Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An interface , in computer jargon , is simply a means of connecting the computer to the world outside its box — in this instance we are concerned with connecting printers but it could equally be a cassette recorder , joystick or another computer that we wished to connect . |
| 32 | Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything . |
| 33 | Flies can be captured in the summer months with a net attached to your car bumper or another area while you drive along or can be ‘ hatched ’ from anglers ' maggots . |
| 34 | These deep structural problems are cultural and political as well as economic , and will require far more than the odd adjustment to monetary or fiscal policy if we are to begin to solve them . |
| 35 | ‘ We would like to make it clear that we will not talk to pro-British or British newspapers and we want reporters to stay away from our family home . ’ |
| 36 | Last season Ian gained full International honours , completed his century of Palace goals to join the select group of just five men to have achieved that feat for us since the club 's foundation back in 1905 , and scored twice as Palace beat Everton 4–2 to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final at Wembley , while his virtuoso hat-trick , scored in just eighteen minutes during the second half of Palace 's penultimate game of 1990–91 , at Wimbledon , demonstrated in magnificent style that when Ian is on form there is no more dangerous or exciting player than he in the entire Football League . |
| 37 | There are no English churches named after the old boy , or old boys as it happens . |
| 38 | The organisers suggest using Thruxton or Old Sarum if you plan to arrive by air , but no transport has been arranged to the show . |
| 39 | If the cylinder is already installed , you need only to drain it , unscrew any blanking cap ( or old immersion if you 're replacing ) and screw the new one in place using the washer supplied . |
| 40 | In Wordsworth 's case , as we might expect , most of the paintings show him in middle or old age after he had become famous . |
| 41 | It too easily discards the spiritual dimension of human experience as attributable to some kind of personal or social pathology and it creates a taboo a bit like the one there used to be about sex . |
| 42 | Workers are usually paid on a piece-work system and receive no legal or social benefits as they are not applicable to temporary agricultural work . |
| 43 | Third , a labour market can be defined by sex , age or social class and we can refer to the female labour market or the market for young , middle-class executives . |
| 44 | The animal 's essence ( or the Spirits of Nature ) will seek redress or retribution against the hunter , his family or social group if it is killed without prior approval or proper conduct . |
| 45 | Moreover , the large number of coins which have survived and the way they have survived in hoards has made them the most datable objects from the ancient or medieval worlds that we possess . |
| 46 | cover the concrete with either polythene sheeting or wet sacking while it cures . |
| 47 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 48 | Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method . |
| 49 | Such mastery , however , will normally be brief ; it is unlikely to outlast the passing of crisis and/or movement in the cycles of history ; it will not survive substantial loss of congressional or popular support and it will be relentlessly eroded by the passage of time . |
| 50 | Of course , the moral or symbolic stature that he gained from making the right choice at the outset did not guarantee de Gaulle his triumphant arrival in North Africa in mid-1943 . |
| 51 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 52 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 53 | She had already refilled his glass five or six times but she had no idea why he was drinking so much . |
| 54 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 55 | He walked away five or six steps and I was still there . |
| 56 | He painted them both five or six years before he died . ’ |
| 57 | There is usually a different exhibition every month or six weeks and they cover a wide range of subjects : contemporary and historical exhibitions of painting , sculpture , photography , tapestry and other crafts . |
| 58 | There is usually a different exhibition every month or six weeks and they cover a wide range of subjects . |
| 59 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 60 | There is a real need here both for a more flexible employment situation , which could absorb older people in less arduous or part-time work if they required it , and for more efforts to prepare people for retirement , helping them to develop time-consuming , absorbing and possibly profitable hobbies in advance of finishing work . |