Example sentences of "or [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 2 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 3 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 4 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 5 | Much of the ceramic material in eastern England , less so in the south , is stamped , that is decorated by pressing a carved die or naturally occurring object into the surface . |
| 6 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |
| 7 | Fumaroli 's book is among the first to break the consensus , to ask whether all this expenditure has revived French cultural vitality or merely made culture into a stylish prisoner of the French state . |
| 8 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 9 | one critical detail to observe , no matter whether we are raw novice , or long experienced and that is safety Always remember that your lines can conduct electricity , cut skin , trip passers-by , or generally cause mayhem with grass mower blades . |
| 10 | The smooth , or flush sided exterior of these ‘ Coronation ’ coaches was in Prussian Blue , with silver streaks , that continued back in parallel the whole length of the train , beginning from an inverted prow point on the circular casing over the locomotive 's smoke box door . |
| 11 | The crofts are generally grouped in small , linear ‘ townships ’ along the coast , with their ‘ inbye ’ or individually rented land between the seashore and the township 's common grazing land . |
| 12 | ‘ We want as many Mini owners as possible to join the convoy , come for the weekend or just take part in the tour that Sunday . ’ |
| 13 | You can either use all or just adapt part of the design to suit your needs . |
| 14 | Many parents have no-one who can care for their young children , whether they are of preschool age or just require supervision during school holidays . |
| 15 | Or just taking part by coming . |
| 16 | Or just pass time of day . |
| 17 | Changes in methods of firing and the growing popularity of Raku have altered all this , and whether you immerse the object in sawdust , and then set fire to the lot , or just sprinkle sawdust on the newlyfired and still hot piece , the subtleties in surface texture can be extremely rewarding . |
| 18 | Some are as much as five feet high , and the floor is pierced , whether for libations to the dead or just to prevent accumulation of rain-water . |
| 19 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 20 | knitted directly to cast on edge or directly to last row of knitting |
| 21 | The position of the hole for the ballvalve stem may be dictated by a backplate or specially strengthened section near the top of the cistern . |
| 22 | The difficulty factors can operate as foci for teaching : pupils ' search strategies , their competence in interpretation and in calculation may separately or collectively need attention in order to improve performance . |
| 23 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 24 | Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride . |
| 25 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
| 26 | For example , voluntary sector organisations who solely or partly incorporate work on domestic violence as part of their brief , ( eg Women 's Aid ) were investigated . |
| 27 | These proposals contrast with the growing importance and assumptions behind ‘ categorical ’ ( Harland , 1985 ) or centrally targeted funding on favoured educational projects ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative , Low Attainers project ) . |
| 28 | This has led some economists to rule out or substantially to downgrade price as a factor [ Caves , 1968 ; Posner and Steer , 1979 ] . |
| 29 | Papandreou reckons that this would allow EC governments which already ban or severely limit promotion of the killer weed to block imports of magazines which carry cigarette advertisements . |
| 30 | It needs to be done subtly , for flashing a TA card or immediately mentioning membership of the police reserve , for example , incenses some regular police . |