Example sentences of "or a pair of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |
| 2 | With compression fittings you need a pair of spanners — either open-ended ones to match each size of fitting you 're using , or a pair of adjustable ones otherwise . |
| 3 | If you sent me a single orchid , or a pair of |
| 4 | If we can find a process that affects only one piece in a face , then the commutator of that process with that face gives a 3-cycle of a piece , or a pair of flips or a pair of corner twists , depending on whether the process moves , flips , or twists the piece . |
| 5 | If we can find a process that affects only one piece in a face , then the commutator of that process with that face gives a 3-cycle of a piece , or a pair of flips or a pair of corner twists , depending on whether the process moves , flips , or twists the piece . |
| 6 | For a suggested minimum of £35 to Will Aid , they will draw up a simple will — or a pair of similar wills for couples , for £50 . |
| 7 | one expect to be comfortable if he is wearing a belt two inches too tight or a pair of shoes two sizes too small ? |
| 8 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 9 | Slippery seaweeds abound on most shores , and the choice of footwear is either gumboots , or plimsolls or a pair of old strong shoes . |
| 10 | WHEN shoppers buy a bottle of shampoo or a pair of shoes , they spare few thoughts for the environmental consequences . |
| 11 | Neither the gun nor the money had ever been found , nor was there any forensic evidence linking Kearney to either a hat , a bag or a pair of shoes found at the scene . |
| 12 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 13 | This dividend register will be the register which holds the product in multiplication , made up of the accumulator extended on the right by an MQ register ( on a computer with a single accumulator ) or a pair of adjacent accumulators ( on a computer with an array of accumulators ) . |
| 14 | For this reason , some computers have further instructions to deal with such operands , held either in a " double-length " accumulator ( the combined accumulator and MQ register , or a pair of adjacent accumulators ) or in two consecutive store locations . |
| 15 | The gift presented should be one of value and usefulness for setting up home ( so that she is not disappointed ) , perhaps with a memento of her bachelor days , such as a cassette by her favourite pop singers , but inside a container gift which is a joke , e.g. a silver cake slice , or selection of kitchen implements , or telephone address book , plus cassettes in the bottom of a pair of large man 's football socks ( the correct size to fit her husband to be ) , or a pair of pillowcases embroidered ‘ his ’ and ‘ hers ’ . |
| 16 | Or a pair of full-length curtains could be hung from a pole across the wall in front of the bow , framing the windows by day and closing off the alcove at . |
| 17 | A much more satisfactory method is to reduce the bushy foliage by about a third with a sharp knife or a pair of scissors . |
| 18 | The three eldest girls , Agnes , Sarah , and Nancy only worked infrequently at pressing , as if perhaps to get some cash for a new dress , or a pair of shoes , but possibly to assist the family in times of particular money shortage . |
| 19 | It was a zip-up pocket intended for golf balls and perhaps a pipe or a pair of gloves . |