Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now a need for a fresh use of the imagination , a new conjecture or hypothesis or guess . |
| 2 | Have you a stuffed bird or squirrel or stoat in a glass case ? |
| 3 | Where appropriate the court can expressly prohibit examination or assessment or state that it shall not take place unless the court directs otherwise ( s38(7) ) . |
| 4 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
| 5 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 6 | Section 1(8) prohibits insiders from communicating unpublished price sensitive information to any other person ( ie not only individuals ) , if the insider knows or has reasonable cause to believe , that that person or some other person would make use of the information to deal , or counsel or procure some other person to deal on a recognized exchange in those securities to which the communicated information relates . |
| 7 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 8 | By performing a study of the dies and establishing a chain or chains or die links , one can arrange a whole coinage into an objective sequence . |
| 9 | " You get up so early and when you re not in chapel , you 're scrubbing or polishing or digging in the garden . " |
| 10 | This prospectus contains information on full-time undergraduate courses which lead to a degree , diploma or certificate or fulfil in part the requirements of a professional body . |
| 11 | But those least likely to have spent time in a hospital or hospice or to die in one were those who had lived in a nursing home for a year or more . |
| 12 | Call into the shop today and find out for yourself , or Telephone : 061 and speak to NIKKI OR PHILL or write to : FOREST AVIATION , FREEPOST , NORTH PARADE , NORRIS ROAD , SALE , M BT. ( no stamp needed ) |
| 13 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 14 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 15 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 16 | To think intellectually about pirates would be to categorise : ‘ Ah yes ! ’ one might say , ‘ Drama about pirates could be about ships at sea or fighting or finding treasure or drinking rum , etc . ’ |
| 17 | Where there is a pavement or foot path used , do not walk next to the curb with your back from the traffic , look both ways before you step into the road where there is no foot path , walk on the right hand side of the road , it is safer to walk on the side facing on coming traffic , keep as close as possible to the side of the road , take care at right hand bends , keep one behind if that is possible , particularly line heavy traffic on flurry , do not allow children under age five at least out alone on the road , go with them , walk between them and the traffic and always keep tight hold of their hands , if you ca n't do this then use reigns as security , secure them firmly into the pushchair , do not let them run into the road , always wear or carry something bright or light or reflected within the dark of light , this is especially important , that all uses it it 's just the rules I suppose |
| 18 | Again , there is the fact that a variety of signs which , whether or not they suggest weapons , huts or traps or remain enigmatic , can only be interpreted as symbolic in intent . |
| 19 | If an expert were employed to certify , make a valuation or appraisal or settle compensation as between opposing interests , this did not , of itself , put him in the position of an arbitrator . |
| 20 | Now under the lowest layer of the sheaves were there any stones or branches or briars ever laid underneath ? |
| 21 | The principle then of Parliamentary sovereignty may , looked at from its positive side , be thus described : Any Act of Parliament , or any part of an Act of Parliament , which makes a new law , or repeals or modifies an existing law , will be obeyed by the courts . |
| 22 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 23 | Extraordinary embassies of an essentially ceremonial kind , so frequent in the past , involving the sending of a great aristocrat on a mission of congratulation or condolence or to represent his sovereign at a coronation ceremony , were now becoming rare . |
| 24 | It does nothing to increase prospects for employment , training or investment or to improve public services . |
| 25 | Buying , selling , subscribing for or underwriting investments or offering or agreeing to do so , either as principal or as an agent |
| 26 | Making , or offering or agreeing to make |
| 27 | Giving , or offering or agreeing to give to persons in their capacity as investors or potential investors advice on the merits of their purchasing , selling , subscribing for or underwriting an investment , or exercising any right conferred by an investment to acquire , dispose of , underwrite or convert an investment . |
| 28 | Managing , or offering or agreeing to manage , assets , belonging to another person if |
| 29 | It shall further be unlawful for any man to stare at or make googoo eyes at , or in any other manner look at or make remarks to or concerning , or cough or whistle at , or do any other act to attract the attention of any woman upon or travelling along any of the sidewalks , streets , Public ways of the city of Abilene with an intent or in a manner calculated to annoy such women . |
| 30 | In the autumn she could return to Vancouver and begin doing locums — substituting for doctors going on holidays or trips or to take courses — until the day she had repaid her loans and could begin to look at having her own practice . |