Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every ad is a fresh chance to make a blunder which opponents can seize on ; a badly conceived or badly produced advertisement or party political broadcast can alienate voters . |
| 2 | ‘ Bodily Injury ’ does not include sickness , disease or naturally occurring condition or degenerative process but does include death or disablement as a direct result of exposure to the elements . |
| 3 | Defects in β2 may be either mutations , which affect the structure of the protein , or greatly reduced expression or absence of mRNA . |
| 4 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 5 | But green campaigns directed at the handling of solid waste sometimes go much further than is justified by the need to protect health , or even to prevent litter or damage to the landscape . |
| 6 | Perhaps research shows that the advertising should give new information , stimulate trial , change , ideas and perception or simply build awareness or greater familiarity with a name . |
| 7 | not to reprint ( save with prior written consent of the Publisher ) or otherwise reproduce change or tamper with the Publications |
| 8 | Computer jargon that really means information or facts . |
| 9 | Commitment accounting is much less widely adopted in practice than either cash accounting or accruals accounting . |
| 10 | To compensate , choose as many magic items as possible that either boost leadership or negate fear . |
| 11 | If mutations that specifically damage survival or fertility of the old are common enough , mutation may overwhelm selection , causing catastrophic senescence ( Box 2 and Fig. 2 ) . |
| 12 | James Stephens [ q.v. ] wrote that ‘ when something had to be done he did it , and entirely disregarded logic or economics or force . ’ |
| 13 | Or yes that 's one thing because he does n't like it anymore or he might have had a a problem with selling it to someone or something and just to take revenge or something he says |
| 14 | subordinates strongly and persistently resist delegation or are poorly motivated to take on wider responsibilities . |
| 15 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 16 | The autocratic style of a president who regarded state-controlled radio and television as a transmission service for the government , who felt free to interpret his constitution as he saw fit and regularly to circumvent parliament or his own ministers teetered perpetually on the verge of excess . |
| 17 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 18 | Prick the base all over with a fork , line with foil and then add rice or baking beans . |
| 19 | Initial investigations suggested that the crash had been caused by a combination of bad weather and either pilot error or a failure in the communications system . |
| 20 | Obviously , they are by doing this attempting to discharge their own guilts , hide their own feverish obscenities , evade their own personal responsibilities and cleverly avoid gossip or rumour which would be more lethally accurate than that which they have generated themselves . |
| 21 | Paint , however , should always be washable — do not use emulsion because you will not bc able to wash grease and smoke off easily , but rather use gloss or eggshell finishes . |
| 22 | The picture which emerges is one where there was a good deal of casual crudity and the occasional fight between individuals or small groups but little orchestrated rowdyism or violence . |
| 23 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 24 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 25 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 26 | At Mucking ( Jones 1980 ) blocks of slag were recovered , the largest weighing 24 kilograms , produced when either waste slag or cinder was dropped into the bottom of the shaft , cooling into such blocks . |