Example sentences of "or [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bullfinches may strip buds from fruit trees in early spring , wood pigeons ruin winter cabbages and cauliflowers and uproot seedlings of peas and beans in spring , or strip buds of fruit from blackcurrants and other fruits . |
| 2 | Since the Khartoum regime launched a five-pronged ‘ final offensive ’ against the mainly Christian or animist rebels in early March , its army has taken Pochala , Col Garang 's hometown of Bor , and a string of smaller towns , advancing to within 30 miles west of the rebel headquarters at Torit . |
| 3 | This might include the party concerned divesting itself of its shares , complying with the Code ( sometimes subject to stricter conditions ) , allowing concessions under the Code to the other party to the takeover , suspending its voting rights or board appointments in respect of the target and increasing the bid price . |
| 4 | Youths in outsize hats , lounging in the doorways of shops and cafes , with hands thrust deep into their pockets , gossip and smoke , jog on the spot to keep warm , or lob snowballs at each other across the road , over the roofs of passing cars . |
| 5 | Treatment of tissue sections with neuraminidase had no significant effect on the expression of Lewis or ABO antigens in the liver or colon . |
| 6 | Remember , there were no typewriters or photocopier machines in those days . |
| 7 | Most of these detailed demographic studies have been made with pasture or woodland systems in northern temperate regions and it could well be that in arid zones , and some other extreme environments , biotic pressures are less dominant and then climatic factors may play the major role in killing plants and in natural selection . |
| 8 | In Japan and America , some doctors are trying out remote control telemonitoring of pregnant women or heart patients at risk of raised blood pressure . |
| 9 | Domatia on the abaxial surface of leaves are usually small invaginations or hair tufts in the axils of the veins . |
| 10 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 11 | Now , music is so undifferentiated and ubiquitous that young lives are measured instead by TV commercials or computer games with Bomb The Bass backing tracks on them . |
| 12 | It can be used to gain access to libraries or computer rooms in the buildings . |
| 13 | For one thing , the men she went with did n't usually have bathrooms with bidets , or loo seats in real Earth wood . |
| 14 | But the problem of draughts can be simply and effectively solved by filling in any gaps around windows , doors or skirting boards with draughtproofing materials . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Choose simple starters such as chilled fruit juice , melon , clear soup , salads with a little olive oil dressing , or seafood dishes without sauces . |
| 17 | Illustration of typical constructions or sentence patterns in the target language . |
| 18 | Dialects are forms of the language which have certain different words , meanings or sentence constructions from the rest of the language . |
| 19 | This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases . |
| 20 | Most evenings at Fontainebleau were , however , marked by innocent pastimes ; charades or parlour games with occasional improvised dancing to a tune picked out on a piano . |
| 21 | Local gangs also improvised local variations in style — velvet caps in Battersea or plaid caps in Poplar , for example , as a badge of identity — and there were certainly trend-setters among the Hooligans . |
| 22 | Place any half or part widths to the other edges of the curtain , when making a pair so that you have a left and a right hand curtain . |
| 23 | Christine is continuing her collection and asks us to tell all knitters in the Crewe/Stoke-on-Trent area that two wool shops near you have offered to collect full or part cones in good , clean condition . |
| 24 | Typically , the broad changes are gradual , the addition or subtraction of a handful of courses or course combinations in any one year , the first usually reflecting potential student demand or research developments , and the second often stemming from resource and staffing problems . |
| 25 | This shift factor has also been defined as the ratio of relaxation or retardation times at the temperatures T and T o i.e. and is related to the viscosities . |
| 26 | Spare fuse wire or cartridge fuses in ratings to match the fuseways in your fusebox/consumer unit . |
| 27 | You should also use END to stop BBCBASIC(Z80) " running into " any procedure or function definitions at the end of your program . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | It will be of particular interest to analysts investigating batch-to-batch product variations seeking adulterants in samples , characterising or sourcing raw materials and monitoring for specific components or component mixtures in a complex chromatogram . |
| 30 | More or less universal was the practice of allowing cash or kind allowances to married men with children , to bring their basic earnings up to a bare living ; in return they could be hired out in gangs , work on the roads , or if the critics are to be believed , do nothing . |