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

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1 An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct .
5 What the movies taught Welford Beaton was ‘ we are not interested in average things , whether animate or inanimate — we are interested in anything in the degree that it is above or below the average ’ .
6 We then sequenced parasite DNA from nine Gambian isolates ( Fig. 2 , legend ) : in each , the ls6 epitope was identical to the published sequence , indicating that it is largely or completely conserved in this population .
7 Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist .
8 To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised .
9 They imply that it is psychologically or biologically natural to recognize and perhaps to rank these differences .
10 He rang me up last night to say that he is more or less confined to barracks now in the evening now that Phil is home .
11 Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about
12 No I 'm s what I 'm saying is how would you know if someone 's in or out ?
13 And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . "
14 Rex and Moore 's classification was based upon research in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham , and it is more or less time-specific to the mid-1960s and applicable to medium-to large-sized cities .
15 Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining .
16 When the ferret is re-entered he will either kill another rabbit if it is there or , if it is tucked up , he will scrap away at its hindquarters .
17 you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever
18 Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still .
19 There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other .
20 He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’
21 I 'll give you the cast list but it is more or less the same as last time .
22 It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey .
23 ( Kelly 's more sophisticated approach gives figures between about 5 per cent and 10 per cent E. ) In a way it does not matter very much if our figure is not very accurate because it is seldom or never reached when testing real materials in bulk .
24 Such archived information is frequently used in research because it is more or less free ; but , to avoid fallacious conclusions arising from what is usually called secondary analysis , we must be prepared to think critically about the source , reliability and consistency of the data involved .
25 The vehicle must move while he is in or on it : Diggin ( 1980 ) 72 Cr App R 204 ( CA ) .
26 ‘ I always know whether he 's there or not .
27 However small it was ( and whether it is just or not ) , I have felt over the years that the Halton experience has enabled me ( despite my background ) to bridge the gap between those far off days , and reaching the rank of sergeant pilot , and the mid-war years when , in a few months , there was swift passage through the roles of flight commander , squadron commander , staff officer and station commander .
28 ( 2 ) The consumption or reception of a text may or may not be auratic , depending on whether it is individually or collectively consumed , or whether the audience views the cultural object in a state of immersion or distraction .
29 And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens .
30 Whether it is so or not is a question of construction of the particular statute concerned .
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