Example sentences of "or [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 3 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 4 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 5 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 6 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 7 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |