Example sentences of "or [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the disparity in intelligence which Michael felt or imagined made no difference to their affection . |
| 2 | Obviously in the average garden it may be impossible or undesirable to place the pool in the lower part . |
| 3 | To me , the third striking aspect of my aunt 's remark is her ability or right to predict the future for me . |
| 4 | You also need to become accustomed to thinking and using degrees , and deciding whether you need to turn left or right to change the heading . |
| 5 | If both remain silent , or each accuses the other , it is impossible in law to obtain a conviction against either . |
| 6 | The uniqueness of the arrangement that flies , or that opens the safe , is nothing to do with hindsight . |
| 7 | Any sexual activity which draws blood from the genital area or that pierces the skin . |
| 8 | It 's imprudent for the bank to take the traditional senior debt gearing beyond prudent levels or that endangers the whole . |
| 9 | Almost no-one wants to see the Tories or Labour do a deal with the Ulster Unionists . |
| 10 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 11 | Normally , ten or 12 trains a day servicing the Boulby Potash Mine use the bridge . |
| 12 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |
| 13 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 14 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 15 | In the processes of Parliament there will be much consideration whether a Bill should or should not in one form or another become an enactment . |
| 16 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |
| 17 | You can back one party or another to win the election , or bet on men arriving from outer space , without having to make any contribution to the costs of the election campaign or the necessary expenses of the men from outer space . |
| 18 | The combination of the path of that the moon travels and the rotation of the earth means that the moon at one time or another covers the whole goes round goes above all different circ all different places on the earth . |
| 19 | Of all the styles it is the most laborious and there are few professionals able or willing to continue the tradition . |
| 20 | Yet each woman could , theoretically , have given birth to as many as 15 children spaced two years apart or 30 spaced a year apart . |
| 21 | And this means , or this has an impact , this dual role as head of state and head of government , has an impact on what any president can do . |
| 22 | That the British Gas Executive Share Option Scheme ( ‘ the Scheme ’ ) the rules of which are produced to the Meeting ( and , for the purpose of identification , signed by the Chairman ) be approved and the Directors be authorised to take all necessary steps which they consider necessary or appropriate to carry the Scheme into effect including the submission of the Scheme to the Board of Inland Revenue for approval under Schedule 9 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 23 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 24 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 25 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 26 | When the community midwife calls at home on day 6 or 7 to take the heel prick blood sample for the usual screening tests she asks whether or not they want their son tested for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and marks the screening card accordingly . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) If you know who they are , write to the conveyancers for the seller or buyer , as the case may be , confirming that you are acting for your client , and if your client is the buyer asking for the draft contract documentation , or if you act for the seller , either sending or promising to send the draft agreement for sale . |
| 28 | What he did was not merely the making an erroneous account stated , or promising to pay a debt for which he mistakenly believed himself liable . |
| 29 | This may mean two or three sharing a bedroom . |
| 30 | A sheep or three nibbling the grass close . |