Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , certain of our major retailers ( e.g. Marks and Spencer ) are commonly thought of as models of efficiency , and their ‘ own brands ’ command widespread respect — the typical consumer does not think twice about which factory or by whom they are made . |
| 2 | No , there had n't been anything odd about the previous Saturday , either about her husband or about her own behaviour . |
| 3 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 4 | Many left bequests to educational establishments ‘ to the maintenance of Christ 's holy gospel ’ ; others gave financial support , either during their lifetimes or through their wills , for the endowment of lectureships or the payment of stipends to preachers . |
| 5 | That this House believes that the death penalty for murder no longer accords with the needs or the true interests of a civilised society , and calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to introduce forthwith legislation for its abolition or for its suspension for an experimental period . |
| 6 | If you do n't like it , the cost is too high for its usefulness or for any other reason whatsoever , you need only scrub the disk clean by reformatting and what have you lost ? |
| 7 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 8 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 9 | Nor do we any longer allow children to become little work-horses for their fathers or for any other man . |
| 10 | With no economic future , Bosnian Serbs and Croats may leave for their motherlands or for abroad in greater numbers than at present . |
| 11 | Diplomatic staff such as herself depended heavily on goods brought in specially by their embassies for their use or on block orders from firms which existed to supply the needs of expatriates . |
| 12 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 13 | I am only really happy when working in front of my subject or from careful drawings made in front of the subject . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't keep a notebook , but I write things on the back of my chequebook or on my wrist — like ‘ fishy breath ’ . ’ |
| 15 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 16 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 17 | Critics of the dual state thesis argue that in practice public expenditures can be classified according to their function only through a post hoc evaluation of their consequences or by knowing which organizations implemented the programmes ( which would make the whole schema tautologous ) . |
| 18 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 19 | Applicants who are uncertain as to the validity of their qualifications or of their present course of study , or who wish further information on any aspect of their application , are advised to write at the earliest opportunity to the Associate Dean for Admissions , Faculty of Arts Office , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX . |
| 20 | In Aries Tanker Corpn v Total Transport Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 WLR 185 the House of Lords considered the effect of Art III 6 of the Hague-Visby rules which govern the carriage of goods by sea and provide that " the carrier and the ship shall … be discharged from all liability whatsoever in respect of the goods , unless suit is brought within one year of their delivery or of the date when they should have been delivered " . |
| 21 | Those in the 20 years or more category remained unaware of their tariff or of any possible release date . |
| 22 | That they are empty other than at times when children are out of their classrooms or outside the school premises is a constant reminder that primary-school teachers do not have time in the working day to do other than teach . |
| 23 | Indeed , some stakeholders may take action to prevent a rational analysis of their stance or at least any debate over it . |
| 24 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 25 | For six months they received no letters , cards or phone calls from other members of their family or from friends . |
| 26 | These were both embassies with a large symbolic and ceremonial element : envoys of this kind were often given presents whose significance was also purely symbolic and which bore no relationship to the length of their stay or to the importance of the issues with which they were concerned . |
| 27 | These can be manpower modelling systems which are concerned with the number and type of people at different levels in the organisation or at different stages of their careers or with some other manpower dimension . |
| 28 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 29 | To take a simple instance : in the heyday of the Enlightenment , Homeric poetry would have been treated primarily like its Virgilian equivalent — as a work of a certain kind ( epic ) , embodying given characteristics of its genre or of poetry as a whole . |
| 30 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |