Example sentences of "or [adj] is [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Whether women , or gay men , want to see both , either , or neither is not an argument I want to get into here . ) |
| 2 | The war was over and the Empire had won — or that is how the politicians presented the result of the match between Britain and Germany . |
| 3 | On the contrary , an oddness of one sort or another is frequently a signal that an expression is being used creatively , in a novel extension of its usual sense . |
| 4 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 5 | To a foreign correspondent covering the British election for a foreign audience , whether a party leader appears energetic or decisive is simply a matter of objective reporting : a perception . |
| 6 | Whether one views this level of success as notable or disappointing is largely a function of personal perspective and professional choice . |