Example sentences of "or [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been an involvement in something sufficiently profitable or menacing or both to lead somebody to murder . |
| 2 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 3 | Usually white , usually Italian or German and always served at least eight degrees above room temperature , its only merit is as an antidote to … |
| 4 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 5 | He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval . |
| 6 | For example , subjects are often required to decide whether two stimuli are the same or different and then to respond on one key for " same " matches and on a second key for " different " matches ; or else to respond to instances of one kind of match and withhold responding to instances of the other kind ( a go/no.go discrimination ) . |
| 7 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 8 | makes a statement , promise or forecast which he knows to be misleading , false or deceptive or dishonestly conceals any material facts ; or |
| 9 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
| 10 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 11 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 12 | He married a Miss Ridings of Cork in 1847 or 1848 and then emigrated to New Zealand , where he died in Auckland 2 December 1859 . |
| 13 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 14 | It runs under Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and so needs a 386 machine and 2 Mbytes or more of RAM and a full installation requires 15Mbytes of space on your hard disk . |
| 15 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 16 | Even if the individual librarian is supported or protected or even threatened by the professional association , this seems to be an inadequate defence against censorship . |
| 17 | The pitch will be in use from 10am to 4pm , which could force one hockey semi-final to be staged as late as 4–30pm , or one or both to go elsewhere . |
| 18 | It is essential for the efficiency of a modern financial system to analyse all the securities traded in it , since only then is it possible to determine whether securities are fairly priced or whether they are underpriced or overpriced and hence give rise to profitable trading possibilities . |
| 19 | Sit down children d' you want to get married or divorced or just sue each other ? |
| 20 | I thought it must be a visit to his lawyer or somesuch and politely asked no more . |
| 21 | And if you 're old or poor or handicapped or just think there should be more to life than this — then go to hell . |
| 22 | That is , if a group announces that it will organise a counter demonstration in opposition to one of which the police have been notified under section 11 , the police can if necessary subject the late comers to conditions imposed under sections 12 or 14 that effectively prevent the two groups from clashing , or permitting them to meet only in carefully controlled conditions . |
| 23 | So an organisation may work very well if its people are motivated or skilled but suddenly run into bad trouble if the level of motivation or skill should fall . |
| 24 | Er I mean they there were one or two that just went on literally for days and days and days and days . |
| 25 | a new new car for the wife every year , you know , all these sort of frivolities , and then say , then what can you live without , and when you start crossing them out , there 's only one or two that actually go out . |
| 26 | The fan thinks for a second or two and then says ‘ OK where 's the bucket and spade ’ . ’ |
| 27 | He stayed at the table talking with Mahmoud for another moment or two and then went out into the street . |
| 28 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 29 | Elinor thought for a minute or two and then made her decision . |
| 30 | It is better to do one or two and then opt for more sensible distances . ’ |