Example sentences of "or [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ring them , or better still go to see them all , and ask if they are interested in carrying out the survey , how much they charge and when they can do it . |
| 2 | You diet , or perhaps just try to change to better food , or to increase exercise . |
| 3 | Whether you want to be ultra-feminine and coy with a tiny dinky bag , or to use a chic leather box to give out vibes of power and control , or perhaps just want to splash out on serious quality in a crazy colour the handbag is the lifestyle message of the season . |
| 4 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 5 | The exoskeleton of the head is composed of several sclerites more or less intimately associated to form a hard , compact case or head-capsule , general works on which include those of Duporte ( 1957 ) , Gouin ( 1968 ) , Manton ( 1964 ) , Matsuda ( 1965 ) , Snodgrass ( 1947 , 1960 ) and Strenger ( 1952 ) . |
| 6 | The meso- and metathorax become more or less intimately associated to form a pterothorax and the union is often so close that the limits of those regions can only be ascertained with difficulty . |
| 7 | We have seen how entries in the internal lexicon can be more easily or less easily accessed according to whether they correspond to words which have a high or low frequency of occurrence in language . |
| 8 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 9 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 10 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 11 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 12 | These can either be built into a permanent unit , or merely carefully stacked to form supports for the bits , then dismantled when not required . |
| 13 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 14 | Moving now to lesser developed countries , a general review of conservation programmes of Algeria , Tunisia and Morocco ( Bensalem in FAO 1977a : 159 ) concludes that ‘ soil conservation practices in North Africa have been focussed mainly on corrective mechanical measures , which in most cases have been insufficient or not suitably adapted to counter erosion problems ’ He goes on , like so many other commentators , about the lack of applied knowledge of both the appropriate technical options ( e.g. the successional capacity of the native plant cover which can be used to rehabilitate degraded land ) , but also , very significantly , ‘ there are soil conservation and dune afforestation schemes dating back thirty years , some succeeding and others failing , but without explanation of why ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I do n't know if I 'm more delighted , or just simply relieved to have been selected . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I do n't know if I 'm more delighted , or just simply relieved to have been selected . |
| 17 | The reactions you may experience to these drinks and chocolate , having cleansed your system of them or more importantly having overcome any addiction you may have had , may include : migraine headache irritability depression anxiety shaky nervous feeling increased passage of urine mental overactivity insomnia weight gain . |
| 18 | Charity was not sufficient or evenly enough distributed to take over from out-door relief . |
| 19 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 20 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 21 | On 17 January 1989 , US District Court Judge Thelton Henderson issued an injunction against NMFS ordering the entire US tuna fleet to carry observers , and ordering all US tuna boats operating in the ETP without observers to ‘ immediately return to port or otherwise immediately act to carry on board an official certified observer . ’ |
| 22 | ORDER YOUR COPY NOW OR WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE USING THE COUPONS BELOW |
| 23 | However , there are occasions when the product is either too expensive or too highly specialised to give away . |
| 24 | Other aromatic varieties are either too delicate to cultivate in Champagne or too late ripening to bear fruit . |