Example sentences of "or [vb mod] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a valid belief , or should one regard society and politics also as being essentially local in character ? |
| 2 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 3 | ‘ I must say all this is rather terrifying for me — these card indexes and things — or should one say indices ? — I never know . ’ |
| 4 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 5 | If I do the braising steak , will Adam eat a baked potato or should I do roast ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Or should I say portcullis ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What 's for breakfast , or should I say brunch ? ’ |
| 8 | Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’ |
| 9 | A very large number of obstructions and particularly season er seasonally obstructions and the visitors or should I say invisibility of many of the files in the network . |
| 10 | ‘ I presumed that you had another candidate — or should I say victim ? — lined up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Francis , ‘ or should I say Ms. Razorblades , could we attempt lunch ? ’ |
| 12 | p 716 ) in the light , or should I say sound , of our own work . |
| 13 | In his latest film scintillatingly entitled ‘ Dave ’ , he plays a duel role as US president and an ordinary Joe — or should I say Dave — picked out to help the country in crisis . |
| 14 | Its city centre has many more pedestrian areas than Liverpool yet the great difference is that I was not surrounded by litter and street traders ' stalls unlike Liverpool ( or should I say Litterpool ) . |
| 15 | Should the harmonizing measure be confined to business transaction or should it embrace consumer transactions as well ? |
| 16 | Should a company employ its own delivery fleet , or should it hire contractors for distribution ? |
| 17 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 18 | Should you have any difficulty finding the information you require or should you require information not covered by the Directory please ring 0800 262261 . |
| 19 | Can the classical doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation continue to serve as focusing and shaping theology for today , or must they give way to some quite different approach ? |
| 20 | Or must they remain part of the ‘ mass ’ , in other words the corps de ballet , because they are needed to create the proper atmosphere , state the location , suggest the mood and very often respond to whatever is taking place ? |
| 21 | The research is still in the early stages , but it seems the drug could help patients withstand higher doses of radiation , or might itself kill cancer cells . |
| 22 | So , so you were n't really doing anything on their sort of personal development or their social problems or , you know , could they get jobs or could they get work or what were the pressures on them , how |
| 23 | Did it mean he was a problem , or could he solve problems ? |
| 24 | The fish character would be better , or dare I say banana ! |
| 25 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 26 | So at the moment we are really in a bit of a problem about the number of er apprentices being trained , or shall we say trainees being trained across the U K , K at the time , a a at all ! |
| 27 | Or shall we seek comfort in the language of religion ? |
| 28 | The collector is at once confronted with a choice : shall he assemble his collection with only the binding in mind , or shall he pay regard to the contents of the book as well ? |
| 29 | Or would you prefer cocoa ? ’ |
| 30 | Or would you prefer tea ? ’ |