Example sentences of "or [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many of our clients were from sections of society which had few previous dealings or contacts with the police . |
| 12 | ‘ Just keeping a general eye on you , trying to find out if you had any friends or contacts in Venice . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 15 | 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 . |
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| 18 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 19 | How you are going to respond to excuses or requests for time extensions or Part payments . |
| 20 | Offers of help or requests for more information should be sent to . |
| 21 | The builder also runs the risk of facing contra-charges or requests for daywork payments for standing time , when materials or plant are not available . |
| 22 | Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge . |
| 23 | In most circumstances internal KPMG referrals or requests for limited assistance from other offices , such as an introduction to an existing client or provision of non proprietary knowledge gained from a previous assignment , should not result in a fee being paid by the originating office to the receiving office . |
| 24 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 25 | It typically presents the graphic designer with the formidable task of squeezing quarts into pint pots : a lengthy , formal statement that ca n't be edited down ; legally required fine-print detail and tables of crucial figures that may or may not be felicitously depicted as graphs , pie-charts or bar-charts of one sort or another . |
| 26 | There would then have been no galaxies , stars , or planets on which human life could have developed . |
| 27 | On another side it was an assault upon the corruption of the highest truths ; against turning love of the Bible into bibliolatry , or creeds into scholastic definitions , or the sacrament into magic , or Popes and priests and bishops into a bureaucracy or a rigidity where structure becomes the end instead of the means ; or turning the Church into a social club . |
| 28 | By ‘ political force ’ on the other hand I shall mean specifically political parties and movements , or tendencies within these , with explicitly shared objectives . |
| 29 | From full board at a centre , at local guesthouses or farmhouses to self-catering . |
| 30 | A demand for undamaged fruit or vegetables for freezing has led to excessive ‘ cosmetic spraying ’ . |