Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If employees move to a part of the country where house prices are comparable or lower then the mortgage allowance scheme will not apply . |
| 2 | The landlord should either obtain from the insurers a waiver of subrogation rights as regards the tenant , any undertenant and their mortgagees , or if that is not possible or practicable then the landlord should endeavour to note their interests on the policy . |
| 3 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 4 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 5 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 6 | If the model is slain by enemy missile fire or similar then the catapult may not shoot next turn , but the model may be returned to indicate that another Doom Diver has stepped forward . |
| 7 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 8 | In the seventeenth century Russia and the Ottoman empire had seemed to many European observers not altogether dissimilar ; and of the two the latter appeared until the 1680s or 1690s clearly the more powerful . |
| 9 | For example , if you constrain the lines to be only horizontal or vertical then the line joining the objects will be ‘ steppy ’ |
| 10 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 11 | If the reward is unattractive or insufficient then the individual may not perform at all . |
| 12 | If these could be found to be overwhelmingly large or small then the results could be of use in the framing of policy . |
| 13 | He then explained that ‘ … what we are pronouncing are not the three names of God ( or worse still the names of three gods , as some would suggest ) but we are pronouncing three aspects or qualities of the Deity which are well-known and used , in Christianity and other religions , namely His Eternal Existence , His Transcendence and His Omnipotence . ’ |
| 14 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 15 | I 'm all for loud singing and opposition-baiting at matches and other times , but I do n't normally Do The Dambusters , or worse still the ‘ who 's that dying on the runway ’ stuff . |
| 16 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |
| 17 | 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force . |
| 18 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 19 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 20 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 21 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 22 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
| 23 | A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves . |