Example sentences of "or at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 2 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 3 | The question of accent is important too — you need to be confident of the accent with which you are working , and it is always advisable to present an accent you are familiar with or at least can work with comfortably . |
| 4 | Actors who train and go to drama school are usually on grants from local education authorities and to deny them the chance to join the profession — or at least compete properly — is ridiculous . |
| 5 | Those nearer the top , particularly in the Black Preceptory , the inner sanctum of the society structure , are there because of their moral and religious standing in the local community : wealthy farmers , businessmen , good churchmen , or at least of known moral probity . |
| 6 | But emotionally , the non-people are hated or at least detested . |
| 7 | The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices . |
| 8 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 9 | But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster . |
| 10 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 11 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 12 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 13 | Another dimension , or at least our world as a single dimension among many , he wrote . |
| 14 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 15 | Countless other pubs which date from the Georgian period , or at least incorporate a significant element of Georgian building work , have suffered similar fates . |
| 16 | Some companies offer to do the training either on their own premises or at the client site . |
| 17 | Or at least , not always . |
| 18 | In addition to maintaining positive plant health , there are several ways to avoid the probability of serious pest attacks , or at least lessen their impact , which in turn will cut down on the need to apply pesticides . |
| 19 | There is a very real risk that even at 15,000 feet the pilot may become unconscious , or at least incapable , from the combination of cold and lack of oxygen . |
| 20 | Ask your doctor or at the family planning clinic . |
| 21 | It can cause severe problems at home or at work for you , your family and others . |
| 22 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 23 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
| 24 | You have a lot to lose , thought Jay , rolling a cigarette , and you know damn well you might have to , or at least turn it all upside down if you let yourself fall in love with me . |
| 25 | When ill , which was often , Mrs Cohen acted as his nurse , and thus their children were largely left free to do as they liked , or at least as much as their ‘ nanny ’ allowed them . |
| 26 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 27 | But this throws into high relief Leonard 's ( or at least Breavman 's ! ) denial of spiritual responsibility : if the onus had passed to his uncles , and thereby to his cousins , why should he care ? |
| 28 | He had built , or at least started to build , a public ( in the Kierkegaardian sense : ‘ a gigantic something , an abstract and deserted void which is everything and nothing ’ ) and he was determined to stay true to it ; recognising that publicity is the lifeblood of an author . |
| 29 | And not just in Britain either , though it was now setting the pace - or at least contributing its own in all these fields . |
| 30 | The spice-box itself is one of the most suggestive symbols in Judaism ; one which forcefully elucidates the Sabbath festivities , or at least their completion . |