Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | The mercantile agent must be in possession of the goods or documents of title ; and he must have that possession at the time he sells , pledges or otherwise disposes of the goods . |
| 3 | In this computerised version of the classroom favourite each opponent has the ability to plant mines , sweep for mines or even have submarines that dive . |
| 4 | Not providing money to pay debts or even to buy " essentials " . |
| 5 | [ The plaintiffs ] had no intention of creating any charge over book debts or merely making a series of loans . |
| 6 | Use only CFC-free aerosols or alternatively buy products such as roll-on stick deodorants instead . |
| 7 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 8 | His office , which works in fine arts , craft , film and video and photography , may proffer straight advice on projects or simply point applicants in the right direction for funding . |
| 9 | Whether it is the academics ' interests in the livings that come in the wake of a research career ; or industry 's wish to produce new drugs or insecticides ; or the state 's desire to develop new military armaments or better traffic flows or even to reduce truancy in schools ; these are motivations quite unconnected with the education of students in higher education . |
| 10 | Rather than try to change the reluctant-to-move employees ' attitudes or even find out why they reject the transfer , companies may accept the easy option and transfer other willing individuals . |
| 11 | It should be noted that an employee will be in breach of his duty of good faith owed to his employer while employed by him if he makes , copies or deliberately memorizes a list of his employer 's customers for use after leaving this employment . |
| 12 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 13 | Five cases or so remain , for which no explanation has been given . |
| 14 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 15 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 16 | Occasionally teachers were allowed to fit into school hours or overtime courses some algebra , Euclid , French , Latin and Irish . |
| 17 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 18 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 19 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 20 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 21 | Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish ! |
| 22 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 23 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 24 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 25 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 26 | Running 26.2 miles is further than the average person achieves in a lifetime and you 've done it in around four hours or less writes . |
| 27 | Wherever CT scans or the new MRI scans or even ultrasound scans are involved in the management of patients , the images can be transferred down an image link . |
| 28 | Unable to visualize plans or even to judge the success of a design from a scale model , Ceauşescu demanded larger and larger mock-ups . |
| 29 | Catch up with the latest movies and audio programmes or just sit back and read the papers . |
| 30 | If energy saving is applied rigorously in homes and industry and the power stations clean up their act by switching from coal to other fuels or otherwise cutting their carbon emissions , transport seems set to take over as the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in Western industrialized countries . |