Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it was twice or three times in a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised . |
| 7 | They imply that it is psychologically or biologically natural to recognize and perhaps to rank these differences . |
| 8 | Perhaps the magic lay in the fact that it was either or both ? |
| 9 | His eyes rested on her , mocking her , and Folly knew that it was now or never . |
| 10 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
| 11 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only one of them , the Labyrinth at Knossos , was restored and repaired so that it could continue to use after 1470 , and it was more or less completely abandoned some ninety years later after a major fire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever |
| 17 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 18 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 19 | I 'll give you the cast list but it is more or less the same as last time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He desperately wanted to rest , but it was now or never . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The model assumes that the buyer will pass through this series of steps , whether it be consciously or unconsciously , until the purchase is ( or is not ) made . |
| 25 | The North and the South must sort this one out themselves whether it be peaceably or with the gun . |
| 26 | There are further areas which in time year will allow that trend to continue , I 'm aware of the fact that there will probably be in the course of the evening that suggest that greater efficiencies can be found in a variety of areas whether it be in or wherever else . |
| 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 . |