Example sentences of "or [adv] it [is] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather it is proved — by sleight of hand ; for if the little scene is not momentous , how did it come to be framed , in all its sparsity , by so much white paper ? |
| 2 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Once again , the best way to open the sequence is to establish the location with a wide shot which shows the character of the setting : maybe it 's one of those idyllic places which the crowds have not yet discovered , or perhaps it is crammed with people and overlooked by tourist hotels . |
| 4 | Or so it is hoped . |
| 5 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 6 | The stories originate from Terra , the birthplace of mankind , or so it is said . |
| 7 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 8 | Or so it is reported . |
| 9 | One of the advantages of this approach , or so it is claimed , is that it enables governments to pursue policies based upon consent and voluntary cooperation and thereby to avoid both the ‘ law of the jungle ’ ( monetarism ) and the ‘ jungle of the law ’ ( statutory incomes policies ) . |
| 10 | ‘ A place to dance — or so it 's said . |
| 11 | Taken together these two indices yield much information about the abundance or scarcity of each bird , how widely or evenly it is distributed , and how numbers of any species compare with others , perhaps particularly with its near relations . |
| 12 | Lime is extensively used for agricultural purposes , especially in the parishes of Churchstoke and Chirbury , which is brought from Llanymynech , either by the Cambrian and then carted from Montgomery Station , or else it is sent via Oswestry , Shrewsbury , and Craven Arms and carted from Bishop 's Castle . |
| 13 | Eden is always somewhere else , or someone else 's — or else it is snatched away after only a moment , at most , or only distantly seen , felt or known . |