Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We refer to this ratio , or rather the ratio of the tangents of the two angles , as the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) . |
| 3 | Paddy looked towards heaven — or rather the ceiling of the educational institution in which he found himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 6 | But the residents are the problem , or rather the lack of them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It concerns finger |
| 13 | This concerns finger |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems to bother you , ’ he reflected curiously , ‘ my work — or rather the lack of it . |
| 16 | Ever since they 'd first become friends she 'd been obsessed with Shannon 's love-life , or rather the lack of it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or rather the mid-evening of that fateful night . |
| 20 | The significance of autonomy ( or rather the threat of its loss ) in relation to crime control is generally recognised because of its association with imprisonment . |
| 21 | The Akali Dal , or rather the faction of the much splintered Sikh movement which swept the November poll in Punjab , was formerly in the forefront of the campaign for a separate homeland . |
| 22 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 23 | The beast , or rather the cloud of smoke , kept lunging at Little Billy , but Swan was too quick for him and jinked away every time . |
| 24 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 25 | The hole , or rather the volume of waste material that is dug from it , has greatly bothered conservationists . |
| 26 | But puberty , or rather the onset of menstruation , changed all that . |
| 27 | Perhaps the rejection of marriage and the espousal of a profession represents a ‘ deviant career ’ for women , or perhaps the phenomenon of the obsessive , houseproud housewife could be usefully seen as a form of gender role-related deviance . |
| 28 | Or perhaps the plot of a story like this demands such heroism from Jacob , never mind the unheroic qualities he has displayed before . |
| 29 | The process has to stop at any duly authorised statement , e.g. by the Clerk of the Parliaments , or perhaps the Speaker of the House of Commons , etc. , as to what was the will of the House . |
| 30 | An experienced teacher may be wary of revealing uncertainties for fear of losing status in the eyes of colleagues , or perhaps the chance of promotion . |