Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's doing well , he had a , , I think he could have been Berlin or somewhere in Germany , it 's called . |
| 2 | erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . |
| 3 | I might find the odd partridge fight surviving in Lahore or somewhere in Pakistan , they thought , but not in Delhi . |
| 4 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 5 | More likely you rot as a tutor in High Wycombe or somewhere like Hatherley School of Fine Art , teaching the talentless children of the rich . |
| 6 | Many Koreans went voluntarily or forcibly to Japan , mostly to engage in the most menial of jobs . |
| 7 | Within their concept of stress or strain — often used either together or interchangeably by respondents , carers could include anxiety , fear , irritation , tension , despondency , etc . |
| 8 | Articles made largely or wholly of gold , silver or other precious metals . |
| 9 | But the social relations of artists involved partly or wholly in commodity production are in fact highly variable . |
| 10 | He spoke at its election meetings and worked actively on its behalf , or rather on behalf of his own views which he sought to spread through the party . |
| 11 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 12 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 13 | Diférance is the force behind , or rather in language ; it produces the effects of difference which make up language . |
| 14 | It does not matter whether a high-level language system is implemented mostly be hardware or mostly by software , provided the system hides any lower levels from the programmer . |
| 15 | But it is easy to map out some of the important ‘ moments ’ ( though they can not always be dated precisely or uniformly across regions and social groups ) One would be the take-up , by former illiterates , of broadsides ; these had a printed text but , almost always , simply stipulated the use of an orally transmitted tune . |
| 16 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Many of the broadcasters and journalists had been trained either in Europe or locally by Europeans , and many also looked to Europe as their guide to what broadcasting and journalism were for . |
| 18 | We got it there or thereabouts for sales executives right ? the area development exec job but we did n't get it right we were two grand adrift quite clearly demonstrable evidence that we were two grand adrift on that pay and I 've asked now to agree to upping the pay level and if he does we might get some decent people and then we worry about the ramifications of that afterwards , yeah ? |
| 19 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 20 | If you have the country parks and already there is no hunting on those parts open to the public there 's just about another hundred acres , that 's the Victoria Park or thereabouts in total . |
| 21 | I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage . |
| 22 | Fees are normally paid monthly or quarterly in advance , while expenses are charged out each month after invoices from suppliers come in to you . |
| 23 | It will then be paid four-weekly or quarterly in arrears . |
| 24 | The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest . |
| 25 | Rightly or wrongly for instance , most of us are happy about the properties of rigid rods of iron , and we are prepared to use them as units of explanation of more complex machines that contain them . |
| 26 | The pitch shifter is particularly impressive , offering a full octave above or below in semitone steps . |
| 27 | Dr David Baker , managing director of Sigma Projects , said the Russian pictures are the best available , with resolution down to 5-10 metres , or better with computer enhancement . |
| 28 | This application for 286 processors or better with Windows 3.1 is designed to simplify data collection . |
| 29 | ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan . |
| 30 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |