Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot , Evelyn Waugh , Tolkien , Virginia Woolf , Gertrude Stein , Harold Pinter , Sylvia Plath , Max Beerbohm , to name a haphazard miscellany , advance , hover uncertainly , or slowly fade into obscurity ? |
| 2 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 3 | Instead , the sites are used by local residents , of who some 25 per cent or so come by foot and use the sites like an urban park , primarily to take a walk ( Harrison , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 5 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 6 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 7 | Since then I have refused to subscribe to the view that there is something malevolent or subconsciously deliberate about forgetfulness . |
| 8 | For example , statements that young girls deliberately or increasingly conceive in order to secure local authority accommodation have yet to be substantiated . |
| 9 | Frayed or cut wires , for instance , can destroy expensive property by fire or even kill through electrocution . |
| 10 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 11 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 12 | Before long , a celebrity might find there is no time to tour write new songs or even go on holiday — there is still the charity compilation LP to complete , the three benefit gigs to appear at and the university talks tour to do . |
| 13 | Tutors were offered little or no training , or even access to fulltime employment , not to mention a career structure . |
| 14 | Hoffman is a ‘ character ’ emanating a naive or crotchety puniness ; in this part , however , a more neutral figure , scholarly and aloof but not infantile or even doltish in appearance , would have been vastly preferable . ’ |
| 15 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 16 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 17 | Treat yourself to something special , or simply browse at leisure . |
| 18 | MUSICMAN Stingray bass , natural , pre-Ernie Ball , £525 ono , or maybe swap for Fender Precision/Jazz . |
| 19 | So marriages break up , the man becomes rootless and homeless , and can either end up in prison again within a short time or else drift into destitution . |
| 20 | Sell or otherwise distribute for consideration copies of student practice and/or tutorial disks to students or any other third party . |
| 21 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |