Example sentences of "or [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 2 | When it is sitting in the medicine chest or pharmacy it is not Homoeopathic at all ; it is just a potentised remedy ( potentisation is the name given to the process of preparation of the remedies used ) . |
| 3 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 4 | And then when you was boiling your potatoes or vegetables you you used to have tho th the iron saucepans in them days . |
| 5 | It is not always easy to know who does what at Trinity Road or who to speak to on any requests or queries you may have . |
| 6 | If we can write back to somebody , or send them the CD or shirt they want , we will almost certainly have them for life . |
| 7 | Her attraction had only grown ; he found himself trying to smell her hair when they sat together in pubs , he gazed out of the comer of his eye at her breasts under whatever jumper or T-shirt she was wearing , wanting to touch them . |
| 8 | Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5in × 6in — please include your boot size , the size of jacket , fleece or T-shirt you 'd like , and your size for waterproof pants — and send it to Outdoor Action Adidas Competition , . |
| 9 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 10 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 11 | And he said er no , he said er I hope you can swim er , he said because they 're rather unstable and er and he said , now erm if we er bump into anything like erm a he he hesitated in his speech and he said like a log or a er er or alligator he said freeze ! |
| 12 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 13 | Look , if she can send him to Westminster or Eton she 's got money . |
| 14 | Given some clay or loam it will thrive , producing beautiful , luscious leaves . |
| 15 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 16 | it keeps no record of wrongs or times she has told him to wipe his feet . |
| 17 | When he does specify precise quantities or times he is often wrong . |
| 18 | By depriving these children of the chance to learn languages or humanities we are depriving them of all those resources that the ruling elites of the country find so important . |
| 19 | To find out what is distinctive about the style of a certain corpus or text we work out the frequencies of the features it contains and then measure these figures against equivalent figures which are " normal " for the language in question.The style is then to be measured in terms of deviations — either higher frequencies or lower frequencies — from the norm . |
| 20 | express neatly and attractively an idea , comment or judgement you wish to make . |
| 21 | If they do not have enough hay or pasture they are liable to get intestinal problems , sometimes caused by eating inappropriate or unwholesome substances such as fence posts or mouldy hay . |
| 22 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 23 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 24 | A second point is that each investor must , in my opinion , be willing that there should be a rescission of the investment transaction in question and be willing to return any shares or money he has received under the transaction . |
| 25 | I pledge to increase the amount of time or money I give to environmental and development organisations . |
| 26 | If the title 's already registered , then as either seller or buyer you begin to reap the benefits of the system . |
| 27 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 28 | Mind you , it 's not sunbathing or badminton I have in mind but planting — what more satisfying thing is there to do in the garden than to plant bulbs , or a tree or shrub to give you joy for years to come . |
| 29 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 30 | You get to choose your holiday destination and departure date , we get to choose which hotel or apartment you stay in ( all of them will be near the main attraction of the resort centre ) , and you get to make big savings . |