Example sentences of "or [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 2 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 3 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 4 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 5 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 6 | The adventurers could use the information to denounce the suppliers to the authorities and hope for a reward ( or perhaps a Chaos cult declaring war on them ) , or less scrupulous characters might turn to blackmail , either for money or for magical training . |
| 7 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
| 8 | In general , the photograph will be protected by copyright which will be owned by the publisher or perhaps a freelance photographer . |
| 9 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 10 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 11 | or perhaps a quiz show that started then , you know . |
| 12 | They recognised him , or perhaps the gold band round his helmet . |
| 13 | Or perhaps the deputy editor Simon Heffer — who penned the tribute — was confusing ‘ legendary ’ charm with ‘ mythical ’ charm . |
| 14 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 15 | Or perhaps the transition adventure was just a ripple on the ocean of complexity in which all newcomers to the Course must quickly learn to sink or swim . |
| 16 | Today we see this in terms of which places have the shops , local school , or perhaps the parish church . |
| 17 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 18 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 19 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 20 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 21 | And this was er more or less the trade union business . |
| 22 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 23 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 24 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 25 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 26 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 27 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
| 28 | After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully . |
| 29 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 30 | Balance occurs when equals or Thus the input resistance at balance comprising ( ) in parallel with ( ) amounts to as required . |