Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VIII cared little about evidence or the finer points of law . |
| 2 | In 1986 tax liability was abolished on gifts made outright to individuals or put into trusts for children , as long as the donor survives seven years from the date of the gift . |
| 3 | Optional Excursions and any charges made locally by hotels or others for a la carte dishes , entertainment , sporting amenities and equipment , and telephone connection charges . |
| 4 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 5 | In the no-nonsense art world of Cologne where the word hand-written , printed , or tele-generated prevails , naturalistic painting occupies an ambivalent zone , a hot seat encircled alternately by irony or slightly apologetic nostalgia . |
| 6 | Another marked difference between the effects of cholera toxin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide or prostaglandins is that secretion stopped promptly after prostaglandin or vasoactive intestinal polypeptide infusion . |
| 7 | The major loss was through transfer out as fifteen people were relocated or moved abroad on promotion or on changing to a new firm . |
| 8 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 9 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 10 | He stopped neither to rest or eat until it was almost dark . |
| 11 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 12 | Every sound of the wind and rain seemed now like footsteps or the faint rattle of spears . |
| 13 | I hastened there without delay or ado . |
| 14 | Much of it is clearly apologist , particularly that produced directly by TNCs or by public relations firms on their behalf ( for which see the analysis of Stauffer , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | And you went to school in the morning but never knew whether your house was going to be there when you got home for dinner or whether you 'd still have a mum and dad and |
| 16 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 17 | General measures to stimulate accumulation in Japan differed little in kind or degree from those employed elsewhere . |
| 18 | With tongue and teeth he gave a tight rasp and turned away in boredom or vexation or distaste . |
| 19 | Strictures were classified as benign or malignant on the basis of histopathology obtained either at endoscopy or surgery . |
| 20 | Many enter research , especially in the pharmaceutical , agricultural and food industries , depending on their specialisation and interest , and a common route for doing this is a higher degree , obtained either at Edinburgh or at another university in Britain or abroad . |
| 21 | ‘ What sort of information ? ’ she whispered over her open menu , fascinated yet uneasy at this glimpse into a world she had thought existed only in books or TV movies . |
| 22 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 23 | I ought to have explained in my letter — as is made clear in my book — that the case studies are those of pathologically disturbed men ( and some women ) ; people locked away in asylums or prisons , or who have paid for their vile perversions with their lives . |
| 24 | Quorum maintains that it relied solely on Motif or Open Look for the pull-down menus and uses Adobe Display Postscript or SunSoft Inc News for screen rendering and therefore could hardly have infringed Apple 's patent or copyrights . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Levellers did challenge the traditional view that political rights belonged exclusively to property- or landowners , and asserted the democratic proposition that those persons whom Cromwell loftily described as having " no interest but the interest of breathing " had political rights too . |
| 26 | Lord Caplan said : ‘ A parent who loses a young infant will experience the same sense of loss irrespective of whether the injuries causing death originated shortly before birth or shortly after birth . ’ |
| 27 | It has created a world of mobility : of rapid and constant change , with attention focused mainly on novelty or utility — a world eager to break free from tradition which has become irrelevant to a restless , fast-moving age . |
| 28 | Every season Glentoran and Linfield won everything , and I thought it was a fantastic result when we only lost narrowly at Windsor or the Oval . |
| 29 | All employment must be fairly remunerated , established either through law or collective agreement , with particular attention to those workers not subject to the " normal " employment contract of indefinite duration . |
| 30 | ( d ) The gang may be constituted of two or three core members with other tradesmen or labourers employed either on daywork or discounted rates . |