Example sentences of "or [adv] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some hours before the train is due to leave , a bullock-cart , or camel-cart , or perhaps even an elephant-lorry , arrives at the bungalow , and takes the whole of the load to the station , in charge of the head ‘ boy ’ . |
| 2 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 3 | During the campaign it was reported that the government had extended voting rights to virtually anyone , wherever they lived , who claimed to have one Croatian parent or even merely an intention of acquiring Croatian citizenship . |
| 4 | Deep-down below ground level was an elaborate series of lead-lined bunkers to house the clan in event of nuclear war , or even perhaps an accident at the Cernavoda nuclear plant eighty miles away . |
| 5 | Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme . |
| 6 | It also contains certain diagnostics to deal with unexpected conditions such as too low or too high an illumination level . |