Example sentences of "or [prep] [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case , there is no express or implied requirement in the Criminal Justice Act 1967 that a decision fixing the tariff period , or for that matter a decision to release a prisoner on licence , must be taken by the Secretary of State personally . |
| 2 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 3 | They could be applied to anything regardless of whether it was an Oxford College , or for that matter an oak tree or my dog . |
| 4 | Erm you have n't had the the figures of the local authorities erm on that or for that matter the public at large which I think is important . |
| 5 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 6 | To believe the brochures , or for that matter the cover of the South American Handbook with its exotic bright orange cock of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ) , is to be disappointed . |
| 7 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 8 | As is unhappily all too apparent to the student of human nature , purely conscious intentions , even when whole-heartedly adhered to , are ready subject matter for forgetting , for mistakes , or for plain abandonment the moment something more interesting or more desirable comes along . |
| 9 | The idea that stories should always show the ideal would soon , one feels , convince young readers that literature is not about life , or about any life the reader knows . |
| 10 | Turning from or onto northerly headings the compass will give an indication of a turn in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | At each school the headteacher ( or in one school a representative ) and at least one other member of staff were interviewed . |
| 12 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 13 | The main point of Engels 's and Morgan 's argument is that , once again , the State has the same origin as the family , private property , and class division , or in other words the overthrow of the gens . |
| 14 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 15 | Bars 1–2 of this part rely on the intervals of thirds , sixths and flat fifths — or in other words the interval structure of the B7 and Bb7 dominant chord structures that are used . |
| 16 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 17 | The female deals with the young without the help of the male , or in certain cases the male rears the young without the help of the female . |
| 18 | ( c ) Supervision orders A supervision order places a child under the supervision of a designated local authority , or in certain circumstances a probation officer . |
| 19 | Transplantation with either a combined liver and lung ( heart ) or in certain situations a liver alone , however , offers the possibility of longterm relief of PHT . |
| 20 | In this respect it would appear that the preferences and relative power of the parties are especially important in shaping structure — that either unions or employers , or in some cases the government , want ( and if necessary can make ) it that way . |
| 21 | In the interests of ease of application , the schedule order of facets is usually the combination order of the facets defined in stage 3 above , or in some cases the reverse of the combination order . |
| 22 | Many constituents write to me regularly , expressing themselves strongly and loudly of the opinion , or in some cases the fact , that there has been serious abuse of the immigration laws . |
| 23 | In the past the GDR had never established diplomatic relations with Israel , partly because the regime refused to admit that the GDR was responsible for war crimes or in any way a successor to the Third Reich . |
| 24 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 25 | 4.25 Regular internal review of residents ' progress should take place when an escalation of aggression occurs or at any time an officer in charge considers appropriate . |
| 26 | Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs . |
| 27 | ‘ You try having a father — or at any rate a stepfather — who 's in a coma . |
| 28 | Without himself , thought Dyson , or at any rate the possibility of himself , Norman Ward Westerman would be unadmired , unloved , and unrewarded . |
| 29 | As to ( c ) , Tindal C.J. thought that where C refused to deliver up the goods or to answer A's demand , ‘ a jury might be induced to presume a conversion from such silence , or at any rate the owner might in such case enter and take his property subject to the payment of any damage he might commit . ’ |
| 30 | Then my family ; or at any rate the beam of a torch moving about in the kitchen . |