Example sentences of "or [adv] [conj] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 2 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 3 | If it does so the provisions of section 80A apply instead of those in subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of section 80 and the authority can be given for any fixed period or indefinitely though it can be revoked at any time . |
| 4 | I mean eventually eventually , sooner or later and it might be later if somebody else will still it has to come out of the profit margin . |
| 5 | It is not enough to show that a screening test detects disease early , or even that it will probably save some lives . |
| 6 | Or even that it could be transferred to your ownership . ’ |
| 7 | Thus our very existence could be regarded as a confirmation of grand unified theories , though a qualitative one only ; the uncertainties are such that one can not predict the numbers of quarks that will be left after the annihilation , or even whether it would be quarks or antiquarks that would remain . |
| 8 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 9 | There is a famous story from the fifties about the discovery by nutritionists that you were better off eating the box than the cornflakes inside it , and I was wondering hopefully whether it might be better to eat my column than to read it , or alternatively whether it might be toxic . |
| 10 | As foil conducts electricity , it 's important that this paper is never hung behind a light switch or power socket , or anywhere where it could come in contact with electricity . |