Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] or " in BNC.

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1 In FE centres , National Certificate Modules make up the main part of the curriculum , whilst in schools , modules are used mainly to supplement other courses and as taster or enrichment courses .
2 Black can be mixed in as well and these , and the PMS colours , can be used both for fills and as line or text .
3 Under Article 26 a State may , if required to do so because of constitutional limitations ( and on the basis of reciprocity ) , request reimbursement by the requesting State of fees and costs for the service of process on an unwilling witness and for his attendance , and for transcripts or evidence .
4 In a softer yarn it can be used as a bedjacket and for girls or slim ladies , it makes an excellent skirt when sewn into a tube .
5 And for good or ill , once she makes up her mind nobody tells her what to do — not even the Queen .
6 And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner .
7 He described it as " very backward " and claimed it had " not matured and through cowardice or through lack of experience keeps quiet when there is , for example , a violation of democracy " .
8 Rather like Henry Cooper , he would splash it on all over before and after battles or liaisons .
9 Good works sold both above and below estimate or did not sell at all , and the determining factor may have been a lone telephone bidder working against the reserve .
10 Although this turned out be the quietest piece of the whole site , at the far extreme a very small hammered coin came to light which looks to be 16th/17th century and of Italian or Papal States origin .
11 ( Counts can be made of the occurrence of individual letters in specific word positions , and of pairs or triplets of letters , when estimating the spatial redundancy of a word . )
12 All these figures show that , in broad terms , four out of five full-time professional judges are products of public schools , and of Oxford or Cambridge .
13 If one can speak of Robinson Crusoe as a ‘ myth of capitalism ’ and of Frankenstein or Dr Faustus as ‘ myths of scientific man ’ , then The Lord of the Rings could be claimed as a ‘ myth against discouragement ’ , a ‘ myth of the Deconversion ’ .
14 extensive reporting of the location and targets of cross-references , and of invalid or ambiguous cross-references .
15 Also , there 's a risk of overdosing , and of HIV or hepatitis infection through sharing needles .
16 Many pilots are unaware of the significance of dirty wing surfaces and of rain or drizzle on both the performance and the stalling characteristics of gliders .
17 The frame-work of the actual tent was hung with linked curtains of linen , over which was a layer of goatskin , topped with two weather-proof coverings ( of rams ' skins dyed red , and of sealskin or porpoiseskin ) .
18 A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline .
19 To take the problem first : it is caused by the fact that there are literary modes beneath romance and beneath epic or tragedy , i.e. ‘ low mimesis ’ -this being the mode of most novels , in which the hero is much on a level with us — and lower still ‘ irony ’ , where heroes turn into anti-heroes like Sancho Panza or Good Soldier Schweik or Leopold Bloom .
20 To me it is essential to serve fruit fools in glasses or in simple white cups , and with shortbread or other such biscuits to go with them .
21 ‘ Small Road roller ’ — not steam powered , unladen weight not over 11.68 tonnes , not made to carry loads and with metal or hard roller .
22 Serve well chilled in glasses , or in one large bowl , with a layer of thin pouring cream floated on the top , and with sponge or shortbread fingers .
23 When pasture is ploughed up or overloaded by nitrogen input , organic nitrogen is oxidised and the highly soluble nitrate ion is washed quickly through the soil and into rivers or groundwater .
24 ‘ Story ’ , ‘ travel ’ and ‘ journey ’ all blur together , drawing on Federman 's study of Beckett , the title of which is incorporated into this text and into Double Or Nothing , so that once again traces of realistic action have a metaphorical role to play .
25 Mirror panels are expensive of course and you must ensure that large slabs of it can be got through doors , up stair-wells , and onto lifts or elevators .
26 In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients .
27 Thus the presence of many ancient meteoric vadose zones may be difficult to determine from petrographic evidence and from field/core or geochemical techniques .
28 Some sample at times which fit in with their journeys to and from home or the laboratory .
29 This is the best time of the year for seeking out the Great Bear , though from most of Australia and South Africa it is always very low , and from Sydney or the Cape only part of it rises .
30 And before Athelstan or Cranston could do anything , the madman bit into the hen 's neck and tore its throat out .
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