Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must therefore resist any temptation to read a book on doubt like a medical dictionary , or before long we may convince ourselves that we are suffering from every variety of doubt . |
| 2 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 3 | Part of the reason for that is because sometimes even the press gets it wrong , or at least we used to get it wrong . |
| 4 | Without the faith that our face expresses our self , without that basic illusion , that arch-illusion , we can not live or at least we can not take life seriously . |
| 5 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 6 | So there might be something in the argument that , that it 's not just a , a question of what you 've learned from the north , but there may be a recognition that the economy in the south is different , or at least they might be arguing , those who are arguing that the economy in the south is different and that , that reform might not be necessary , it might not even be appropriate in the south . |
| 7 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 8 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
| 9 | These little blocks are positioned along the length of the pickup so that one lies directly under each string — or at least they should in theory . |
| 10 | The pilot of the future will fly by the flick of her Macintosh mouse — or at least she will gain access to vital information she needs by that means , following that agreement between Apple Computer Inc and Honeywell Inc 's Minneapolis-based Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division . |
| 11 | erm or at least she used to when she was in the hospital . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton can not believe in all the things that his myriad groups of supporters think he believes in , or at least he can not if he is to rescue his presidency . |
| 13 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 14 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 15 | he dare n't make trips , or at least it would n't be wise to make trips yet |
| 16 | It does n't stop there , but goes on evolving — or at least it should . ’ |
| 17 | That is to say , what is true of the sample should be true of the population , or at least it should be possible to calculate the likelihood of its being true . |
| 18 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 19 | But he was a very very kindly man and er he introduced erm me to a lot of things which I would n't otherwise have erm been able to do , or at least I would n't have g had the erm , been invited to do . |
| 20 | I have great difficulty in distinguishing between my property and anyone else 's , or at least I used to , but I do not like to be dismissed as stupid . |
| 21 | For £70 you really expect to get something special , or at least you ought to . |
| 22 | Or at least you can . ’ |