Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part-timers or job-sharers are increasing but still a rarity in the middle or higher levels of management . |
| 2 | He was not interested in politics or institutions or movements . |
| 3 | Many of our most difficult cases are those where buildings belong not to private owners but to institutions or government organizations . |
| 4 | It is doubtful however that many librarians outside language teaching institutions or areas with serious literacy problems will find the time or the need to consult them . |
| 5 | Systematic referral to other institutions or agencies which could help adults get the appropriate qualifications or advise them on what to do next might also encourage such enquirers . |
| 6 | This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives . |
| 7 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday 's events merely dramatised the fact that there can now be no certainty about the permanence of individuals , institutions or ideologies in present-day East Germany — not to mention other chunks of Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Beginning with the family into which an individual was born , he or she contracted a series of group memberships in quasi-familial institutions or groups , such as school , college or company . |
| 10 | This standardisation work is , of necessity , international , although individual standards are developed by individual institutions or groups . |
| 11 | Informed opinion considered that care was best provided in hospitals for the mentally ill ( the old lunatic asylums ) and institutions or colonies for the subnormal . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most novel aspect of this proposal is its recognition of a category of destabilisation rights , to be enforced by ambitious forms of injunctive relief , which would afford an opportunity for individuals and interests to challenge and disrupt established institutions or forms of social practice which had achieved immunity from conventional legal and political measures of control . |
| 13 | In some cases responsibility was entrusted to the municipal boroughs or the existing county institutions or parishes . |
| 14 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 15 | Acceptance of the offer will constitute a disposal for capital gains tax purposes but this will not concern tax exempt institutions or funds ( eg pension funds ) . |
| 16 | In particular any tampering with traditional religious institutions or observances , of the kind so common among enlightened rulers and ministers , was likely to generate deep resentment . |
| 17 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 18 | Where a course takes place is important not only in terms of regulations and resources ( or the absence of them ) , but in the more subtle aspects of the setting : the traditions , norms , ethos , style and habits of particular departments , institutions or sectors . |
| 19 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 20 | In such a manner individuals , like institutions or sovereigns , are fortified in their passage through time by jubilees symbolized by precious substances held in progressively higher esteem . |
| 21 | But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent . |
| 22 | Most people live where they do because it contains factories , farms and offices , or perhaps transport facilities , educational institutions or research laboratories , which draw income into the area . |
| 23 | In S6 it is also often possible to accommodate beginners or people mastering specialist skills . |
| 24 | So if you 've been under pressure lately , try Seven Seas Vitamin B complex , which cost £2.99 for 60 capsules or Vitalert For Stress with B-vitamins , £2.89/30 . |
| 25 | Keep personal items , such as photos or ornaments or books , in sight . |
| 26 | Particularly striking exemplars are the penannular neck ornaments or torcs , the hoops of which were hollow or more often formed of twisted rods or finer wires , having loop terminals decorated by lost-wax casting combined with surface tooling ( fig. 19 ) . |
| 27 | As we have seen in the previous chapter , the terms semiotics or semiology are now usually used for the general theory of signs , which in its European structuralist versions has played an enormously important role in modern literary theory . |
| 28 | Do you know , I bet that 's where half the burglaries or crimes are hatched ? |
| 29 | If there was water to spare I would smarten up and shave , regardless of where I was , and I might cook myself a treat , kippers or pilchards . |
| 30 | Fish meals • Prawn or salmon or tuna sandwich , fresh fruit , yogurt or skimmed milk ; • sardines or pilchards on toast with tomatoes , skimmed milk ; • kippers or mackerel , bread , yogurt , fruit ; • haddock , peas , potatoes , skimmed milk ; • cod , broccoli , grated cheese , tomatoes ; • prawn curry with peas and rice , skimmed milk ; • fish fingers , baked beans or peas , potatoes , grated cheese . |