Example sentences of "[adv] or [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're perhaps little er more about the condition of the granules of a powder used for compressing into tablets , and the coating , how shall we coat it so that it washed away at once , dissolved slowly or anything like that . |
| 2 | Little or nothing beyond the holding of a market distinguished the smallest towns from mere villages , for no small number contained not more than two or three hundred inhabitants . |
| 3 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 4 | In the statement by Her Majesty 's Opposition , the Secretary of State heard a continuation of the velvet glove policy , which means , do little or nothing against the terrorist . |
| 5 | The subject also has another unusual strength : at school a great amount of effort is put into teaching us to read , but little or none into teaching us to see , still less to look . |
| 6 | with the houses on or something like that yeah |
| 7 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 8 | I mean what a what I think I 'll probably do is if we can get like erm something that 's obviously our crowd and then either putting , say , Stella back on or something like that |
| 9 | Yeah well if I had like a little dictaphone on or something like that |
| 10 | Were there any parts of er of the complex that were out of bounds sort of top secret work going on or anything like that ? |
| 11 | god of war of Norway or somewhere or something like that , or it is sort of thunder |
| 12 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 13 | Right , yeah you 're stuck to it are n't you and if you move away from it , where are you , if you got ta go back to it , you might have done this for t for today , do n't worry but you know , but it 's not , we 're not gon na mark you down or anything like that , the danger of is what ? |
| 14 | Yeah but none of the them would sit down or anything like that so you know |
| 15 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 16 | Yes and er we used to have about two hundred three hundred birds on the for the shooting and then perhaps about a hundred and fifty or so or something like that on the second . |
| 17 | So or anything like that . |
| 18 | it 's erm Steve 's mother 's birthday and Gavin 's , they 've got to get him up about midday , one o'clock or something up the school tomorrow she said I have n't even packed yet . |
| 19 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 20 | But are n't they going from seven o'clock nine o'clock or something like that ? |
| 21 | get me in there for about one o'clock or something like that you know |
| 22 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 23 | We were n't at school together or anything like that . ’ |
| 24 | you know and she , you know you do n't have to pay much this sort of heating 's in or something like that so she 's probably got loads of spare money like you , which is good because she 's on her own and it gives her more , you know |
| 25 | summer house , yeah , yeah , and he 's got a patio outside , did n't , it 's a only a patio it 's nothing , it 's not covered in or anything but there 's steps up to it and that and , and that 's it , he 's got nothing in his garden , it 's lawn and |
| 26 | a big jar with pennies in or anything like that ? |
| 27 | Yeah , but er there 's no money kept in or anything like that |
| 28 | but fifty per cent of the people who said they were coming did n't turn up and most of them did n't phone in or anything like that which was a little bit of an upset for the host erm and consequently there was a bit put in |
| 29 | and I once went in to collect some and erm , I think it was Mrs said oh good have you come to take them away or something like that cos there was , there were n't many left in the school so I |
| 30 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |