Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] or " in BNC.

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1 That work should not be done before 7am or after 7pm or during school hours .
2 Compacts are all about the celebration of success whether it occurs in the fourth or fifth years , sixth form or in further or higher education .
3 According to this particular result , the required poles of are given by or since where or 243.43° .
4 Oriental rugs can also be split into four broad categories which relate to their overall characteristics and appearance , rather than to where or by whom they were made .
5 In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action .
6 It is a good idea to turn the main stopcock off and on once or twice each year to keep its mechanism free and not wait for an emergency to discover that it has jammed open .
7 But in either or any case their verses must surely confound the French theorists : the poem as a construction of words must be — at least when the words come from such a charged area of human experience as these do — a construction also of sentiments and ideas .
8 They were aware of a low rumble , a granite growl , though whence it came , whether from above or below them , was not evident .
9 Society is entitled by means of its laws to protect itself from dangers , whether from within or without .
10 Infection in surgery , whether from within or outside the patient , is a constant worry .
11 In examining a merger the Commission is required to take account of the need to maintain and develop effective competition with the EC and of actual or potential competition , whether from inside or outside the EC .
12 External control , whether from abroad or from the South , was widely seen again in the later 1980s as a threat to the North .
13 Prefixes are not always used , and a direct inquiry should be made if there is any doubt as to where or by whom a particular rug was made .
14 Now it 's uncertain as to when or if Robin Pask will stand trial , The judge Mr Justice Swinton-Thomas ordered that Pask be admitted to a hospital under the mental health Act , but Leeds Crown Court heard that he was obsessed with thoughts of suicide and may never be well enough to return to the dock .
15 But there is no unequivocal statement as to why or how his life took a firm direction at this time .
16 It may be a choice as to whether to do X or not , or as to whether to do X , Y , or Z or as to how or when to do X.
17 One of the main purposes of o of a consortium is actually looking at the health needs erm it 's impressions that I 've I actually got o on a number of occasions that I 've er I think involvement in assessing health needs but I 've actually answered anywhere er , and I 'd very interested as to how or what kind of input erm we will be looking to on that ?
18 It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators .
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