Example sentences of "or it [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle of salvation may be theological , as in the case of religious fundamentalism ; or it may be purely secular , as with ethnic nationalism ; or it may involve some combination of the two . |
| 2 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 3 | A database may hold factual information e.g. facts about Eskimo life or important Eskimo words and their meaning or it may hold bibliographic information ( fiction or non-fiction ) e.g. references to books , slide-sets , films , or periodical articles on Eskimo life and their environment . |
| 4 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 5 | The classification may be an organizational one , arranging detailed criteria into lists , or it may represent some kind of conceptual hierarchy of increasingly higher order objectives . |
| 6 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 7 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 10 | If management , as usually conceived , attempts to mediate this role it will either fail utterly because it will be excluded by the people involved , or it will have distorting effects which can only be dysfunctional . |
| 11 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 12 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 13 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 14 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |