Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
2 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
3 | Bethnal Green has many points of similarity with a village , or rather with a whole series of overlapping and interlocking villages . |
4 | Lucker stares at me or rather at a spot on the wall to the left of my head . |
5 | The answer , I imagine , is no , and the explanation is less to do with Adam Thorpe 's abilities as a novelist , or rather as a mimic , than with the particular fictional alleyway he is bent on investigating : one which , after several promising detours and badly disguised exits , shows every sign of turning into a cul-de-sac . |
6 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
7 | Not being paid by anybody else , and the housewife , you know , that are not able to leave home , or eventually in a hospital . |
8 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
9 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
10 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
11 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
12 | Erm owing to the extent Chairman and I think erm we we have established er we were happy that the the level of development er rightly or wrongly as a as a commitment is already in excess of the hundred and two hectares being spoken about . |
13 | In the ASE system of nomenclature , the oxidation number of an element in an oxoanion is sometimes used instead of or together with a prefix of suffix . |
14 | So , when acting in such a case , add to your additional enquiries made of the local authority , or better in a letter , some such enquiry as this : Is the Authority aware of any infilling or any geological stratum which might result in the instability of the foundations of any building erected on the site for which planning consent has been granted ? |
15 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
16 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
17 | Or perhaps as a regular ‘ tune-up ’ for key staff . |
18 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
19 | When working alone , or perhaps with a dog , you can flush the rabbits from their seats . |
20 | Or perhaps for a return to the first Great Awakening of the eighteenth century , when Jonathan Edwards thundered against the evils of the age . |
21 | Therefore , the company are to seek sponsorships and would welcome any enquiries now or perhaps at a later date when the industrial climate improves . |
22 | If that decision is the right one , then the spirit can progress to the next lesson ; if the person gives in to temptation , then the spirit has to be faced with that choice again and again ( either later in that same life or perhaps in a future one ) until the right decision is reached . |
23 | There are far too few illustrations for the size of the volume : ideally a dictionary of this size should contain many more , displayed in either date , alphabetical or country order , or perhaps in a comparative sequence . |
24 | While the basic aim of a service should be to provide people with ordinary homes of their own , there are many former long-term hospital patients who would not wish to live alone after many years of living in close proximity to other patients ; such people may feel more comfortable living in a three- or four-person flat or house , or perhaps in a sheltered group of flatlets where communal dining rooms and recreational facilities echo the arrangements in ordinary sheltered accommodation for elderly people . |
25 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
26 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
27 | Remember , though , that if a subject assessor refuses to certificate a module , then none of the candidates in that centre will be credited with that module until the problems are sorted out , usually by another visit by a subject assessor or perhaps by a Field Officer . ’ |
28 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
29 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
30 | And more : ‘ LEGA … represents en bloc the fourth or fifth grouping in Italy , behind IRL , ENI and Fiat , but more or less on a par with Montedison . ’ |