Example sentences of "or at [adv] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the star of the show , or at least the back seat of Armstrong , was Simon the Stripping Sexton . |
| 2 | In ages past , the land must have been continuous , or at least the sea passage but a short one . |
| 3 | So to New York , where the world of women 's tennis met for the Virginia Slims Championships to a background of political ferment , following my disclosure in The Daily Telegraph , that , like the men three years earlier , the women — or at least the WTA board — felt they were also ready to declare UDI . |
| 4 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
| 5 | Motor racing , or at least the back-up crews behind the competing teams , was traditionally male-dominated , and Kate was an eye-catching exception . |
| 6 | A final ingredient to throw into the church planting pot was a clearer link kept with the Cobham Fellowship or at least the Pioneer Leadership Team . |
| 7 | Very , very little really , erm we had contact with other Authorities of course , in the course , in erm er particularly in connection with evacuation , erm evacuation took up erm quite a lot of staff and , and time at that er particularly initially because erm Suffolk was in a peculiar position or at least the East Suffolk was , erm at the beginning of the war of course erm East Suffolk was an evacuation , er was erm a reception area |
| 8 | This is consistent with the idea that DNA binding and therefore transactivation by Myc requires association with Max ( either Max1 or Max2 ) or at least the Max bHLH-Z domain ( Max85 ; Figs 1 and 2 a ) . |
| 9 | China , or at least the Nationalist government , like a great ship going down , had taken many hopes and illusions with it . |
| 10 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |