Example sentences of "or [adv] [noun pl] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 2 | I have divided E and F according to whether they are actively engaged in projecting , i.e. either making something or merely percipients of a ‘ running ’ stimulus , a much more passive role . |
| 3 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 4 | Short wavelengths are measured in millionths of a metre ( 10 -6 ; m or micrometre , m ) or even billionths of a metre ( 10 -9 ; m or nanometre , nm ) . |
| 5 | Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle . |
| 6 | Are they distinct forms of the verb or simply variants of a single verb form — the infinitive ? |