Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 2 | Shallow or superficial learning — like learning a name , address and telephone number that you promptly forget unless you write them down or consciously commit them to memory or use them habitually . |
| 3 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 4 | Did he zip them together or just hand her one ? |
| 5 | The struggle between the NGC and the PLO leadership was one of several important developments which persuaded the people in the West Bank and Gaza that neither the Arab states nor the PLO were capable of liberating them militarily or diplomatically and that it was pointless to continue to hope for a solution from the outside . |
| 6 | We made everything ourselves more or less . |
| 7 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 8 | Yours faithfully yours sincerely or faithfully ? |
| 9 | When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I more or less demanded that Nigel be referred to her . |
| 12 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 13 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |
| 14 | I more or less fell into it , and without quite realising what I was doing obeyed a primitive instinct to hide by crawling under the track . |
| 15 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 16 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 17 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 18 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 19 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 20 | She 's a little young for a holiday infatuation , but we all have them sooner or later . |
| 21 | In which case , since Copenhagen is n't the biggest capital in Europe , the chances are that if we look in the right places we 'll find them sooner or later ! ’ |
| 22 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 23 | Turning now to the issue of occupational differentiation we can see that those occupations which are generally accorded the title of professions base their claims to special status on a number of grounds which together or separately might be used by any other occupational group . |
| 24 | But no matter what the final total may be , the Ceausescu regime has crossed a line which sooner or later should prove fatal for it . |
| 25 | Now I really believe that getting married can place unspoken demands on people , which sooner or later they 'll kick against . |
| 26 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 27 | To a plea from the military that the United States should engage in " positive , dynamic and timely action " before the Soviets acquired " atomic plenty " , Dulles replied that , short of preventive war which had already been ruled out by the administration , the Soviets were bound to develop a nuclear arsenal which sooner or later would threaten the United States with unacceptable levels of destruction . |
| 28 | It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them . |
| 29 | Lord Roskill said that the law was this : " [ i ] t is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to … adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under s.3(1) . " |
| 30 | Lord Roskill had said that : " it is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to … adverse interference " which constitutes the appropriation . |