Example sentences of "or [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
2 | A full on-licence enables the licensee to sell liquor for consumption either on or off the premises to any member of the public who is permitted by the law to consume it . |
3 | " Public house licence " which authorises the sale by retail of alcoholic liquor for consumption on or off the premises . |
4 | " Public house " is defined by s.139(1) as including an inn , ale-house , victualling house or other premises in which liquor is sold for consumption on or off the premises . |
5 | It was held that they were entitled to do so on the basis that a public house licence authorises the holder to sell by retail alcoholic liquor for consumption on or off the premises and an off-sale licence authorises the holder to sell by retail alcoholic liquor for consumption off the premises . |
6 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Act , no person shall , except during the permitted hours : ( a ) sell or supply to any person in any licensed premises , or licensed canteen , or in the premises of a registered club any alcoholic liquor to be consumed either on or off the premises , or consume in , or take from , any such premises any alcoholic liquor . |
7 | How many passengers is it envisaged will get on or off the trains at Stratford ? |
8 | Always put the cleaner first onto a clean , lint-free cloth to stop fluids getting into ventilation slots or between the keys of the keyboard . |
9 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
10 | This problem can be solved by shortening distances between jumps or between the elements in a jumping lane . |
11 | ‘ Even if you woke the child up again to clean his or her teeth , some of the sugar is bound to be retained in the crevices on or between the teeth . |
12 | ‘ Even if you woke the child up to clean his or her teeth , some sugar is bound to be retained on or between the teeth . ’ |
13 | The legal issues are best understood by distinguishing between the benefit of a contract and the burden of a contract , or between the rights and entitlements of a contract and the obligations to be performed under a contract . |
14 | Superb photographs illustrate the remarkable life-cycles of ferns and their close relatives , and their extraordinary adaptability — for example , ferns growing in impenetrable mangrove swamps or between the boulders of the Mexican desert . |
15 | Cover includes transit by sea , air or rail during the period and in or between the countries mentioned in the Green Card . |
16 | A few coarse hairs may grow round the nipples or between the breasts . |
17 | Other such epiphytes include some bromeliads and several orchids , where ants live in hollow pseudobulbs or between the roots . |
18 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
19 | These are a pair of very mobile jointed appendages which are articulated with the head in front of or between the eyes . |
20 | There was no significant correlation between rates of change of bone density at the two sites , or between the rates of change and the initial bone density either in the radius or spine . |
21 | Therewas no significant correlation between the baseline values of bone mineral content/bone width or bone mineral density and the subsequent changes in bone mineral or between the rates of change of spinal and radial bone mineral density . |
22 | All of these took place on the eve of or during the decades of greatest activity in antislavery . |
23 | Sixty-seven per cent of creditors had no knowledge of the debtor 's financial state at the time of the original transaction , and 77 per cent did not obtain any further information before or during the proceedings . |
24 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
25 | Firms form regional alliances either generally or for the provision of specific services whether for clients or for the firms themselves . |
26 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
27 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
28 | It was less than an hour since Chen had come from the singsong house ; not time enough for anyone to have discovered Liu Chang 's body , or for the girls to have undone their bonds . |
29 | If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand . |
30 | This limitation does not apply to any transaction for the Firm 's own account or for the accounts of an Associate provided that such transactions : |