Example sentences of "the [noun pl] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gastric mucosal homogenates were prepared as described earlier , serum samples were collected , and the activities or the concentrations of antioxidants were measured by the methods described next . |
| 2 | Of course , this alone did n't meet the cost of the hats or the debt owing , but she said if we could find a buyer for such as this it would , in a way , alleviate some of the debt … ’ |
| 3 | They are often not the experts or the specialists . |
| 4 | Never mind the opinions or the colour or the creed of the marchers , they have no God-given right to disrupt the life of a city . |
| 5 | It 's anybody 's guess whether it was the cans or the milk he washed out . |
| 6 | He put his reading glasses on and looked more closely at it ; there were , he knew , dozens of different kinds of wood-lice , all classified , all named , distinguished by minute anatomical refinements , small but significant differences in the antennae or the genitalia . |
| 7 | For example , in the celebrated Royal Mail Steam Packet case ( R v Kylsant and Morland ( 1931 ) 75 Acct LR 62 ) it was argued in court that if the accounts or the audit reports had shown the enterprise 's true financial position , it would have encouraged competitors to engage in predatory pricing so as to drive the company out of business . |
| 8 | What was not understood was that when you sweep away a feudal society , you do not overnight change the institutions or the casts of thought that have been built up over centuries . |
| 9 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 10 | Water of Leith Clean-up No replies have been received from the Scouts or the Guides . |
| 11 | Water of Leith Clean-up No replies have been received from the Scouts or the Guides . |
| 12 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 13 | The auditor is appointed at the Annual General Meeting of the PLC ( not by the shareholders or the directors or the officers ) . |
| 14 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 15 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 16 | Reciprocally , such families may receive financial remittances from their migrating members once they have established themselves , and those left behind may derive prestige in their local community from the successes of their sons in the cities or the new countries . |
| 17 | For most , however , the road from Andean mining towns like Potosi or Llallagua runs to the informal economy — as street traders in the cities or the coca farms and drug factories of Chapare . |
| 18 | M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences . |
| 19 | Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , in the time period available , there was considerable shortfall due either to delays in the courts or the file having been impossible to trace for some reason . |
| 21 | Experience suggests that the fear that discovery of faults in investigations would result in adverse criticism from the courts or the media , and in public clamour for scapegoats , causes considerable difficulty . |
| 22 | These cases show that the courts in the early 19th century were willing to hold that the Inns , as private voluntary societies , had a power to refuse entry to would-be members which was not subject to the jurisdiction of the courts or the visitors , even though barristers of the Inns possessed certain monopoly rights in the courts . |
| 23 | The answer to this decisive question resides not in a logic which compels , for example , all questions of law always to be for the courts or the tribunal . |
| 24 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 25 | By contrast , the French were far keener on President Reagan than the Germans or the British . |
| 26 | Any messages are relayed through the Germans or the Italians . |
| 27 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 28 | Is it the blanks or the punched holes that determine the floats ? |
| 29 | You like the noise and the bustle of the city , you would n't want to be stuck out here , with nothing but trees and flowers to look at , and no one to talk to but the birds or a passing rabbit ! ’ |
| 30 | either the contestants or the er dictionary judges . |