Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning the knob left or right rotates the bearing scale . |
| 2 | The second theme that I 'd like to deal with which more or less incorporates the third is the theme of people changing as well as how appearances can be deceiving . |
| 3 | A score of seven or less suggests the need for a substantial revision of Goal 3 . |
| 4 | Or so says the North Korean delegation leader , Li Han Bok . |
| 5 | Or so says The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook ( Grafton Books , £4.99 ) . |
| 6 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
| 7 | Or so runs the common accusation . |
| 8 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 9 | Certainly a reading of the soil conservation literature through seventy years or so exposes the lack of substantive progress in the identification of the problems and even the technical solutions ( with the possible exception of the demonstration of the importance of rainsplash in soil erosion ) . |
| 10 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 11 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 12 | Erm , what other factor , other than whether they have waiver of premium or not affects the allocation to units . |
| 13 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
| 14 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 15 | Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties . |
| 16 | The first question is whether the FSA expressly or impliedly authorises the modification of the private law rights and duties of customers and firms regulated by SROs or the SIB . |
| 17 | Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people . |
| 18 | Secondly , where the offeror expressly or implicitly waives the need for the acceptance to be communicated to him , the acceptance will take effect when the acceptor does whatever act is necessary to indicate his acceptance . |
| 19 | It is an all too common situation that the advisor miscalculates or simply forgets the relevant time limit within which the application must be made . |
| 20 | In May 1986 the spokesman of the resistance coalition proclaimed that any form of international guarantee which directly or indirectly recognises the Kabul regime would be unacceptable . |
| 21 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 22 | The FMLN should ‘ publicly renounce all violent action that directly or indirectly affects the civilian population ’ , the accord said . |
| 23 | Essentially , this either bungs the whole output through the effects loop ( good if you 're using EQs , gates or compressors ) or else splits the output in two , sending one half past the effects loop and straight to the power stage ( best , apparently , for when you have a multi-processor in the loop ) . |
| 24 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |
| 25 | A pointer is a simple data type , consisting of an unbounded set of values , which addresses or otherwise indicates the location of a variable of a given type . |