Example sentences of "or else the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , nothing ; or else the memory of a meeting , ‘ but I ca n't recall what the outcome was or what we were discussing . ’ |
| 2 | Either things came out too harshly , heavy , muddy and dull — Mauve called it his ‘ yellow-soap style ’ — or else the tenderness was n't tender enough . |
| 3 | The massive anxiety aroused by these conflicts has to be resolved , or else the nurse will either drop out of training as a ‘ failure ’ , or resolve the conflict by reverting to defensive techniques . |
| 4 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 5 | Yet the Whale must be caught or else the village would know hardship and death . |
| 6 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 7 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 8 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 9 | Or else the Devil was there , that particular night , sitting with him . ’ |
| 10 | For thirty minutes he pressed the horse hard , always hoping that his flight would persuade the Dragoons to abandon their pursuit , but the Frenchmen were stubborn , or else the chase was a welcome break in their day 's tedium . |
| 11 | The Weaving Mother must know the beginning and the end of the process , or else the middle is just a meaningless jumble . |
| 12 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 13 | At this point you have got to say something interesting or else the conversation will pass on and leave you isolated once more . |
| 14 | Any character setting foot on such an area must make a successful I test ( +10 bonus for a Halfling , -10 penalty for any character carrying 75% or more of their normal encumbrance limit ) or else the wood gives way , leading to an 8-yard drop . |
| 15 | This upper part of Saint-Jean also has sections of the old ramparts , which are quite tame as these things go and now thoroughly civilian , overlooking as they do the main street or else the minute gardens of the houses of the old quarter . |
| 16 | A small but obvious point — ensure that the baskets have slatted bottoms as well as sides , or else the water upflow will not percolate the material . |
| 17 | or else the barrow was not searched fully , |
| 18 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 19 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 20 | Other ‘ full-data ’ reference frames have to be inserted periodically in the sequence or else the picture quality rapidly degrades . |
| 21 | In most cases it is important to use a special primer first , or else the paint will flake and peel away , following a chemical reaction between it and the raw concrete . |
| 22 | In simple trusts for restitution of property , there are two options : either the trustee is in possession of the property under an obligation to make it over to the beneficiary at some point in the future ; or else the beneficiary is already in possession . |
| 23 | With ruck ball you must get it speedily or else the opposition — as the French did — will be able to lie flat and close you down . |
| 24 | This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in . |
| 25 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 26 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 27 | Disappearance of their dominance would lead to a unified Ireland or else the restructuring of a new statelet with smaller geographical boundaries in which their dominance was again reassured . |
| 28 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 29 | And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so . |
| 30 | We either treat as a corporation a group of persons — usually the governing body of the institution , though it may include individuals who are beneficiaries and have no share in the government ( for instance , the scholars of a college ) — or else the property of the institution must be vested in a number of individual trustees , who are bound to apply and deal with it for the purposes of the institution . |