Example sentences of "or [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal-democracy is found only in countries whose economic system is wholly or predominantly that of capitalist enterprise . |
| 2 | With all eyes — or rather all lenses — on her , Bardot soon put her emancipated amorality into practice . |
| 3 | In Schopenhauerian terms , this means that music becomes will , or rather that music , which can not be will , makes its appearance as will . |
| 4 | Okay , secondly and more importantly eight B the idea that syntactic and semantic structure are the same , or rather that semantics just works over the syntactic structure , erm that would help solve the acquisition problem . |
| 5 | Or rather that is not , in the first instance , what I asked myself , because I was driven to the view — incorrectly — that there could be no link between the two crimes . |
| 6 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 7 | Such a breach not only leaves the company ( or rather those individuals who act on its behalf ) open to criminal liability under the CSA 1985 and civil liability under the FSA 1986 , but also to a claim by a corporate client for breach of its obligation of confidence . |
| 8 | Although the powers of intervention contained in the Act remain in the hands of the Secretary of State , or rather those of S.I.B . |
| 9 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 10 | Since then , there 's also been erm , consultation as to whether that principle , or rather those extensions should be implied =plied to your other pensionable employee groups , i.e. teachers and firemen . |
| 11 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 12 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 13 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 14 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 15 | Or rather this morning . |
| 16 | It did n't work but we all — or rather most of us — lost our sleep to fly in Airforce Two . |
| 17 | This would then mean that there should be 12 teams or thereabouts each dealing with a particular geographic area of the Region for all aspects of Council Tax . |
| 18 | Or perhaps all those U-turns left him feeling dizzy . |
| 19 | Evan Campbell , or John Hay , or Laughland Vass , or perhaps all three Highlander guides , knew that milk could be had from the Macraes of Auchnasheal ; the travellers sat down outside a house and were brought wooden dishes — Johnson calls them ‘ pails ’ — of milk . |
| 20 | Or perhaps all Australians were like that , took an uncommon interest in everyone 's affairs . |
| 21 | Picture book Aspen ( or perhaps that should be autograph book ? ) . |
| 22 | There was quite a crowd at the bank of the loch and I wondered why they were all there , whether they were genuinely concerned about you or perhaps that death had some awful attraction for them . |
| 23 | They explored the drawing-room next — or perhaps that is too formal a name for the large and very cheerful room on the other side of the hall . |
| 24 | Or perhaps that 's why he goes after the women . |
| 25 | Or perhaps that 's the point : the phrase is the same because the experience is the same . |
| 26 | Or perhaps that was earlier , surely , much earlier than piano bars , please . |
| 27 | Perhaps Mr Robinson had learnt something from them , or perhaps that woman ( I can not call her a wife ) had told him everything . |
| 28 | It also seems to provide a rather better description of how to create and modify patterns that the original Illustrator 88 manual — or perhaps that 's just because the subject is being tackled in context rather than as an academic exercise . |
| 29 | Or perhaps that was only his imagination . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you think your grey … ’ my mother would say to her , ‘ or perhaps that nice beige facecloth coat-dress … ’ |