Example sentences of "or [adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did she feel like a raw beginner in medical school , having to explain her actions , or rather her lack of them , to a senior ? |
| 2 | Besides , Hugh 's presence in her life — or rather her pretence at his continued existence — was a pawn in her game , the game of survival . |
| 3 | Explain to sellers that under the new National Protocol , it is their obligation ( or rather your obligation on their behalf ) to undertake a local authority search . |
| 4 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 5 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 6 | It 's not her dying while he 's there that panics him , I reckon ; it 's the thought of something messy or perhaps her dipping into another decade and making him one of the period characters . |
| 7 | Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 8 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 9 | Their greater need is for explanations — or so their interest in these lessons suggests . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 11 | Our mind , emotions and spirit — integral to our physical well-being , or conversely our state of disease — are not divorced from our cellular components , and the known ability of the mind to influence DNA coding ( or vice versa ) and therefore enzyme activity , opens doors to a view of the human entity that has far-reaching implications yet to be realized . |
| 12 | The problem was that I could not be sure if this was your true feeling for me , or just your terror of Mathilde 's ghosts making you cling to me in that delightful and extremely inflammatory fashion . |
| 13 | His critics wonder if he wo n't talk or worse his way into trouble first . |
| 14 | Moreover , when we speak of the perceived function of reformed monasteries , we do not mean primarily their economic functions as efficient optimizers of agrarian wealth , or even their cultivation of knowledge and production of books . |
| 15 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 16 | It would surely be over-hasty to argue that a mother , for example , who clearly preferred her showjumpers , or even her collection of books , to her children , was necessarily in the wrong ; she might nonetheless treat her offspring very well . |
| 17 | The net result is that the slowdown in the production of fixed capital will also cause a reduction in the rate of growth of , or even its reduction to zero . |
| 18 | Never will he let a finance executive ( or even his boss under the influence of one ) impose a budget on him . |
| 19 | The original supplier er withdrew all his guarantees about the performance of the detector , or indeed his commitment to the delivery schedules , shortly after we had er placed the development contract with the consortium and er the consortium recognised that it could not live with that situation and immediately set to work to find an alternative supplier . |
| 20 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |