Example sentences of "or a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 2 | I 'm inclined to think that every dominant feeling in a story or a poem affects what is seen and needs to find its correspondences in events and objects outside , which in their turn make the feeling real to the reader . |
| 3 | It may be an appointment to meet a business colleague , or a promise to collect the children from a party so that they do not have to walk home in the dark . |
| 4 | But could refraining , or a promise to refrain , from smoking cannabis be sufficient consideration ? |
| 5 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 6 | The EPA says it was obliged to approve the pueblo 's standards : " If an entity such as a state or a pueblo wishes to adopt standards that are stricter than national standards , we can not stop them . " |
| 7 | This , however , need not so much reflect a decline of the village as a social centre ( its past vitality has often been greatly exaggerated ) as the extension of a wider range of choice to those sections of the rural population whose ownership of a car or a motorcycle has granted them easier access to urban amenities . |
| 8 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 9 | Nor is there much point in attempting to give a general impression of a show , as there is nothing to hold it together , unlike a group show with a programme or a manifesto to consider . |
| 10 | Then you can start looking at at er at alternatives okay , and what you end up with is a is a way of analysing er a decision or a choice to behave in a certain way , okay ? |
| 11 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 12 | Scheme organiser Dawn Whitton said : ‘ Entries can include written reports or publications , tidying up campaigns , landscaping projects , studies of a species of wildlife , repairs to an historic building or a scheme to enhance a new development . |
| 13 | If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success . |
| 14 | If a vehicle needs to be temporarily substituted for one of the operator 's authorized vehicles or a vehicle needs to be transferred from one operating centre to another the LA does not need to be informed . |
| 15 | This can be an estimate or a calculation based on the actual workload of the Offline System , displayed by option 9.8.0 . |
| 16 | The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds . |
| 17 | This figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit . |
| 18 | Children under one must be in an approved infant carrier designed for the baby 's size and weight , or a carrycot restrained by straps . |
| 19 | Besides , works can gain by the company they keep in a museum collection , a landscape being in a group of works of similar date and intentions , or a portrait seen among contemporaries . |
| 20 | If anything should happen to a diver 's umbilical , mask or helmet , this air supply can be used , either through a demand valve , a hose connected by a quick connect , or a hose end fed up through the neck dam of the helmet . |
| 21 | A corrective to eccentric views , or a stimulus to close argument in presenting them , is provided by discussion or by teaching , formal or ( particularly ) informal ; and this Swainson did not have . |
| 22 | What he produced was a gen-u-ine statement of skin ; a document to be placed alongside other such documents , delivered with the same How's-your-father flourish as a graffiti slogan on a council estate wall or a boot planted through an Asian 's shop window or a gallon of petrol poured through the letterbox of a Bengali family 's home . |
| 23 | Most language courses use dialogue or a narrative to present the language of the unit . |
| 24 | I 've never yet known a coal face or a driveway closed because of too much dust . |
| 25 | Old churches without this rich mix of gargoyles would appear muted and reinvented , like a present minus its past , a belief without its moments of uproar and despair , or a locality stripped clean of its ghosts . |
| 26 | In the fullness of time , we will afford , perhaps , to send you to a finishing school , or a conservatory to study music . |
| 27 | Edge curtains with a row of co-ordinating fringing or a frill to add to the layered look . |
| 28 | Green — rooms which have been confirmed , a deposit paid or a guarantee received . |
| 29 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 30 | They were not to have the grounds of referral explained to them , or a chance to have their say , for the second time . |