Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 2 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 3 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 4 | I half-expect to hear that I was mocked or stepped over , or raped and left to die . |
| 5 | As a teenager , I often felt impelled to imagine that I was running or flying with the wind in the dark . |
| 6 | She never showed that she was hurt or angry or jealous or anything . |
| 7 | The rules which apply to such cases and can be derived from the cases are summed up in Chitty on Contracts as follows : ( 1 ) If the person receiving the document did not know that there was writing or printing on it , he is not bound . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) If the party tendering the document did what was reasonably sufficient to give the other party notice of the conditions , and if the other party knew that there was writing or printing on the document , but did not know that it contained conditions , then the conditions will become the terms of the contract between them . |
| 9 | a statement that it was made or subsisted during the year the names of the directors and connected persons concerned principal terms |
| 10 | However , as an economist and Labour supporter , I was never convinced by its campaign , or felt that it was winning or deserved to win . |
| 11 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |
| 12 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 13 | It was ordered that this memorandum should be entered in the minutes , but there is no indication that it was considered or discussed . |
| 14 | it was always easier to sent fast than it was to receive or read the code . |
| 15 | And if the latter , was it a blame game that he was playing or some other sort of game ? |
| 16 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’ |
| 18 | Erm and I was thinking or Desmond was thinking of a bell in your |
| 19 | He looked at me uncertainly , fondling and patting his hair as usual , unsure if I was joking or not . |
| 20 | He managed somehow to get under my skin , tangle me up inside so that I did n't know if I was coming or going . |
| 21 | She did n't know if she was rocking or if it was the room . |
| 22 | Huy was not sure if she was lying or not , but she read his thoughts and continued , ‘ Even if I knew it I would n't give it to you — and you may have enough clout to shut me down , but even Merymose could n't reach high enough to touch him . ’ |
| 23 | We will have a look to see if you was watching or giggling with your mate next door . |
| 24 | That a prohibition thus independently justifiable works out to affect different people differently is no reason to condemn it as non-neutral , provided it was instituted or continues for ( something like ) the reasons which justify it … similarly with the prohibitions and enforcements of the minimal state . |
| 25 | Then if you had a puncture and it was raining or something . |
| 26 | I passed a telephone box — opened the door to see if it was vandalized or smelt of sick or dog-muck — it was OK . |
| 27 | According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary . |
| 28 | I do n't know if it was pressed or not , hello |
| 29 | I did n't know if he was armed or … |
| 30 | The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man . |