Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | We would usually advise mucosectomy for dysplasia or coexisting colorectal cancer , however , as we do in polyposis . |
| 3 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 4 | Following Griffiths , the Korner Report ( 1984 ) recommended that district budgets should be linked to specialties such as X-rays or operating theatres . |
| 5 | It is a security device for banking or shopping by telephone . |
| 6 | You went to Suffolk by the A12 through Chelmsford or took the country route . |
| 7 | Gary would often go missing for hours or stay out overnight . |
| 8 | In it Timmy would crawl for hours or pull himself up and stand precariously balancing , his napkin invariably falling about his knees . |
| 9 | But the drudgery of standing in queues for hours or doing housework is awful . |
| 10 | For example : C for card or cracker , S for saviour or stocking and so on . |
| 11 | It is also subject to the powers of the Secretary of State to make provision by regulations as to obligations of a company under the Act to make documents available for inspection or to provide copies of them . |
| 12 | The ever broadening range of involvement by government departments makes it difficult to trace the evolution of policy through Whitehall or to interpret decision making in development planning , and researchers are presented with a bewildering complexity of sources which hinders efficient and economic research . |
| 13 | The paper of My ABC is of a very high quality , suitable for crayon or felt tip pen . |
| 14 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 15 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 16 | Alterations to the environment required for safety and access to buildings and classroom by pupils with physical handicaps , especially if they are in wheelchairs , may be more easily foreseen , and their need for ramps or lifts instead of stairs , adaptations to toilet facilities may be readily recognised as essential . |
| 17 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 18 | Growth that overhangs a pavement , footpath or anywhere to which the public have access renders you liable for damage or hurt to passers by . |
| 19 | Puerto Maldonaldo , ‘ the biological capital of the world ’ , was a rapidly growing town boosted by thousands of settlers from the Andes seeking fine gold dust in the rivers , to work as loggers or to become slash-and-burn farmers . |
| 20 | Well I 'm sick of it cos you see every year we get little kids coming round to our houses asking for trick or treat |
| 21 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 22 | So whether your students are studying for exams or brushing up their English for professional reasons , this dictionary will deliver the answers — often before the question has even been asked ! |
| 23 | It was quite spontaneous , for the Germans instigated nothing although they would sometimes co-operate in an elementary way by allowing wood for goalposts or permitting the construction of a theatre . |
| 24 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 25 | The other element related to control of the mind where through meditation or chanting the practitioner seeks to free his soul from the bondage of his mind and body and to prepare himself for spiritual enlightenment or true self-realisation — that he is in fact part of the ‘ Impersonal Absolute ’ ( Brahman ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We are about to really start approaching businesses in the Darlington area to ask for money or help in kind , ’ said Robin . |
| 27 | I 'm not asking for money or taking anything from you . |
| 28 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 29 | Tom Drake or Anne Galloway of the Assessment Department will be happy to discuss any aspect of the college 's assumption of responsibility for assessment or to give information on the systems which other centres are adopting . |
| 30 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |