Example sentences of "or [prep] [adj] rate [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs . |
| 2 | ‘ You try having a father — or at any rate a stepfather — who 's in a coma . |
| 3 | Without himself , thought Dyson , or at any rate the possibility of himself , Norman Ward Westerman would be unadmired , unloved , and unrewarded . |
| 4 | As to ( c ) , Tindal C.J. thought that where C refused to deliver up the goods or to answer A's demand , ‘ a jury might be induced to presume a conversion from such silence , or at any rate the owner might in such case enter and take his property subject to the payment of any damage he might commit . ’ |
| 5 | Then my family ; or at any rate the beam of a torch moving about in the kitchen . |
| 6 | When will the Government , or at any rate the Opposition , take a leaf out of President Clinton 's book and realise the opportunities presented by the peace dividend ? |
| 7 | To make what are commonly known as " voluminous notes " is a contradiction or at any rate an acknowledgement that you have not yet decided on why you are making notes . |