Example sentences of "or [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
2 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
3 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
4 | Full details of the Terms , Conditions and Exclusions will be sent with your invoice or you may ask for a copy of the Master Policy beforehand should you wish to inspect it . |
5 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
6 | Really , his point made — a kind of behave yourself young lad , or you will come to a sticky end — he stood up and wandered back to the bar . |
7 | he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet . |
8 | Or you can choose from a variety of packages with different top hotels . |
9 | Or you can enter into a second Deed of Covenant committing yourself to make payments under both the existing and new covenants . |
10 | Or you could step into a VR of the Louvre Art Gallery and attend a class about the painting of the Mona Lisa . |
11 | Any software that uses a page description language called PostScript will talk to Linotype photosetters , TeX talks to just about anything ever made or you could go for a specialist product such as Itek 's PTW which links to their Digitek photosetter . |
12 | Alright , is that significantly different from zero or you could go to a pie squared tables , look at the degrees of freedom , which is one , right . |
13 | Either you should ask your spouse to enter into the covenant or you could enter into a Joint Deed of Covenant signed by both you and your spouse . |
14 | She may have wings , or she may ride in a chariot drawn by wild animals . |
15 | If the covert researcher is not to arouse suspicion , then he or she must behave like a believer , not stepping out of line by questioning or exhibiting too much curiosity about the functioning of the organisation . |
16 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
17 | or he or she could start with a Viking place name or a reference to a Viking raid in their own area . |
18 | Many families often feel that assisting the child to reinforce his or her identity in terms of colour and ethnicity will probably render the child unable to form a healthy attachment to them ; the child may feel that he or she should belong to a black family . |
19 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
20 | ‘ Now , sir , ’ Cranston continued quietly as the other traders slunk back , ‘ I can ask the wardsman to convene a jury of your peers or we can settle on a fine ? ’ |
21 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
22 | One may be a reaction to the other , or they may amount to a tacit agreement on both sides that sexual attraction has become a thing of the past . |
23 | Or they must work for a particular employer ( eg a local council ) , or in a similar trade or occupation ( eg taxidrivers , the police ) . |
24 | Lahars can be a direct result of an eruption , where for instance freshly ejected lava or pyroclasts melt ice or snow , or they can occur as a result of the destabilization of the unconsolidated volcanic debris on the slope of a volcano by an earthquake , or as a result of heavy rain . |
25 | Or they can converse in a sense that they can get a chord progression or a melody together that actually works , and says something , irregardless of the words . |
26 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
27 | It may come from a published or syndicated source , like Retail Business or Mintel , or the Target Group Index ( TGI ) ; or it may come from a survey you have carried out yourself . |
28 | Its function is not known as yet , but the leaf may serve as mobile camouflage to protect the fish from the eight species of kingfisher which feed along this river or it may act as a ‘ stalking horse ’ as the fish pursues its prey . |
29 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
30 | It could be your own or a neighbour 's , or it might belong to a local business , station or pub . |