Example sentences of "or [noun prp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Mediterranean or Caribbean the peak sunlight lasts longer and is more reliable , while the wind 's strength is frequently weaker than in the UK . |
| 2 | It can be taken to extremes , as when Woolworths took every ad in the Daily Mirror , or Fisons every ad in The Times . ) |
| 3 | No , March the th oh yeah it 'll be March the third or March the tenth . |
| 4 | No more dolies or William the bear to cuddle and hug , no more fairy stories at nanny 's knee it is all aboard the fairy bus for the dungeons . |
| 5 | Mandalay claims it , and the claim seems reasonable until you see Meiktila , a city of tents , or Myingyan in ruins , or Myitkyina a big sprawling village of huts , or Yenangyaung a derelict area of rusting oil derricks , or Prome flat and deserted . |
| 6 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 7 | Is there a single Escort , Allegro or Sierra the length and breadth of the land which is n't emblazoned with some message the driver is desperate to convey to fellow motorists ? |
| 8 | The absurdity of applying this label to Nazarean thought — an absurdity comparable to calling Marx an ‘ heretical Marxist ’ or Freud an ‘ heretical Freudian ’ — was conveniently overlooked . |
| 9 | As under the old régime , the political police , now called Trinh Sat or Cong An , was the main buttress of the régime . |
| 10 | A famed enchantress , known also as Morgaine le Fee , or Morgana the Fairy . |
| 11 | Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did . |
| 12 | By June or July the insect may have gone . |
| 13 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 14 | Such association as there was between Stoker 's vampire and the historical Vlad IV of Wallachia ( 1431–76 ) , known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler , may have been suggested by his friend Arminius Vambery , a Hungarian professor learned in Transylvanian folklore . |
| 15 | I 'd said warily , expecting Lorne or Meadowbrook or Frank the Phone . |
| 16 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 17 | Erm a , Miss , Mr or Mr the new deputy . |
| 18 | Whether the artist of these three was Mikon or Polygnotos the evidence does not allow us to say . |
| 19 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 20 | Larkin in his Domesday of Kent , mentions Humfridus Loripes or Humphrey the bandy leg , he states this is a decided nick-name . |
| 21 | In that case so can you or I. The next point is that the special rennet that professional cheese-making demands is available only in bulk , and therefore — since only a teaspoonful or so per half-gallon of milk is required — of little use for making cheese at home . |
| 22 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 23 | There is a cult of the Holy Spirit , and often it has precious little to say about Jesus or God the Father . |
| 24 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 25 | Whilst the manner of non-statutory assessment is a matter for the school or LEA the Act prescribes a formal assessment procedure . |
| 26 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 27 | Last Tuesday or Wednesday the traffic on UUNet over this BSDI suit ( see front page ) got so heavy the protesters formed their own group ( alt.suit.att-bsdi ) — and this before the news hits the fan that the University of California , Berkeley is being brought up on charges too . |
| 28 | Friday the thirtieth of April , Tuesday the fourth of May or Wednesday the fifth of May . |
| 29 | If Judas Thomas , or Jude the Twin , were indeed Jesus 's twin brother , what would have been his status among his contemporaries ? |
| 30 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |