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 .
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