Example sentences of "or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , better still , maybe we should question the present shibboleth that a bath or a shower a day is necessary for hygiene . |
| 2 | She did n't care whether it was a bath or a shower just as long as there was lots of hot water and soap . |
| 3 | Will you need more washbasins or a shower , and can these be easily installed ? |
| 4 | Ask residents whether they prefer a strip wash , a bath or a shower . |
| 5 | All bathroom light switches should be the ceiling-mounted , pullcord kind — as should double-pole switches fitted to control an electric shower or a shower pump . |
| 6 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 7 | It 'll be two rooms and a bath or a shower . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , officers are in a position of sometimes telling a prisoner at the end of a week , that you ca n't have a bath or a shower and there is no change of clean underwear . |
| 9 | Play rolling games : if you have n't got a ball , an orange or a roll of tape will do . |
| 10 | Could you give me an example of how you went about making a a bread scone or a roll or what had to be done ? |
| 11 | Rather than treating language as a ‘ learning topic ’ which can be compartmentalised and taught in a formal setting such as a classroom or a clinic , an increasing number of therapists and teachers are beginning to explore ways of dealing with language as an integral part of the communicative process which surrounds any social activity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is better to include a specific provision in the standard terms to prevent a party proving a variation of the standard terms , or a collateral contract , rather than relying on the parol evidence rule . |
| 14 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 15 | It would seem unreasonable to protect your premises with a lion or a cobra , but not , perhaps , with a fierce dog . |
| 16 | The fork-lift truck was not fitted with either wing mirrors or a speedometer . |
| 17 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 18 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 19 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 20 | Check whether full rent or a retainer is required during vacations . |
| 21 | Decide if you are going to have any special sales offers or promotions ( eg selling last season 's Christmas cards at a reduced price , or a promotion on wrapping paper — 10p a sheet or six sheets for 50p ) . |
| 22 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 23 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 24 | If there is no room to add any extra counter space try importing a free-standing butcher-block worktop or a trolley or cart . |
| 25 | If you have any doubts about your ability to fix a burst pipe , a storm-damaged roof , or a boiler that does on the blink , it may be worth signing up for Homercare , the new 24-hour emergency repair and assistance service from Europ Assistance . |
| 26 | Or a poem . |
| 27 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 28 | To read Gregory of Tours ' History of the Franks or Bede 's of the English people , or a poem like Beowulf , is to experience a world in which the new and the traditional , in culture and in religion , in law and institutions , are inextricable . |
| 29 | I 'm inclined to think that every dominant feeling in a story or a poem affects what is seen and needs to find its correspondences in events and objects outside , which in their turn make the feeling real to the reader . |
| 30 | No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked , " Where ? " — except in a song or a poem — must be silenced . |