Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Whether by some trick of the Mercator Projection , or due simply to the natural chauvinism of cartographers , Indonesia seldom reveals her true proportions , or even her whereabouts .
2 Ages tend to be entered initially as six , seven or eight mainly with a view to achieving an acceptable age of completion for secondary entry .
3 We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us .
4 Socially this is a serious problem because most of these countries were experiencing housing stress of one kind or another even before the recent downturn in house production .
5 It were six Five or six o'clock in the morning I think I arrived in Aberdeen at six o'clock .
6 The lower foot is usually placed at about 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock to the slope .
7 Normally , the Italian is one of the two or three best in the world at the latter event and this opening race will gauge her recovery .
8 He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours .
9 The poor chap 's having to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning , this is being paid for it .
10 I usually watch it about two or three o'clock in the morning .
11 Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital .
12 They are , I mean there 's only usually two or three there at a time , but you see it 's all bricking at the present
13 The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general .
14 But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed .
15 In truth it drags along far to slowly and is never quite interesting or gripping enough in the right places despite the considerable efforts of the players .
16 In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance .
17 ‘ It now happens at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning .
18 If we just get fifty or sixty back for the
19 And where would the trigger for worldwide revolution come from — advanced economies or those still in the process of industrialization ?
20 Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m .
21 Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 .
22 The Bournemouth International Centre is not really extensive or flexible enough for a modern Conservative Party Conference .
23 Printers … had several books in production at once — as many as ten or twelve even in a two-press shop …
24 We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau .
25 The Baptist Total Abstinence Association recorded a membership for England and Wales of 1,315 ministers and 205 ministerial students or nine out of every ten Baptist ministers and candidates .
26 Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn .
27 Cherry reds polish — brown , tan or red all over the boot , then black smeared in the creases — to antique it up !
28 or sprawling lumpily beside the road
29 ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’
30 Virtues are essentially qualities of character which are useful or agreeable either to the agent or others .
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