Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 2 | ( v ) paid off debts or fines or loans incurred by the addict in your life . |
| 3 | This kind of mutual formulation of the right amount of information for communication to take place is very common in conversation , particularly where times or places or objects need to be specified . |
| 4 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 5 | Buying , selling , subscribing for or underwriting investments or offering or agreeing to do so , either as principal or as an agent |
| 6 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 7 | If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual . |
| 8 | In the interest of readers who are not professional demographers , statisticians or physicians or who are not concerned with minutiae of the research , an effort was made in writing the report to avoid too detailed explanations , statistical tabulations , and the extensive use of the lingo of related fields or sciences . |
| 9 | To Sigouri was perhaps thirty miles and , although the rain kept away , it was dark and treacherous underfoot and they hardly spoke , men-at-arms or servants or principals , as they guided fresh horses across the grey soil of the Messaoria , splashing over burgeoning rivers ; imperceptible to silent villages , churches and monasteries except by a thud of hooves and the swimming spawn of their brands . |
| 10 | Here the teacher needs the ability to call on different levels of presentation — graded illustrations or examples or maybe graded presentations from pictures through to other more abstract notations . |
| 11 | Elements of these two types contract any of four " horizontal " relations , belonging to the same level , with other entities or properties or both , as will be described immediately below ( it is probable that exactly one of these relations is specifically linguistic rather than being a relation implied by human mental activities in general ) . |
| 12 | I should like to know whether the Opposition welcome the reduction of that £0.5 billion burden on British employers or taxpayers or whether they regret it and I am happy to give way now to the hon. Member for Sedgefield if he will answer that question . |
| 13 | The best way to do it is to get some get some coins or pebbles or something , and play , yourself |
| 14 | The former provides accommodation for breeding pairs or trios or up to five adult mice while the latter is used for up to 25 stock mice depending on their size . |
| 15 | And their sons or daughters or whatever still trade with us . |
| 16 | it 's , it 's the shock comes up the legs , if it does n't break the ankles or feet or these it can break the bottom of the bone , a piece here , or it can travel up and break the base of the skull . |
| 17 | town , they , they would have a minimal allowance of vegetables or meat or whatever to sell , it was the women that did the bartering , it was the women that actually got enough money to feed the family and , and the men were really quite an |
| 18 | In exercising his discretion , he is entitled to take into account any consideration of public policy which bears on the issue — and the public policy in favour of free speech is important in deciding whether to launch official secrets or contempt or obscenity prosecutions . |
| 19 | Her antiseptic presence transformed Mr Sunderland 's office into a place where children were condemned not to the cane or detention but to threadworms or impetigo or a terrible weakness of the chest that could only be treated in some distant sanatorium . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , most of the streets which have been sectioned were of substantial construction , in some of the wetter places being provided with a substructure of timber piles or a corduroy ; otherwise local material such as Kentish rag , crushed flints or chalk or gravel were used . |
| 21 | there is as much stability in aesthetic judgements as in ethical or political or philosophical or scientific ; [ and ] the reputations of poets and artists are not less but more assured than those of biologists or statesmen or metaphysicians . |
| 22 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
| 23 | ‘ Like you , I hope our journey wo n't take long , but , however long it takes — hours or days or weeks — we 're going to cover every centimetre of this island until we find them ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 25 | He believes that the jets may originate from ‘ dikes ’ — a geological term for tilted strata or layers or others particularly dusty areas which might stick up from the surrounding surface . |
| 26 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |
| 27 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 28 | Erm , meetings or classes or anything like that ? |
| 29 | By ions or ozone or iodine , |
| 30 | The best edging for herbs or paths or as a billowing blue cloud beneath roses is Nepeta ‘ Six Hills Giant ’ , a misty paradise for bees and cats that grows 60cm tall and has small fine grey leaves . |