Example sentences of "or [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 2 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 3 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 4 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 5 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 6 | Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take . |
| 7 | In theory the first step in the procedure is a formal application for payment of arrears by either the landlord or someone acting as an agent . |
| 8 | ‘ That — or someone tampering with the sample . ’ |
| 9 | I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out . |
| 10 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 11 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 12 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 13 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 14 | Well we thought it was either a rent man or somebody collecting for the council . |
| 15 | And there was a shadow , something or somebody moving against the eastern window . |
| 16 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |
| 18 | Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part . |
| 19 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 20 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 21 | They would prefer the vigour of language which either asserted the fact of ‘ real presence ’ in words which clothed the mode of his coming with an unmistakable reality , or which spoke of a ‘ real absence ’ in order to preserve the purity of Christ ‘ s coming to the heart of the believer in faith . |
| 22 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 23 | However , it is not for me or you to presume upon the gentleman 's intentions . |
| 24 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 25 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
| 26 | You either buy a ticket or you come with a bottle . |
| 27 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 28 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
| 29 | You either stamp Lucas up his right buttock or you go over the double white lines , or you brake and somebody behind might be too close behind you . |
| 30 | It is hard to relinquish status and income , both of which are like to fall if you take a step down or sideways or you stop on the career ladder . |