Example sentences of "or [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is true whether the story is an epic with a cast of thousands or nothing more elaborate than a simple family situation . |
| 2 | But his beat is often sluggish and lifeless , and when he does move things along he is apt to produce a coarse effect with his punched-out accents ( listen for example to ‘ Cease to beauty ’ or ‘ The flocks shall leave the mountains ’ ) or his aggressively pushy rhythms ( as in ‘ Happy we ’ or ‘ Love sounds th ’ alarm ’ ) . |
| 3 | It is highly unlikely that TBC personnel would have agreed to such criteria for news without heavy pressure from the Minister or someone else prominent in the Government . |
| 4 | Blocking your feelings will only serve to restrict the way to talk with a partner or someone else important to you . |
| 5 | Occasionally , Yggdrasil toyed with the idea of junking something or someone totally forgettable — Juliana of Norwich , say , or the Bee Gees ' Collected Lyrics or the parish records of Old Sarum but there was always room . |
| 6 | Whether these should be equated with his ‘ heirs ’ , who held land worth £4. 6s. 8d. in Elesborough , his widow , who lived at Whaddon and was a prominent landowner , or someone quite different , is not clear . |
| 7 | Either a right heavy , a real bully , or someone very crooked . |
| 8 | But the committee chairman , the Labour MP , Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ Either changes are made , I hope along the lines that we recommend , or I very much fear statutory regulation to which I am very , very much opposed . ’ |
| 9 | However , although it is possible to use statements opening ‘ I believe that … ’ to make a psychological report , that is not their only or their most usual use . |
| 10 | A less drastic course than either ( or their more common hybrid form ) and one preferred in certain contexts in many cultures , is to blame the injury sustained on a puckish nature-spirit or demon . |
| 11 | Her winning smile or her pretty blonde hair ? |
| 12 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , families are often more concerned by the behaviour of a primary sufferer who , unbeknown to them , is desperately trying to withdraw from drugs than they are by his or her apparently normal behaviour when he or she is continuing regular use . |
| 14 | When did you last tell your partner that you find him or her very attractive ? |
| 15 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 16 | The local variation may not represent information at all for , as Figure 5. 14 clearly shows , some high-frequency noise in the form of horizontal scan line patterns may be present on an image , distracting the user and rendering him or her less capable of recognizing underlying trends . |
| 17 | Reform ( or ‘ rehabilitation ’ ) is the idea that punishment can reduce the incidence of crime by taking a form which will improve the individual offender 's character or behaviour and make him or her less likely to re-offend in future . |
| 18 | He argues that the imbalance acts to increase the person 's risk of schizophrenia by making him or her more susceptible to social influences ( Cutting , 1985 , p. 391 ) . |
| 19 | Ideally , all that needs to be said can be said in an hour , and if you think the journalist is genuinely interested in your work , try to give him or her as much time as required — it is appreciated . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if the media ask for someone to take part , try to make him or her as interesting as possible — for the programme not to themselves ! |
| 21 | They can not be permitted to isolate their child and view him or her as different from other blacks ; rather they must perceive their child to be an extension of other black people . |
| 22 | The weather was foul and despite all attempts by the owner to make the property look nice and homely she could n't quite hide the rainwater dripping through ceilings , black mould on walls with associated smells , or its generally poor condition . |
| 23 | His identification with Christ , whom he called ‘ the greatest of all artists ’ , is here , in defeat , at its most sublime or its most ridiculous , according to one 's point of view . |
| 24 | 17.2.3 is signed by the party concerned or its duly authorised representative |
| 25 | The next step would be to offer thanks when there is reason to believe that the ‘ god ’ , or its more mundane forerunner had fulfilled the expectations of the supplicant . |
| 26 | If anyone else uses the mark , or one deceptively similar , in the course of trade without the owner 's permission , that person can be sued for infringement of trade mark . |
| 27 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 28 | It was ‘ the establishment ’ , or one very thick and influential layer of it ; but it certainly was not made up of stuffed shirts and Colonel Blimps along with their twittering wives . |
| 29 | I was once handed a business-card by a rather large , florid trumpet-player which read ‘ Nam Myo Renga Kyo ’ or something similarly memorable . |
| 30 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |