Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counteract this , an individual generally benefits from continual changes in the type of task being performed as well as continual updating on how well or badly the task is being done . |
| 2 | Hiding in one or other of these ways may ‘ work ’ , in that the self-recriminations that the injunctions breed , or rather the awareness of them , is reduced to manageable levels . |
| 3 | We refer to this ratio , or rather the ratio of the tangents of the two angles , as the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) . |
| 4 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 5 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 6 | Near the Place des Greves , or rather the square close to it , a great crowd had gathered to witness an execution . |
| 7 | Paddy looked towards heaven — or rather the ceiling of the educational institution in which he found himself . |
| 8 | As he learned the craft , the penny finally dropped — or rather the ball . |
| 9 | Whichever theory is correct , we can only be sure of the distribution of the tiger today , or rather the day before yesterday . |
| 10 | Each egg , or rather the larva that hatches from it , is provided with a supply of fresh food in the form of a caterpillar , which the female paralyses with her sting . |
| 11 | In other cases , the previous reign of horror may have more recently ended and the name — or rather the nickname — will still be easily recalled by readers . |
| 12 | Watch this space — or rather the space on the backs of those notes . |
| 13 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 14 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |
| 15 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 16 | But the residents are the problem , or rather the lack of them . |
| 17 | Discussion of Sandra 's sex-life could easily stray into the area of his and Marjorie 's sex-life , or rather the lack of it , and he would rather not go into that . |
| 18 | Scriptural authority , or rather the lack of it , is at the heart of the difficulties experienced , for example , by The Churches ' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies . |
| 19 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |
| 20 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 21 | The British Mountaineering Council , in a letter to the prince from Access and Conservation Officer Bill Wright , state that ‘ We are most concerned about the effect the restrictions [ on live firing ] , or rather the lack of them , will have on the area of Willsworthy — this is an area of considerable interest to hill walkers from the South of England . ’ |
| 22 | It concerns finger |
| 23 | This concerns finger |
| 24 | It came to him that what really troubled him was motive , or rather the lack of what he considered to be a convincing motive for the killing . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to bother you , ’ he reflected curiously , ‘ my work — or rather the lack of it . |
| 26 | Ever since they 'd first become friends she 'd been obsessed with Shannon 's love-life , or rather the lack of it . |
| 27 | As you are all probably aware , Death Trap , originally planned for February , had to be scrapped despite valiant efforts by the casting committee and John the directors get around the problem of the men or rather the lack of them . |
| 28 | Bores Hole was used as an air raid shelter , or rather the tunnel that led under the road was , and many tales could be told of nights spent under there during the air raids . |
| 29 | The master manufacturers of Manchester wish that prices might always be high enough to enforce a general industry ; to keep the hands employed six days for a week 's work ; as they find that even one idle day , in the chance of it being a drunken one , damages all the other five , or rather the work of them . |
| 30 | ‘ You asked for this , ’ he commented , ‘ or rather the man you sent demanding an audience asked for it . ’ |