Example sentences of "in [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investments were valued at NZ$13bn , two-thirds relating to the government 's equity investment in wholly or partly state-owned enterprises . |
| 2 | or I 've you know run two words in together or something . |
| 3 | But that will be in together or not ? |
| 4 | My father was maybe in once or twice when I was a boy and he was maybe buying a horse and that but he was very seldom out of the island that I mind . |
| 5 | That was divided between Britain , Germany and France and the other nations in more or less equal proportions . |
| 6 | Some are mainly of laboratory interest but others are clearly related to substances in more or less widespread use . |
| 7 | Only time will tell whether the requirement that ‘ other proceedings ’ must be brought will lead to an increase in more or less spurious statute-based complaints , for instance in respect of unfair dismissal . |
| 8 | It cites cases in which the use of the drug to prevent medically-undesirable conception after childbirth has resulted in more or less continuous bleeding . |
| 9 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the research most of the children referred had been in care for shorter periods of time and were still in more or less meaningful contact with members of their natural families . |
| 11 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 12 | For the best Russian account in more or less modern sound there is Rozhdestvensky on mid-price Olympia ; for tip-top recording quality again there is no good reason to pay more than mid-price — I suggest Skrowaczewski and the Hallé on Pickwick . |
| 13 | In short , behaviour occurs in more or less co-ordinated , regular sequences and patterns : social life involves patterned regularities . |
| 14 | But the appearance of Giap 's armed guerrillas marching in more or less regular military formation seemed to confirm that , already , the Resistance had won . |
| 15 | The Stathern map of 1792 shows the same planning of new roads in more or less straight lines and judging by what the Ordnance map shows in other parts of the Midlands and eastern England the same thing happened fairly generally . |
| 16 | The new mills , factories and works tended to be in more or less remote places , partly because of the need to be near a falling stream for the supply of power , and later to escape too close inspection and regulation of their uninhibited activities . |
| 17 | Why were most English towns left to grow up in more or less haphazard fashion ? |
| 18 | Mobility deprivation is therefore real and can afflict many persons and groups in more or less rural areas . |
| 19 | The smaller peoples of Siberian living as they did in more or less dispersed clan communities or nomadic bands , also resisted the Russian conquerors wherever they could . |
| 20 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 21 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 22 | Kentucky had not appealed to her but in Leicestershire she would be in more or less familiar surroundings — and Mr Harvey had said he might live here if he so chose . |
| 23 | His radicalism now takes this form ( and Freddie is in more or less complete agreement ) : to help all men enjoy the same possibilities for happiness as he does himself — no less . |
| 24 | Dr Rydell points out that this coincides neatly with the bats ' occupation of maternity roosts , most of which are in more or less isolated houses in areas without street lights . |
| 25 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 26 | The words may be recited in more or less regular durational values on one note , or the notes may change now and again . |
| 27 | I was unsteady on my feet , and my head felt like a leftover battlefield , but everything seemed to be in more or less working order . |
| 28 | From then on , West Saxon became the official language of the laws and the charters , although the local dialects were still represented in more or less unsophisticated texts . |
| 29 | The network of person-to-person relationships formula thus refers to sets of rights and duties which find expression in more or less predictable patterns of behaviour . |
| 30 | If there was the slightest breeze from any direction the smoke would spread itself evenly between chimney and room in more or less equal proportions , which was why the once white walls had the appearance of very old ivory and the mounted fox heads , hunting trophies which hung on the walls , had a fine coating of brown dust , and their yellow eyes a slightly inebriated , glazed expression . |