Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If employees move to a part of the country where house prices are comparable or lower then the mortgage allowance scheme will not apply .
2 The landlord should either obtain from the insurers a waiver of subrogation rights as regards the tenant , any undertenant and their mortgagees , or if that is not possible or practicable then the landlord should endeavour to note their interests on the policy .
3 In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies .
4 Or another where the leader chanted , As I went through a chinese town I met a chinese lady .
5 If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs (
6 If the model is slain by enemy missile fire or similar then the catapult may not shoot next turn , but the model may be returned to indicate that another Doom Diver has stepped forward .
7 The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test .
8 For example , if you constrain the lines to be only horizontal or vertical then the line joining the objects will be ‘ steppy ’
9 Complex cases , or those where the sum at stake is above a specified limit , have been the sole province of the High Court .
10 If the reward is unattractive or insufficient then the individual may not perform at all .
11 The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live .
12 Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover .
13 A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences .
14 A month or two later the alarm sounded again .
15 A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup .
16 " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later .
17 The latter decision does not effect any alteration to the English law of negligence as it was in 1976 , or 1967 when the cause of action in that case and this arose .
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