Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 28% live in countries where it is illegal or legal only when the woman 's life is threatened . |
| 2 | The watershed mark is thought to be the point at which a user could get hold of such a board at a couple of hundred dollars or more less than the cost of buying a complete PC solution . |
| 3 | However , recent legislation suggests that such a simplistic approach by the librarian is no longer tenable or advisable even when the publication is neither obscene nor indecent . |
| 4 | It was three or four a.m. and the music was very slow ; and usually at that time Boy would have gone , or have found someone , or have been found by someone . |
| 5 | In front of his nose dangles a hexagonal rubber handle suspended from a chain , installed a year or two earlier when the University removed all automatic flushing systems from its men 's cloakrooms as an economy measure . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |