Example sentences of "as [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes . |
| 2 | Thus this in its turn can be spread as thickly or as thinly as one 's intuitions require and therefore used in defence of competing practical positions , most notably in the debates over abortion or the environment . |
| 3 | To inform the courtof any potential parties notified as above or impossible to contact and anyone who may wish to be granted party status . |
| 4 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 5 | Power levels control the amount of microwave energy entering the oven , so food can be cooked as quickly or as slowly as you like . |
| 6 | Starting was as fraught as ever or even more so because of large craft wanting to come through the start line but it must be said that the cruiser operators were generally very cooperative throughout the race . |
| 7 | I have to say that I can not at present conceive of any circumstances in which this would be other than an abuse of power as directly or indirectly requiring the practitioner to act contrary to the fundamental duty which he owes to his patient . |
| 8 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 9 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 10 | Thus it can flow upwards , as well as downwards or sideways , just like water in the plumbing system of a house . |
| 11 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 12 | Around us in the middle distance , which is as near or far as anywhere else seems to get , lie other havens of plaster and flora . |
| 13 | Instead of a flat board , the artwork was mounted on ‘ easels ’ , giant panes of glass , 5 ½ x 12 feet ( 1.7 x 3.7m ) , which moved to and fro on tracks , as well as sideways or up and down . |
| 14 | But this does not permit us to regard the Englishmen as solely or by choice specialists in spinets . |
| 15 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 16 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 17 | Even when feminist psychology deals with class differences , it often reproduces conventional psychology 's concentration on areas which dominant discourses of class see as important , like sexuality , and attitudes to success ( Rainwater 1972 , Weston and Mednick 1972 ) , and proves unable to see working-class subjects as psychologically or socially different from each other . |
| 18 | But psychology still treats ‘ race ’ differences as culturally or even biologically absolute categories , and neglects the social and historical relations in which they are embedded . |
| 19 | Guardianship should be either to social services as now or to hospital managers . |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , the means are conceived as really or probably existing , then the speaker feels that there is something real occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event , and so uses to , as in ( 37 ) and ( 38 ) above . |
| 21 | The remaining three departments do not use libraries as regularly or frequently as this . |
| 22 | This has the advantage over the previous two strategies of allowing people to leave relatively undistorted their awareness of the complexity of the situation and of their own fallibility , but at the expense of construing themselves as partially or completely powerless . |
| 23 | Even for those items that are designated relevant , some may be judged to be highly relevant , whilst others may be regarded as partially or only marginally relevant . |
| 24 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |
| 25 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 26 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 27 | No Prime Minister has enjoyed this twice-weekly brains trust — and Margaret Thatcher was no exception — but few Prime Ministers did it as well or as consistently . |
| 28 | Yates , 25 later this month , has been tracked by a number of top clubs , including both Liverpool and Spurs , but manager Neil Warnock yesterday admitted : ‘ His injury is not responding as well or as quickly as we had thought . |
| 29 | ‘ Hence , when money wages are rising , workers may , rightly or wrongly , credit such rises to unions and hope that by beginning or continuing to support them they will do as well or even better in the future ’ ( Bain and Elsheikh , 1976 , p. 64 ) . |
| 30 | One person in five , mainly in the big cities , bought a locally published morning paper as well or instead . |