Example sentences of "or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one with any experience of political meetings or grass-roots political movements and organizations can fail to have noticed how easily and naturally such groups and gatherings are dominated by white , bourgeois educated males . |
| 2 | Richard Baxter , for example , recalled in later life a vivid childhood memory of seeing his father reviled by his neighbours for his strict observance of the Lord 's Day , and for ‘ reproving drunkards or swearers ’ . |
| 3 | ta rip an flae an cast a bank or twa . |
| 4 | On a smaller , 65cm ( 25½ in ) parachute the shrouds can be 90cm ( 36in ) , and for a 2 metre ( 78in ) ‘ chute , up to the same dimensions , 2m or 78in . |
| 5 | The disregard of minorities , combined with what Hugo Young has called ‘ the politics of admissible ethnic sneering or loathing ’ , is of special concern to the Muslim community — the main victim of traditional racists as well as of the unresolved antagonism of the intelligentsia in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 6 | I hasten to add that no curse caused it — no hex or bewitchment , so far as the Adepts can determine ; nor even any lapse in liturgy . |
| 7 | Sticks or twigs can be used for poles , and ‘ chains ’ or necklaces suspended from ‘ pole ’ to ‘ pole ’ . |
| 8 | Your travel tickets from your chosen airport to Amsterdam and return ( or by rail or self-drive ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of you are emigres who , for one reason or another , have direct knowledge of KGB methods or operations in the USSR or abroad , but particularly in the United States . |
| 10 | The significance of many particular facts or operations could be perceived only with some background knowledge , which the uninitiated would have little wish or reason to acquire . |
| 11 | It identifies key issues directly affecting the company and gives advice on strategy or operations . |
| 12 | This portfolio management activity does not admit the need for a long-term commitment to any given company , its management , strategy or operations , even though these factors may be considered in assessing the future of the stock . |
| 13 | There is no conflict over ends — by definition , disease is an evil — although there may well be conflict over means as evidenced by disputes about ‘ unnecessary ’ medical procedures or operations . |
| 14 | Your knowledge of organisations can always be improved by visits to see particular processes or operations in action . |
| 15 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 16 | Also , treatment may require the restriction of food or fluid ( for tests , X-rays or operations ) . |
| 17 | ( m ) To control , manage , finance , subsidise , or co-ordinate or otherwise assist any company or companies in which the Company has a direct or indirect financial interest , to provide secretarial , administrative , technical , commercial and other services and facilities of all kinds for any such company or companies and to make payments by way of subvention or otherwise any other arrangements which may seem desirable with respect to any business or operations of or generally with respect to any such company or companies . |
| 18 | ( n ) To promote or form any other company for the purpose of acquiring the whole or any part of the business or property or undertaking or any of the liabilities of the Company , or of undertaking any business or operations which may appear likely to assist or benefit the Company or to enhance the value of any property or business of the Company , and to place or guarantee the placing of , underwrite , subscribe for , or otherwise acquire all or any part of the shares or securities of any such company as aforesaid . |
| 19 | ( m ) To control , manage , finance , subsidise , or co-ordinate or otherwise assist any company or companies in which the Company has a direct or indirect financial interest , to provide secretarial , administrative , technical , commercial and other services and facilities of all kinds for any such company or companies and to make payments by way of subvention or otherwise any other arrangements which may seem desirable with respect to any business or operations of or generally with respect to any such company or companies . |
| 20 | ( n ) To promote or form any other company for the purpose of acquiring the whole or any part of the business or property or undertaking or any of the liabilities of the Company , or of undertaking any business or operations which may appear likely to assist or benefit the Company or to enhance the value of any property or business of the Company , and to place or guarantee the placing of , underwrite , subscribe for , or otherwise acquire all or any part of the shares or securities of any such company as aforesaid . |
| 21 | Having reached the limits of the contractual arrangements with local purchasing consortia ( DHA 's ) there 's simply no more money from that quarter to pay for non-emergency treatment or operations . |
| 22 | Certainly , no-one devising a system of government for a late twentieth-century industrial democracy would give the right to alter legislation to a group of people whose only qualification is the fact that at some time in the dim and distant past a grateful monarch rewarded the loyalty , bravery , intrigue , obsequiousness or blackmail of an ancestor with the grant of a title and the profits of plunder . |
| 23 | Similar questions were asked about involvement in narcotics or whether they had any criminal record , or if they had any reason to suspect they could become vulnerable to coercion or blackmail . |
| 24 | Individual carpet designs , borders , Chlidema squares were all custom made in traditional woven Axminster or Wilton , the broadloom being woven at Elderslie and the narrow at Runcorn . |
| 25 | He 's a different player to Dean , more in the Murray Mexted mould : taller , a bit more athletic , but without the bulk that either I or Dean can supply . |
| 26 | Pearce has been told he may have to sell top players such as David Leworthy , the league 's leading scorer , or Dean Coney in a bid to balance the books . |
| 27 | As for Ndlove , I do n't see where he will fit in , it probably mean either Wallace or Dean moving to the reserves . |
| 28 | Down on the grass and on the bare earth under the chestnut tree , dozens of people now squatted at their ease among the sheep and their droppings , drinking from skin water-bottles and smaller stone ones of ale or whisky . |
| 29 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 30 | After the parade , along to the park where the speeches boomed from ancient public address systems to an audience more intent on its flasks of tea and sandwiches or , for the men , bottles of beer or whisky . |