Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an awful lot of females who go through the programme and get nowhere or have unsuccessful attempts . |
| 2 | The Congress , which partly superseded the former USSR Supreme Soviet , is elected for a five-year term and convenes once or twice a year to decide on major constitutional , political and socio-economic questions . |
| 3 | Pour over a green salad and serve immediately or hand separately . |
| 4 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 5 | In many societies , but more particularly in modern societies , there are numerous different centres of political thought and experience : educational institutions of various types ; party organizations ( including party schools and research institutes ) ; the mass media ; more or less official ‘ think tanks ’ ; the central offices of trade unions and employers ' associations ; international agencies ; and a considerable number of private associations devoted to political research and education , some of which have grown out of social movements and remain more or less closely connected with them . |
| 6 | Patients living within the defined geographical area were considered to have severe acute renal failure if the serum creatinine concentration rose above 500 µmol/l for the first time and then returned to below that level and remained there or if the patient died during the acute illness and the history or necropsy confirmed acute renal failure . |
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| 8 | These were of particular interest because they confirmed suspicions that Syrian traffickers were developing close commercial ties with the Colombian cartels , trading heroin base for cocaine base and bartering either or both as required for arms supplies to terrorist and revolutionary groups around the world . |
| 9 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 10 | It , it 's , it 's not you , it 's not until you 've probably worked in another place and come here or go |
| 11 | Pour in the eggs and stir once or twice , allowing the eggs to set lightly around the edges . |
| 12 | ‘ We practise lying on a bouncing ball and reading aloud or singing the words in the book . |
| 13 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 14 | Such a dating , however , runs contrary to the other accounts of Molla Fenari 's trip to Egypt and has little or nothing to support it . |
| 15 | Certainly one of the ancient routes from Ireland and Wales to the continent of Europe crossed Cornwall and followed more or less what is now the B3269 road which passes the Iron Age fort of Castle Dore , for many years associated with the tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult . |
| 16 | He applied his right eye to the hole and blinked once or twice to accustom himself to the darkness . |
| 17 | Select the application name form the following list and choose okay or press enter , and its DOS editor |
| 18 | The biographical sources mention a few facts and anecdotes attributable to this period , among them the fact that toward the end of his life he was afflicted with ophthalmia and became nearly or totally blind . |
| 19 | There was quite a few men and made more or less the customers ' requirements and when I was in charge , there was sixteen and they , about in two or three parties , er you know and they 'd make different kinds of locks what was ordered and not particularly er mortice or rim er what the customer required . |
| 20 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 21 | The antarctic continent has no indigenous land birds or mammals , and man can not live off the land there ; however , many millions of marine birds and mammals feed at sea and come ashore or onto the sea ice to breed . |
| 22 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 23 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 24 | If you really want to be energetic , there 's windsurfing and waterskiing here or you can stroll along the beach to where they still make wooden Turkish boats by hand . |
| 25 | The basic idea , however , is simple : differences in performance can be measured ; employees can therefore be rewarded differently and appropriately ; employees will make the connection and work harder or more effectively . |