Example sentences of "[be] [verb] or the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The coypu man could not be dismissed or the danger of him glossed over . |
2 | If there is dilution of over 5% , the fully diluted earnings per share should be disclosed or the fact that it is not material should be stated . |
3 | just to get the general picture , let me an exact period , let's get estimates because we have no idea , er , so estimates might be made or the management costs , four months or six months would you say before anybody moved in ? |
4 | During this time , the marriage could be saved or the custody of the children resolved before the courts agreed that the marriage was irretrievably broken down . |
5 | It is only with such a system that uneconomic jobs or work types can be identified and stopped for either the fee basis to be renegotiated or the amount of work done reassessed . |
6 | the user is not associated with the DC , in which case the correct user name should be used or the managership of the DC transferred to the required user . |
7 | Stickers can be used or the child can tick the chart , colour in a square , draw a happy face or whatever they like . |
8 | the user is not the manager of the package , in which case the correct user name should be used or the mangership of the package transferred to the required user . |
9 | Where the system falls down , of course , is when someone changes their mind about the typeface that 's going to be used or the number of columns per page . |
10 | Perhaps the Hansard report can be corrected or the Opposition spokesman can come to the House and correct his party 's blunders . |
11 | We have seen the subsidiary information field as providing parameters needed by an operation , such as the number of bits to be shifted or the length of an operand . |
12 | The causes of high blood pressure , or hypertension , and of clotting , or thrombosis , are still obscure , in spite of the mountains of evidence accumulated about the mechanisms by which the blood pressure may be raised or the blood may clot . |
13 | Additional modules names may now be entered or the range of existing modules extended . |
14 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |
15 | A corollary of the mechanism is that either not too many kinds of clusters must be involved or the collapse size has to be fairly independent of the cluster structure . |
16 | Any combination of these types may be input or the field left blank , to indicate that the unit will perform none of these operations , at present . |
17 | An estimate for repair should be obtained or the repairer should be contacted to confirm a repair is not possible . |
18 | Additional information provided by this technique can indicate whether current treatment should be maintained or the schedule changed . |
19 | Coals must be desulphurised or the sulphur dioxide removed after burning . |