Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element . |
2 | In other words , Firbas , like Halliday , acknowledges that a unit of information may consist of a given plus new element , or of just a new element . |
3 | We are sure this end that the Pikes would n't be a party to exporting the virus to ( or in even the slightest way aiding ) the place you 've just been . |
4 | Previously one 's knowledge of stars comes from the light that comes in in the optical range and the visible range , or in perhaps the ultra violet if you can put a satellite above the atmosphere . |
5 | When Israel had a Likud government , it refused to hold bilateral talks with any Palestinian from Jerusalem ( lest Israeli sovereignty over the city be challenged ) or from outside the occupied territories ( lest discussion should turn to the refugees ' ‘ right of return ’ ) . |
6 | All it meant was I could attack the trial in the job , which would have made it better for me , or from outside the job . ’ |
7 | Yet the fact of West European industrial growth also had the opposite effect too : these places were not drawn into the new scheme of things in exactly the same way or on exactly the same conditions as France , Britain , Belgium and Holland — the original members of the industrial club . |
8 | A major question is , of course , whether such products provide a better , or at least no worse , hop character than whole hops . |
9 | In this sense , the intent to harm someone may be less immoral ( or at least no more immoral ) than to be indifferent as to whom is harmed . |
10 | Moreover , Marwnad Cynddylan ( ‘ Lament for Cynddylan ’ ) , perhaps by the bard , Meigant , may be of seventh-century date or at least no later than the ninth . |
11 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
12 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
13 | A bright future — or at least a possible meeting with Mike Tyson — beckons for British heavyweight champion Gary Mason after he knocks out Tyrell Biggs in the seventh round of their Albert Hall bout . |
14 | A young woman going to buy material for her Salwar Kamiz in Bradford or Newham would almost invariably be accompanied by her mother or husband or cousin or at least a friend . |
15 | An extraordinarily high proportion of Milton scholars have chosen to disregard these truths about their subject , and have decided that because Milton was on the side of the regicides this made him a revolutionary and , because a revolutionary , therefore a man of the Left , perhaps even an agonized Maminst , or at least a sympathizer with the Diggers and Levellers of his own day . |
16 | Figures for America 's total current account ( to be released next month ) may even show a small surplus , or at least a rough balance — thanks partly to payments by foreign governments towards the cost of the Gulf war . |
17 | would give selected staff a London training , to be followed , if you were lucky , by a London job — at Euston , or King 's Cross , or at least a post in one of the large cities , at Snow Hill , Crewe or even Edinburgh . |
18 | The 1966 official report into his subsequent escape has some incredibly tedious and unconvincing arguments as to why Blake was not moved to a high , or at least a higher , security prison such as Birmingham . |
19 | They seized the opportunity for independence or at least a new bargain with Moscow — regardless of whatever views might be held by the silent masses . |
20 | Equally , many people , including owners , developers and even some planners , continue to believe that it is only the exterior of the building , or at least a grade II building , that is protected by listing . |
21 | In the middle of Bangalore , as you thread through a jungle of exotic trees and overgrown ornamental gardens , cross long neglected croquet lawns , tennis courts and disused summer houses , you are confronted with Windsor Castle , or at least a very passable facsimile locked up and in pawn to the Government to pay Royal debts . |
22 | If there has n't been an historic massacre there , then somebody ought to organise one , or at least a bit of a tiff , to do justice to its shadowy , sombre sentinels of cliffs . |
23 | One must also accept that the programmer of the cells had a different logic from ours , or at least a curious sense of humour . |
24 | You can seek help with it in a number of ways : there are your own staff and possibly other work colleagues ; and there may be a personnel department or at least a person with some training in this area . |
25 | But many managers do not have such a background ; for them the need to think quantitatively is sometimes alien , or at least a strain . |
26 | We have reached the occasion where an individual receiving publicity in one field is thought to be an expert , or at least a saleable item , in all others . |
27 | At the end of 1981 the government finally gave way , or at least a little bit . |
28 | In ideal circumstances a son or daughter may be able to provide a granny flat or at least a bedsitting-room which the older person can call their own and where they can have some personal furniture and possessions as well as privacy . |
29 | There is a certain dishonesty , or at least a limitation of truth , in presenting only historical facts . |
30 | There are , of course , invisible aspects that make a warren , or at least a section of it , impossible . |