Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] or [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the vast majority of these funds are in the names either of my wife or daughter casts a further question over my personal financial awareness , but that is not the point . |
| 2 | Conversely , sixty-three per cent of those who do not go to church report that none of their friends or acquaintances has ever invited them ’ ( McGavran and Hunter 1980:33 , 34 ) . |
| 3 | None of their friends or family had ever been to university . |
| 4 | If , for instance , guests used a swimming pool at a hotel after dark , it is clear that they have by so doing stepped outside the scope of their invitation or permission to use that part of the premises , and a duty is not owed to them . |
| 5 | However , making prescribed drugs less easily available is unlikely to help most patients unless it is accompanied by discussion of their problems or referral to appropriate agencies . |
| 6 | Petty was evidently of sufficient prominence in the radical popular movement , among those soon to be known as Levellers , to be chosen as one of their spokesmen or representatives to attend the meetings of the general council of the army in 1647 . |
| 7 | Often visitors to Paris used the good offices of their embassies or legations to procure an invitation , for on these occasions there were no formal presentations to the Emperor or the Empress , except for the Ambassadors and their wives . |
| 8 | First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business . |
| 9 | Local authorities are statutory corporations and are sued as such regardless of which of their officials or members did the challenged act(s) . |
| 10 | ( b ) We accept responsibility for death , bodily injury or illness caused to your or others named on your booking form by the negligent act or omission of our employees , agents , suppliers or sub-contractors or of their employees or agent acting within the course or scope of their employment ( other than that of air , sea and land carriers performing any domestic internal or international carriage whatsoever where we limit our liability to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage ) . |
| 11 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 12 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 13 | Nor , it is submitted , can it properly be regarded as one in pursuance of which possession or ownership passes either . |
| 14 | The Software Foundation had originally planned to do the work internally , after none of its members or founders volunteered , scared off by IBM 's experience of integrating the Management Environment 's companion piece DCE , the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 15 | OSF had originally planned to do the work internally , after none of its members or founders volunteered , scared off by IBM 's experience integrating DME 's companion piece DCE , the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 16 | BSDI , which the USL suit suggests is in collusion with CSRG , declines to publicly identify any of its founders or investors declaring such information ‘ proprietary ’ on the basis that BSDI is a closely held company . |
| 17 | In any case a company formed under the Companies Act has a considerable power of altering the objects stated in the Memorandum of Association which is signed by its first members at the formation of the company , subject to the power of the holders of fifteen per cent of its shares or debentures to apply to the court to cancel an alteration . |
| 18 | At half past eight she will go downstairs to see what is happening in the kitchen , to see if Charles is in his place , to see if any of her children or stepchildren have yet descended , to prepare to receive her guests . |
| 19 | An identical sum was bequeathed by Margaret , countess of Foix , vicomtesse of Béarn and Marsan , in March 1319 , to send a Béarnais noble of her family or household to serve in Outremer . |
| 20 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |
| 21 | The under sheriff then issues a warrant for one of his bailiffs or officers to enforce the judgment by seizure of sufficient goods of the defendant to cover the judgment debt and costs , any accrued interest ( from date of judgment to date of payment ) , the sheriff 's charges , the fee on a writ of fi . |
| 22 | Len Murray , the General Secretary , worked solidly on behalf of the government 's 5 per cent policy but , unlike his predecessor Vic Feather , had no illusion of his power or ability to dictate to autonomous and all-powerful national unions . |
| 23 | Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility . |
| 24 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
| 25 | Of course it turned out not to be a Gainsborough , in spite of what Evans or Owens had said . |