Example sentences of "or [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
2 | But no , not only is he or she a competent scientist , but also something of a lab-coat frocked economist . |
3 | I do not consider he or she a terrible mistake which I will regret for the rest of my life , and I do n't feel I have lost important years of my adolescence . |
4 | Only 55 caused the death of the victim — or one every four years . |
5 | Where more than one remedy is required they can be given in sequence , one at a time , a certain length of time apart — one every ten minutes , for example , or one every half hour . |
6 | English or something a different race if you like , you 're to put it down . |
7 | And I came home about I do n't ken , maybe eight o'clock in the morning or something a beautiful morning . |
8 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
9 | We get the husband , or whoever the jealous party was , bounding into the boudoir and catching 'em copulating . |
10 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
11 | New group " pictures " give him or her a new range of emotional responses . |
12 | The art of making a good deal as an agent is to keep the promoter 's costs down , while allowing him or her a sufficient budget to make sure the event is successful . |
13 | Indeed , many systems of criminal law impose a mandatory sentence for murder ( or whatever the highest form of homicide is called in that system ) . |
14 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
15 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
16 | But honestly , Folly , I would n't dream of blackmailing them or whatever the old bat thinks I 'm going to do . |
17 | If we take the view that pragmatics is concerned only with grammatically encoded aspects of context ( see definition ( 8 ) above ) , then we might propose a tidy division of labour between pragmatic and sociolinguistic accounts of honorifics : pragmatics would be concerned with the meaning of honorifics ( e.g. with the specification that V encodes that the addressee is socially distant or superior ) , while sociolinguistics would be concerned with the detailed recipes for usage of such items ( e.g. the specification that amongst some segment of the speech community , V is used to aunts , uncles , teachers and so on , or whatever the local facts are ) . |
18 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
19 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
20 | Visual information and not just , you know , kids and or whatever the popular press thinks you are . |
21 | But , before Robert had the chance to ask him about the Golden Calf of the Druze , or what a Nizari Ismaili might be , or how many of either group might be lurking around Wimbledon , the bell sounded for the end of break , and , below them , in the Great Hall , he heard the sounds of the whole school assembling for nature , recreation and Islamic dancing . |
22 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
23 | Little does he realise what villainy and treachery lurk in the little town of Sinkport , or what a hideous fate may await him there . |
24 | To them the traditional emphasis on voluntarism and private initiative , which had laid the foundation for Nonconformist power , needed re-examination or what a later generation would call ‘ rationalization ’ . |
25 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
26 | Yeah okay I mean this is all what these schemes or what the current school of thought is . |
27 | The twelve environment ministers of the European Community have agreed that market forces can and should be used to environmental ends , but they failed to decide on the measures to be used or what the environmental ends should be . |
28 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
29 | What the High Court or what the local authority have to consider is how do we protect the welfare of those children ? |
30 | He realized , suddenly , he did n't want to know who or what the little boy was . |