Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] [pron] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If the reason girls achieve less than boys is because of remediable educational or social conditions which disadvantage them , then it is clearly unjust that girls should get a less fair deal than boys .
2 Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap .
3 Ianthe Broome , Daisy Pettigrew , Sister Dew and one or two others whose names she could never remember , now sat down round the table and began to discuss the final arrangements for the bazaar , which had always been exactly the same and always would be , except that from one year to another a pint more or less milk might be ordered for the teas .
4 In addition , museum assistants or other personnel whose task it is to prepare the objects for visitors and to supervise their access to the collections may have more time for other tasks .
5 He also put me in touch with the other two main Texas Department of Corrections ( TDC ) or academic sources whose knowledge I have used .
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