stock at the factory or off the production line .
16 An offer of merchandise is communicated to the customer in , on or off the pack .
17 But if I am competing , on or off the track , I want to win .
18 But he did n't stop drinking on or off the set .
19 Right , she was in the swimming suit right , and she diving off the board or off the side or something .
20 The next 3 Surveys will investigate in greater depth the factors that assist or impede the various activities of farm families on or off the farm , whether agricultural or nonagricultural , paying special attention to the impact of policy .
21 Or off the ground .
22 The foundation stage is then followed by , or merges into , a more specific stage which provides a more specialized education or training , which may be on or off the job , or a mixture of both .
23 Clicking on this reveals the SmartIcons dialog box and it 's pretty obvious how this works — you simply drag icons on or off the list on the left of the screen .
24 For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state .
25 The transfer of energy caused by a difference in temperature between a system and its surroundings or between a system and another system is called heat .
26 The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies .
27 Certain treaties have been entered into between States , or between a State and an international organisation , to give protected status to an identified group of people .
28 Even more striking testimony , however , of the indissoluble and complex bonds between the church and the crown , or between the church and the realm , is the nature of Stratford 's principal antagonist and the defender of the crown 's position : William Kilsby , canon of York , and archbishop-elect there ( though unsuccessful ) .
29 It is to capture this function that Althusser defined the state to include almost all non-economic organizations , except the revolutionary party of the working class , in the process definitionally obliterating the difference between input politics and state organization , or between the state and society ( Polan , 1984 , pp. 34 — 5 ) .
30 Between the single or divided trochantin and the episternum , or between the trochantin and the precoxal bridge , there is frequently an inner sclerite or antecoxal piece .
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