Example sentences of "or [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 2 | The flaming Maryland had crashed a mile or so North of Dingli . |
| 3 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
| 4 | Another dealer would regularly punt out £40,000 or so worth of stock or so on the account to — wait for it — a school dinner lady . |
| 5 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 6 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 7 | Mass civil disorder , whether it be the result of a real or imagined grievance or merely over-indulgence in alcohol , is not purely a recent phenomenon . |
| 8 | The extent to which this can be done , and , further , whether or not attainment in mathematics is significantly affected by this difference , is unknown . |
| 9 | Any Rough or Not sheet of paper as opposed to an HP surface . |
| 10 | The task difficulty will depend on whether or not knowledge of equivalence of units is required ( Example 103 ) . |
| 11 | They do not apply to the mens rea of the offence and can certainly shed no light upon whether or not belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 12 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 13 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
| 14 | Assessments of individuals along any of these scales is an element of the shared local knowledge which develops out of living in face to face ( or often back to back ) communities . |
| 15 | But anecdote suggests that some parents use the physical appearance of the head as their guide — or even firmness of handshake ! |
| 16 | It is an arresting paradox — although , admittedly , only a seeming one — that where child-rearing veers to the exact opposite extreme to that represented by the Schreber case and becomes a liberal democracy , or even anarchy in microcosm , the eventual consequence , if I am correct , may well be a totalitarian macrocosm . |
| 17 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 18 | The disagreements , or even lack of communication , between , for instance , Hegelians , Marxists , phenomenologists and Thomists have often been deep . |
| 19 | Certainly , as he stared out eastwards , Ramsay could perceive no signs of alarm or even movement in town or beyond . |
| 20 | Bearing these two variables in mind , the argument for age effects becomes less clear and Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that age itself may not be an effective predictor of attainment or even rate of attainment . |
| 21 | But sometimes it is a case of a more specific influence ; a concept , technique or even piece of equipment which acts as an exemplar , parallel or metaphor in another field . |
| 22 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 23 | Essentially , they were trying to examine the progress , or indeed lack of progress , of the immigrant newcomers as they tried to settle into this physical and social landscape . |
| 24 | In such circumstances , the sight , smell , or indeed taste of food and drink , serve to stimulate our appetite . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when accused of eccentricity or indeed perversity of vision , she would claim that all knowledge must always be omnipresent in all things , and that one could startle oneself into seeing the whole by tweaking unexpectedly at a surprised comer of the great mantle . |
| 26 | It is unclear whether a poor nutritional state is a prerequisite for efficacy of elemental diet , whether previously treated patients respond as well , or how duration of remission using elemental diet compares with corticosteroid induced remission . |
| 27 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 28 | And although some 6,000 of them did fight , either in their own units or occasionally side by side with Afghans , most returned home without incident . |