Example sentences of "and [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may like to add the name of one or two referees to your c.v. , either to vouch for your general honesty and reliability or to confirm that you have the skills and experience you claim in the c.v . |
| 2 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 3 | It was concluded that the media had no business either relaying bad news about government and party policies and activities or suggesting that alternative measures might be better . |
| 4 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 5 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 6 | In addition , special X-rays may be required , e.g. barium meal or intravenous pyelogram ; and ultrasound or isotope scanning may be requested to aid diagnosis . |
| 7 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 8 | Have your tea , then you can either go up to the nursery and play or come in the kitchen with me and help me make a pie , whichever you like . ’ |
| 9 | Many show open jealousy and tease or irritate the baby . |
| 10 | To find out more , telephone 01– and ask for a copy of our 1989 Report and Accounts or send the coupon below : |
| 11 | The gas is collected and can be burned directly for domestic heating and cooking or used to produce electricity in a generator ( see figure 5.21 ) . |
| 12 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 13 | Unfortunately they are frequently little more than begging letters for money , tombola prizes and jumble or grumbles about late dinner money and parking too near the school entrances . |
| 14 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 15 | She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts . |
| 16 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 17 | When Mum can relax in a deck chair and the children can enjoy making sand pipes and castles or having a donkey ride . |
| 18 | Wages fell rapidly and the unions , despite their involvement in many long and protracted disputes were unable to staunch the outward flow of members and funds or to stave off the savage monetary wage cuts which occurred . |
| 19 | Having obtained your two pieces of wood , place them one on top of the other , ensuring that they are exactly square , and tape or clamp them securely together . |
| 20 | The cubes can be added to soups and sauces or thawed for use in puddings and cakes . |
| 21 | On moonlight nights , we , the women , used to sit there and talk or sing and prepare and eat Pan ( betel leaf ) . |
| 22 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 23 | Nepalese sources and exiled Bhutanese opposition groups accused the Bhutan government of forcing ethnic Nepalese to accept Bhutanese culture and religion or leave the country [ see p. 38534 ] . |
| 24 | Organisations may take on the letting of the employee 's property together with its insurance and maintenance or engage a managing agent or specialist relocation firm to do it . |
| 25 | Add to this the fact that many people no longer have the time to bake their own bread and cakes or grow their own vegetables and you will see how the situation has changed even in the years since the end of the war . |
| 26 | Fully escorted coach travel from London Kings Cross to your hotel in The Hague ( cross channel P&O Ferries — Dover-Calais ) and return or Travel by air from your chosen local airport direct to Amsterdam Schiphol airport with onward travel ( by rail or coach ) to The Hague . |
| 27 | Even if it were possible to model accurately the supply and demand responses to changes in taxes and transfer or benefit provisions of all kinds , it would remain a GNP or market calculation . |
| 28 | If evil stalks abroad they will stand and fight it , not turn and run or give in and live with it . |
| 29 | I did n't know what to say , whether to say anything , whether to grab my stuff and run or lie here all day and go to sleep . |
| 30 | ‘ They also have a lot of testosterone to discharge , ’ she remarks , ‘ always having to play cowboys and Indians or drive fast cars ! ’ |