Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He dedicated books to L. Censorinus , consul 149 , and to the poet Lucilius : he praised or perhaps adulated Scipio Aemilianus about 140 . |
2 | Practical consciousness describes the occasions when a person knows about the situation he or she is in , and how to behave appropriately , but expresses this in actions or perhaps clichéd words . |
3 | The man either feared or greatly respected Michael Collins . |
4 | For example , strong tea , coffee , alcohol , fruit juice or highly spiced dishes can bring on Cystitis attacks or make them worse . |
5 | Avoid , dilute or try to cut down on liquids or foods which aggravate your Cystitis , such as alcohol , strong tea , coffee , fruit juices or highly spiced dishes . |
6 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
7 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
8 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
9 | Well I think you know , you , you , you , it was an honest answer to , to both questions , cos they did n't say do you smoke a pipe , that you smoke you know or whatever or just said cigarettes . |
10 | Between 1962 and 1976 breeding was established , or probably took place , regularly in 17 areas holding between 20 and 25 pairs . |
11 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
12 | 450g/1lb leeks , trimmed , sliced and freshly cooked 1 × 113g/4oz can green chillis in brine for Mexican cooking 25g/1oz butter 3 cloves garlic , crushed or finely chopped 225g/8oz cream cheese salt and pepper 1 × 5ml/tsp paprika watercress to garnish |
13 | And he had never yet directly addressed Melanie by her name or even acknowledged Victoria 's presence . |
14 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
15 | Another nanny beat Diana on the head with a wooden spoon if she was naughty or alternatively banged Charles and Diana 's heads together . |
16 | Subsequent reports indicated that the IAEA in a separate classified report to the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar had identified around 12 companies , mostly German , which had directly or indirectly supplied Iraq with nuclear-weapons related material . |
17 | Here the teacher needs the ability to call on different levels of presentation — graded illustrations or examples or maybe graded presentations from pictures through to other more abstract notations . |
18 | When he started writing , it was the fashion to pretend that they were happy shepherds and shepherdesses , who were always dancing , or anyhow had hearts of gold . |
19 | My parents once or twice mentioned Fatty Arbuckle , seemingly a Hollywood scandal before I was born . |
20 | The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief . |
21 | Sometimes she managed a rare steak or else ate salad and ice-cream . |
22 | Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions . |
23 | Thus at the top and bottom of the scale all is well , be it at Sheffield , Wakefield or newly amalgamated Roundhay and Headingley , now in the shape of the new Leeds club — or , at the other end , such as Yorkshire Copper Works , Wath upon Dearne or Wetherby . |
24 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
25 | Outskirters seldom or never saw lettuce . |