Example sentences of "and [noun pl] or [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder if tempers are sometimes frayed and words or actions rough . |
| 2 | Secondary sources also include artists ' illustrations and interpretations of historical events , archaeologists ' reconstruction drawings , and models or pictures purporting to show how things used to be . |
| 3 | We have not mentioned what happens if the cause of death is unknown and inquests or autopsies have to be carried out ; or if the deceased person wanted to donate organs ; if they wanted to be buried in another country , and so on . |
| 4 | The Geneva report lists the problems associated with age , cycles attempted , and eggs or embryos transferred , but makes no recommendations for standards of practice . |
| 5 | This plan of alternating narrative and poetic lyricism was , of course , the outline scheme for many of the older operas , using recitative for the narration and arias or choruses to expand on the emotional and poetic episodes . |
| 6 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 7 | The beans are ground as soon as possible after roasting and either packaged for use in percolators and cafetières or freeze dried to make instant coffee of distinction . |
| 8 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 9 | Farming began to flourish in the Lothian plains once the bogs had been cleared and fords or bridges provided over the network of rivers and streams . |