Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such actions may be indicative of a climate of fear , or of caution , or of simply teaching to the test . |
| 2 | But Edinburgh was her capital city ; and in Edinburgh most of the significant dramas of her life happened , or at least came to a head . |
| 3 | and its lasted the memory of it and I do wish I had reported it or at least gone to the library staff . |
| 4 | A goal from one of the modern day Armstrongs could be enough to settle it in Dublin , or at least contribute to a ‘ result . ’ |
| 5 | This gave excitement , the opportunity to go off duty early or at least to return to the warmth and relative conviviality of the police station , as well as prestige … |
| 6 | Maybe that was what started me on chemistry — or at least led to my being a participant one 5 November in filling the iron pots along the portico of UCL with coloured fire , an escapade that led to our being ‘ carpeted ’ by Sir Charles Goodeve ( plain Charlie he was then , and himself in much demand at departmental soirées for his rendering of Canadian College cheers ) . |
| 7 | Third , it is part of the process of increasing human knowledge that every contribution builds on , or at least relates to , previous work . |
| 8 | As soon as she entered the room she knew that Clare had already been telling tales ; or at least complaining to her colleagues . |
| 9 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 10 | And that something should either be accurately stated in the article , or at least referred to with sufficient clarity to enable the reader to identify it . |
| 11 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |
| 12 | I saw them all in control of a class ( or at least presenting to a large group ) and I was well pleased with their competence . |
| 13 | Or at least seem to be absent . |
| 14 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 15 | Even if these obstacles are overcome , just which deals should be deemed legitimate ( or at least open to settlement ) ? |
| 16 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 17 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 18 | At this point the historic West Saxon kingdom of the eighth century could have been stillborn or at least confined to political insignificance beyond Selwood , but there was not enough time for Wulfhere to consolidate his position south of the Thames before a major crisis confronted him . |
| 19 | n political affairs they found themselves calling upon , or at least coming to terms with , bourgeois liberals of the more moderate sort and , however nominally , their kind of representative institutions . |
| 20 | Travis she studiously ignored — or at least pretended to . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister has the capacity to determine the scope of the various offices , or to take-over a department either in practice or by actually adding to his or her own responsibilities . |