Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 32 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 33 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 34 | But it is another matter to use these ideas , or rather the names of their originators , primarily as weapons against an insular establishment . |
| 35 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 36 | But the residents are the problem , or rather the lack of them . |
| 37 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 38 | The Akali Dal , or rather the faction of the much splintered Sikh movement which swept the November poll in Punjab , was formerly in the forefront of the campaign for a separate homeland . |
| 39 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 40 | But now he appears , or rather the people see the effects of his presence , the sweep of his mighty hand . |
| 41 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 42 | The neglected appearance of so much crofting land is not a reflection of current under-use , but of too intensive use in the past , when land was put under the plough , or rather the spade , which no one who had freedom of choice would ever have broken in . |
| 43 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 44 | Discussion of Sandra 's sex-life could easily stray into the area of his and Marjorie 's sex-life , or rather the lack of it , and he would rather not go into that . |
| 45 | He reached the door , or rather the cast-iron gate as his destination was a villa , quite a large villa with a central courtyard . |
| 46 | It is the new paganism , or rather the old variety with a facelift and a fresh application of make-up . |
| 47 | Scriptural authority , or rather the lack of it , is at the heart of the difficulties experienced , for example , by The Churches ' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies . |
| 48 | In 1813 he mentions ‘ our dance , or rather the girls ' first dance ’ and there are many other diary entries showing attendance at Balls at Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 49 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 50 | The hole , or rather the volume of waste material that is dug from it , has greatly bothered conservationists . |
| 51 | If hamlet ( or rather the actor playing him ) , catches a frog in his throat during a soliloquy , since one is experiencing a human drama this need n't be in the least distracting — indeed the element of human fallibility and frailty thus introduced could even enhance the impact of the performance ( admittedly it could also be unintentionally quite hilarious ) ! |
| 52 | ‘ You asked for this , ’ he commented , ‘ or rather the man you sent demanding an audience asked for it . ’ |
| 53 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |
| 54 | Or rather the mid-evening of that fateful night . |
| 55 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 56 | Thanks to his efforts — or rather the efforts of a couple of socially mobile former PR girls who worked for him — several fortunes were directed , with maximum publicity , into the coffers of the needy . |
| 57 | It brought the house , or rather the train , down . |
| 58 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |
| 59 | Paddy looked towards heaven — or rather the ceiling of the educational institution in which he found himself . |
| 60 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |