Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the whistle was finally blown on the crime by a disgruntled ex-employee , thousands of policy-holders and share-holders simply lost all or a substantial part of their savings or expected pensions , amounting to somewhere between two and three billion dollars . |
| 2 | Many cleaning machine manufacturers and suppliers often seem unable or unwilling to provide routine servicing for the machines they sell . |
| 3 | Pure liquids and solids often give broad or asymmetric bands and so it is very difficult to measure frequencies precisely . |
| 4 | Pat pushed over some chips , and Alice primly ate one or two , thinking about cholesterol . |
| 5 | For example , because LOEX only acquires one or two copies of each item of user education material from depositors , and because it is a nationwide service , it has opted for a loan system , with no material for retention . |
| 6 | For producers often internalize known or possible market relationships , and this is a very complex process indeed , ranging from obvious production for the market which is still the work the producer ‘ always wanted to do ’ , through all the possible compromises between the market demand and the producer 's intention , to those cases m which the practical determinations of the market are acknowledged but the original work is still substantially done . |
| 7 | It is not fanciful ( we have the evidence of the fifteenth-century French lord , Jean de Bueil , to show it ) to see them discussing war , its dangers , its ‘ occasions ’ rather as men today recall political or sporting occasions over a drink . |