Example sentences of "or [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or rather the mid-evening of that fateful night . |
| 32 | The significance of autonomy ( or rather the threat of its loss ) in relation to crime control is generally recognised because of its association with imprisonment . |
| 33 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 34 | The neglected appearance of so much crofting land is not a reflection of current under-use , but of too intensive use in the past , when land was put under the plough , or rather the spade , which no one who had freedom of choice would ever have broken in . |
| 35 | " There 's the stuff he 's used to line his chambers with — or rather the stuff he 's thrown out when he 's put fresh bedding in — very clean creatures , badgers , and a very nice resident for your woods . |
| 36 | Strictly speaking , I should have informed the Kent police when she was fit for visitors , or rather the hospital should have . |
| 37 | It brought the house , or rather the train , down . |
| 38 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 39 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 40 | This also contravenes the model , or rather the model does not fit what common sense tells us . |
| 41 | The ego can itself be an object for libidinal attachments , as it is in narcissism , a stage in the development , or rather the starting-point for development , of every person . |
| 42 | The Akali Dal , or rather the faction of the much splintered Sikh movement which swept the November poll in Punjab , was formerly in the forefront of the campaign for a separate homeland . |
| 43 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 44 | If hamlet ( or rather the actor playing him ) , catches a frog in his throat during a soliloquy , since one is experiencing a human drama this need n't be in the least distracting — indeed the element of human fallibility and frailty thus introduced could even enhance the impact of the performance ( admittedly it could also be unintentionally quite hilarious ) ! |
| 45 | The beast , or rather the cloud of smoke , kept lunging at Little Billy , but Swan was too quick for him and jinked away every time . |
| 46 | Here comes the post , or rather the copter . |
| 47 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 48 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 49 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 50 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 51 | The hole , or rather the volume of waste material that is dug from it , has greatly bothered conservationists . |
| 52 | But puberty , or rather the onset of menstruation , changed all that . |
| 53 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 54 | Perhaps the rejection of marriage and the espousal of a profession represents a ‘ deviant career ’ for women , or perhaps the phenomenon of the obsessive , houseproud housewife could be usefully seen as a form of gender role-related deviance . |
| 55 | Or perhaps the diaphragm needs replacing . |
| 56 | Yes , she thought she would wear the black — or perhaps the strawberry crushed velvet … |
| 57 | They recognised him , or perhaps the gold band round his helmet . |
| 58 | The cost , or perhaps the choice , was to stay unmarried . |
| 59 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |
| 60 | Could it be the years of experience it takes to know where the grape is just ripe or perhaps the skill needed to reach that perfectly balanced wine . |