Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
2 | Cherry reds polish — brown , tan or red all over the boot , then black smeared in the creases — to antique it up ! |
3 | or sprawling lumpily beside the road |
4 | ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’ |
5 | Virtues are essentially qualities of character which are useful or agreeable either to the agent or others . |
6 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
7 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |