Example sentences of "or [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result . |
| 2 | How well or badly they function . |
| 3 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 4 | Or rather they seemed to be . ’ |
| 5 | Or rather they did . |
| 6 | Governments come and governments go ( or rather they do n't ) , pop idols streak through the firmament and disappear , but there is one constant in a topsy-turvy world , the beacon of truth and clarity that is the NME . |
| 7 | The standard wines from the estate are not to be sniffed at — or rather they repay careful nosing , especially the unusually ripe but fresh and balanced Pinot Blanc ( £5.49 ) , and the highly perfumed Muscat ( £6.99 ) . |
| 8 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 9 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 10 | Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere … |
| 11 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 12 | Or perhaps they felt shy anyway , seeing her here where she did n't belong . |
| 13 | I mean if he 's , I mean he , he says or the implication is that it will stop when they get everything they achieve or perhaps they 've already got what they set out |
| 14 | Or perhaps they do , for the beast does swerve aside , though this could be only chance . |
| 15 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 16 | Or perhaps they did n't actually do any work at all . |
| 17 | Or perhaps they sort through the plastic bag of pubic hairs they keep specially to place on the side of your bath before you check in ? |
| 18 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 19 | Within a mile or less they came to a stream . |
| 20 | Similar sort of guitar work apparently or so they tell me . |
| 21 | It is truly amazing that in a civilized country with a government staunchly committed to law and order , or so they say , that the tax payer , you Mr President , you fellow delegates , me , and my members , our members , are left to pick up a bill amounting to millions of pounds as a result of actions by certain employers , which are , without doubt , criminal , but not against the law . |
| 22 | Or so they say , we 'll get eight pound . |
| 23 | The medical profession increasingly recognize stressful tension as the underlying cause of many illnesses , a cause of much discomfort and widespread unhappiness to many people whether or not they hear well . |
| 24 | At the initiative of the centrist faction , however , the Court adopted a new test of the constitutionality of state abortion laws , by considering whether or not they constituted an " absolute obstacle or severe limitation to the abortion decision " . |
| 25 | Rats undergoing massive small bowel resection weighed less than controls both at one and two weeks whether or not they received CR-1409 ( 8–14% less at one week , p<0.001 ; 10–24% less at two weeks , p<0.001 ) . |
| 26 | Whether or not they lied in describing the agreement with Edmund , as Florence claims , Cnut 's use of it ( assuming that the Worcester chronicler can be trusted thus far ) to legitimise his position is interesting , because it suggests that right of conquest was not thought title enough . |
| 27 | The board of directors of the target company have to give their opinion on the offer and make it clear whether or not they recommend it . |
| 28 | Whether or not they succeed depends on which theory of the Greek character you chiefly believe . |
| 29 | This party , oblivious to my presence , were arguing over whether or not they had found the summit , which depressed me somewhat . |
| 30 | Opinion among doctors seemed to be more polarised , depending on whether or not they had worked with him ; the term ‘ lazy devil ’ had passed more than one set of lips that morning . |