Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] or " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 2 | If you wish either to let your property or require accommodation for long or short term , we have the market knowledge and professionalism to advise you . |
| 3 | As I picked it up to throw it aside a line of small print caught my eye : ‘ Ivory tower for long or short let . |
| 4 | Design : head torch with two bulbs for long or short light beams . |
| 5 | As long as the carrier continues to be liable for the delivery of the goods to a holder of the missing bill of lading , the indemnity has to run for long or indefinite periods of time . |
| 6 | You could n't keep bulls for long or the strain in your herd would have been weakened by in-breeding , so there was a regular turnover , and quite often farms would loan out their bulls around the Dales before selling them out of the area . |
| 7 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 8 | Seriously for sale For complete information contact : Tel : INT after 7pm or weekends . |
| 9 | That work should not be done before 7am or after 7pm or during school hours . |
| 10 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 11 | If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost . |
| 12 | How dare he ? she thought , after more or less flaunting that — that woman in front of me . |
| 13 | The college also has a course for physically or mentally handicapped students which is free to those registered disabled , Ribber Courses for double bed machines and another on panelled skirts and shadow pleats . |
| 14 | In order to apply the requirements of the [ draft ] FRS it is necessary to determine whether instruments issued at the same time should be accounted for individually or not . |
| 15 | But I 'll find the men I 'm looking for sooner or later . |
| 16 | Leonie , a machinist , said ‘ We 'd never survive for long without my money , rotten though it is ( averaging around 30 a week ) , for sooner or later one of the kids needs new shoes , or the iron busts , or there is a birthday — the 55 a week I get from Sam , when I get it , does n't begin to touch things like that . |
| 17 | on the tape okay , so if you 're still doing that in the next forty five minutes it will be just as above or whatever |
| 18 | What , is that for tonight or |
| 19 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 20 | Most of the fossils recovered are of wholly or partly aquatic amphibians , the sort that were easily preserved in the coal swamps that were characteristic of the Carboniferous non-marine environment . |
| 21 | If it is required to cytogenetically demonstrate the activity or otherwise of paternally or maternally derived X chromosomes in cells of fetal origin , the first requirement is to mark one of them so that it can be distinguished from the other one . |
| 22 | Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got . |
| 23 | But attitudes towards underground or informal work have been changing in developing countries too . |
| 24 | People over 50 who missed earlier opportunities will be able to apply for a ‘ Return to Learn ’ grant towards further or higher education . |
| 25 | Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold . |
| 26 | A succession of published polls typically produces a stream of more or less contradictory results . |
| 27 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 28 | A brown earth soil is aerobic , of more or less neutral pH , with a good mixture of mineral and organic matter , bearing deep-rooting plants and supporting a normal population of soil life , particularly earthworms . |
| 29 | Individual hands contained all kinds of more or less cursive elements , but the hands themselves cease to be worth classifying except by the dedicated palaeographer , pursuing studies or hypotheses in great detail . |
| 30 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |