Example sentences of "or [noun sg] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treatment of tissue sections with neuraminidase had no significant effect on the expression of Lewis or ABO antigens in the liver or colon . |
| 2 | Domatia on the abaxial surface of leaves are usually small invaginations or hair tufts in the axils of the veins . |
| 3 | It can be used to gain access to libraries or computer rooms in the buildings . |
| 4 | Slash chords or barre chords in the upper registers are fairly usable , however , and the trem has a beautifully lazy , sweetly-damped action , adding some gentle and melodic pitch variation to the occasion . |
| 5 | Illustration of typical constructions or sentence patterns in the target language . |
| 6 | Students pursuing MPhil or PhD degrees in the department will be given the opportunity of attending postgraduate MSc courses taught as part of the Scottish Doctoral Programme ( a collaborative venture involving all eight Scottish universities and based at Glasgow , where the MSc component is taught ) . |
| 7 | More complex techniques have been developed for approximate string matching , allowing for possible spelling or recognition errors in the input word ( Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Kashyap and Oommen , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | As many as 50 per cent of women complain of vagina or bladder problems in the years after the menopause . |
| 9 | Individuals taking trace elements or vitamin supplements in the previous six months were not included . |
| 10 | To allow sufficient time in the post for training in investigation techniques and the all-important legal aspects and also for the accumulation of a broad experience at this fairly unusual job , it is desirable to recruit inspectors at a reasonably early period in their career , especially if they are ultimately to rise to supervisory or management positions in the organisation . |
| 11 | Drivers and adult or child passengers in the front of cars MUST wear a seat belt . |
| 12 | A woman who waited three days for news of her husband while he was stranded without power or telephone lines in the American hurricane , now knows he 's safe and well . |
| 13 | The studies reported in this table did not control for maturity or seasonality effects in the distribution , that is , they studied the distribution of futures price changes or returns across all seasons of the year and for a variety of contract maturities ( maturity effects on the distribution are discussed in Chapter 8 , while seasonality effects are considered in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ What would we look for — elevated levels of antibodies , or enzyme changes in the blood ? |
| 15 | UTV presenter Paul Clarke casts an expert eye along the row of ‘ oscar 's ’ , which will be presented to companies and their employees who have helped to support charity or community projects in the province . |
| 16 | There are no drugs or appetite suppressants in the pack . |
| 17 | None had any complicating medical condition or previous history of gastric surgery , or had taken antibiotics or bismuth preparations in the previous six months . |
| 18 | They could compare that with the way our milk is delivered in bottles today , or sold in cartons or plastic bottles in the supermarket . |
| 19 | William Waldegrave , the Health Secretary , announced on Feb. 17 that although the government had never accepted the argument for a general scheme of " no-fault " compensation for medical accidents , it had now agreed , at a cost of £12,000,000 , to extend compensation to the estimated 70-80 people who had been infected with the AIDS virus HIV as a result of National Health Service blood transfusions or tissue transfers in the UK . |
| 20 | He has ruled out any keel or mast changes in the four days left before the final trials but hopes he can find more speed by using new sails . |
| 21 | For more security and peace of mind , this low-cost insurance option guarantees your mortgage or loan repayments in the event of accident , sickness or unemployment . |
| 22 | It also leaves few opportunities to create new play or pedestrian areas in the narrow streets . |
| 23 | The utility of science was indeed everywhere urged , just as the utility of classics was urged for those who were to be legislators , justices of the peace or district officers in the colonies . |
| 24 | Education ( the most expensive local government function ) is the responsibility of county councils or district councils in the areas which were formerly covered by metropolitan counties . |
| 25 | The purchaser should ensure that it is not restricted from issuing notices of assignment by any of the announcement or confidentiality restrictions in the sale and purchase agreement . |
| 26 | It can either refuse to comment on the possibility of a move until some concrete decisions have been taken as to where the company will relocate to and when the move will occur or it can adopt a more open style and keep the staff or union representatives in the picture about developments taking place within the relocation programme . |
| 27 | Co-operation with teaching staff or subject departments in the use of the library as part of a specific teaching programme . |
| 28 | Before the first Non-Aligned Summit in Belgrade , the Soviet media tried to persuade the Yugoslavs that the Warsaw Pact member countries ‘ have no military , naval or air bases in the territories of foreign states ’ , and that they ‘ exert constant efforts for the relaxation of international tension and the suppression of the hotbeds of military conflict created … by imperialist states ’ such as Suez . |
| 29 | The primary purpose of the GSP is to produce a comprehensive database on the concentration of up to 30 elements in stream sediments ( or soil samples in the absence of drainage ) collected at an average density of I per km² ; throughout Great Britain . |
| 30 | The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up . |