Example sentences of "one [noun sg] or another " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cup of tea could make the difference between a boxer fighting in one division or another . |
| 2 | Although there is no overall meaning , everything can be explained on one measure or another . |
| 3 | Cultural and ethnic essentialism , of one variety or another , disfigured much of the debate . |
| 4 | One of the results is that synods have become the happy hunting ground of activists of one kind or another , and thus have become removed from the concerns of the ordinary man or woman in the pews . |
| 5 | According to UNEP 's figures , desertification is taking as much land out of agricultural use as exploiters of one kind or another are clearing in the rainforests : |
| 6 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 7 | Not all of the recipients of honours were backbenchers , and over the following years journalists , industrialists and bankers sympathetic to the cause were handed decorations of one kind or another . |
| 8 | This is still only about one eighth of the number of people required to fill public appointments of one kind or another . |
| 9 | One of the little pleasures of life in Downing Street is the opportunity it affords to dish out baubles of one kind or another . |
| 10 | Elections of one kind or another are taking place three years out of four : parish , borough , county , European . |
| 11 | In the Cup , so much is down to luck of one kind or another and one flash of individual brillance can settle it . |
| 12 | A filling knife : Lots of simple repair jobs around the house involve the use of filler of one kind or another — patching cracks in plasterwork , filling holes and defects in wood , replacing old putty in window frames and so on . |
| 13 | I 've been in research of one kind or another all our married life . |
| 14 | Publication of an internal inquiry was also suppressed by the government ; one board member of the Atomic Energy Authority , which ran Windscale , had warned that it would ‘ inevitably provide ammunition for all those who had doubts of one kind or another about the development and the future of nuclear power ’ . |
| 15 | She obviously knows you are not keen , which is why she uses blandishments of one kind or another to keep you by her side . |
| 16 | The most convenient way to study flows of this sort is to look at old examples which have been brought up above sea level by earth movements of one kind or another , and which have been subsequently cut through by erosion and exposed in clean , dry cliff sections . |
| 17 | It is generally accepted that during the period of the First Crusade knights began to wear distinguishing marks of one kind or another . |
| 18 | Additionally , there would be various piles of books taken off the shelves and marked for action of one kind or another . |
| 19 | So far as the type of crime committed is concerned throughout this century the great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another . |
| 20 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 21 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 22 | Does the activity require co-operative group work of one kind or another ? |
| 23 | Many of these patients will be offered further help of one kind or another . |
| 24 | If local services can promise relief of one kind or another , you may be able to undertake the care , make a better job of it and still save local services some money . |
| 25 | Initiation ceremonies of one kind or another mark the end of childhood and the acceptance of the boy or girl as an adult into the tribe . |
| 26 | Serious wrongs — unfaithfulness , cruelty of one kind or another — are not easy to confess or to forgive , but any other way of dealing with the past will harm not only the marriage but the two individuals — whether they need to forgive or to be forgiven . |
| 27 | Those who have experienced marriage may attempt to encourage curiosity and thoughtfulness through education of one kind or another . |
| 28 | When these ideas are taken up the employees receive bonuses of one kind or another . |
| 29 | People , at least in the articulate middle classes , usually have their horror stories of public transport , their run-ins with bureaucrats of one kind or another . |
| 30 | All his subjects were workers of one kind or another : ‘ a man with a spade , a sower ( twice ) , a girl with a broom twice . |