Example sentences of "or [vb base] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Many firms , therefore , pay retention bonuses or give redundancy payments above the statutory minima to those staff who stay until an agreed date .
2 Col Gaddafi has until April 15 to hand over two suspected bombers of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in 1988 or face UN sanctions including a cut-off of air traffic and arms sales and an enforced reduction of Libyan diplomatic representation abroad .
3 To achieve the acidity , filter the water through aquarium peat or add peat blocks below the gravel .
4 The second decree had ordered payment to each person with a savings account or state savings bonds of a one-off bonus calculated at 40 per cent of the value of the account or bond holdings .
5 Many wander aimlessly in the shopping centre , or play games machines in the arcades .
6 a blockage a significant blockage on the A sixty one increase journey times or reduce journey times on the A sixty one as opposed to southern bypass and A one .
7 Flora was only a nuisance , stopping after seconds of weeding to write her name in pebbles on the lawn ( all ready for the tender teeth of the mower blades ) or float daisy heads in a puddle , and Peter was never so galvanized by holy necessity calling from the far side of the parish as when the garden was mentioned .
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