Example sentences of "or [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Your knowledge of organisations can always be improved by visits to see particular processes or operations in action . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Occupations , ethnic and religious groups , and most importantly styles of life are accorded differing degrees of prestige or esteem by members of society . |
| 8 | In some families , the question of the child 's health becomes entangled with other problems — a tense relationship between husband and wife , for example , or friction with grandparents or other relatives . |
| 9 | Such a difference in conceptions of gender and gender roles has strong implications for the event of peace or friction in the play of daily life , and can not be too much emphasized . |
| 10 | A ‘ Module Name ’ cache — allowing access to the ‘ General ’ cache for module names or visibility of all the module names known to the LIFESPAN database . |
| 11 | Some swelling is normal in later pregnancy — in fact the majority of women with healthy pregnancies have a certain amount of swelling — so your midwife or doctor will not be concerned at slightly puffy hands , face or ankles near the end of pregnancy . |
| 12 | Any decision taken by the individual , head or subcommittee with delegated authority is binding on the whole governing body . |
| 13 | The attendance of a member at a meeting of a committee or subcommittee of the local authority is regarded as attendance at a meeting of the authority , but attendance at a meeting of a joint committee , joint board or other body will only count as attendance at a meeting of the authority when any functions of the local authority have been transferred or delegated to those bodies . |
| 14 | Two very distinct varieties are the so-called ‘ melanistic mutant ’ , ( 6 ) dark in both sexes ( cock deep blue and green , hen very dark brown ) , and the flavistic Bohemian pheasant ( 5 ) buff or cream-coloured with blackish markings and dark head . |
| 15 | The current benefit for a single mother with one child is £56-a-week plus housing benefit , or £67.80 with two children under 11 . |
| 16 | 225g/8oz plain dessert chocolate , broken into pieces 3 × 15ml/tbsp rum or liqueur of your choice 225g/8oz unsalted butter 25g/1oz caster sugar 2 eggs , separated 150g/5oz blanched almonds , finely chopped 12 petit beurre biscuits , cut cleanly into halves icing sugar for dredging ( optional ) cream to serve ( optional ) |
| 17 | The difficulty arises because , as described in previous chapters , it is convenient to use f and g , or transformations of them , as coordinates in the interaction region . |
| 18 | It is possible that there was a connection between the idea of bird epiphanies and the sacred tree cult ; birds descending from the heavens as messengers or transformations of deities were seen to alight in trees , which conferred sanctity on the trees as the act suggested that the gods themselves had chosen the trees as their shrines . |
| 19 | Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) . |
| 20 | Pure tone audiometry was carried out by an audiological technician or scientist under sound proof conditions unless , according to age , free field audiometric assessment was required . |
| 21 | Many of Dalton 's circles had been used in the past in alchemy or pharmacy with one or more meanings , very different from that of one atom of a chemical element which Dalton meant them to represent . |
| 22 | Under the theme ‘ Marginalisation or contacts across frontiers — the role of independent media ’ , participants passed a resolution to ask the Romanian government to issue provisional licences to community radio stations . |
| 23 | Many of our clients were from sections of society which had few previous dealings or contacts with the police . |
| 24 | ‘ Just keeping a general eye on you , trying to find out if you had any friends or contacts in Venice . ’ |
| 25 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 26 | Similarly , I have not specified the Englishness or whiteness of people in this book , nor the blackness of others . |
| 27 | It left him sharply aware of the dichotomy Jamaica represents : between travel-folder romanticism and pleasure beaches and a watchfulness peculiar to the tropics , ‘ a disquiet that is potent and nameless ’ ; between colonial elegance and the dusky faces lurking inside dark doorways , the sudden low laugh or flash of teeth . |
| 28 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 29 | The other , a maid or tweeny in No 17 , had thin , wispy dark hair , and a white apron . |
| 30 | However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all . |