Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first consists of goods where particular beneficiaries can ( in theory ) be identified — ‘ allocable expenditures ’ — or of broadly publicly provided private goods ( e.g. , highways and education ) . |
| 2 | He could not bear to think of losing her , or of not wholly possessing her . |
| 3 | The American mink normally shuns human settlement and confines itself to natural , or at least loosely managed , environs . |
| 4 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 5 | Furthermore , neither Roosevelt nor the State Department was persuaded that the British would necessarily or at least wholeheartedly support the United States over the whole range of its postwar interests and aspirations . |
| 6 | Of fascination to some , most would prefer to have it taken away or at least effectively cordoned off so that its presence could largely be ignored . |
| 7 | The people who make up this brain drain are the backbone of the transnational capitalist class , the class whose political role is to persuade co-nationals that their interests are identical with , or at least best served by , those of the TNCs . |
| 8 | Science is therefore public , or at least normally strives to be . |
| 9 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 10 | Townsend measures deprivation in terms of the inability or incapacity to participate in ‘ the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary , or at least widely encouraged or approved ’ because of a lack of ‘ resources ’ ( 1979 , p. 31 ) . |
| 11 | Even at his worst , he implies that he never transcended the ultimate standards of gentlemanly conduct and human decency , or at least never did so without sincere repentance . |
| 12 | Or at least never discussed with her . |
| 13 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 14 | Yet many historians would argue that these claims were fraudulent , or at least greatly exaggerated . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , when individuals such as product champions get it wrong the almost inevitable consequence is bankruptcy , or at least much reduced profitability , with other possibly longer-term consequences . |
| 16 | The critical dimensions of the transformational effort were starting with a vision that was at first unclear or at least insufficiently communicated , focusing too much on cost reduction and not enough on developing a new state , trying to function without adequate transition-management structures , and consciously intervening in the matrix-management issues until they became acute . |
| 17 | But the burden of satisfying private sector returns on loans and investments will fall upon tenants , through increasing rental levels risking the exclusion of those most in need of social housing provision or at least further enmeshing them in the poverty trap . |
| 18 | God must be explained or defined in terms that can be understood , or at least readily believed , by the masses of the populace . |
| 19 | As a result , brand name activity is no longer permissible whereas corporate is , or at least still goes on . |
| 20 | This is not so , however : there is little doubt that in both interpretations pencil refers to the whole object ( or at least potentially does so ) . |
| 21 | It was the first major industrial dispute to test the Conservative Government 's industrial legislation , or at least potentially to do so . |
| 22 | After several weeks in this empty terrain I began to reassess , or at least seriously question , the very nature of landscape painting of the usual sort where every prospect pleases . |
| 23 | If they were not the point behind the initial categorisation is nullified or at least seriously qualified ; the certainty and predictability would be minimal . |