Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 2 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 3 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 4 | You look for ways to ensure that either it can be regularly dealt with by someone else or at least that it should reach you partly or virtually completed . |
| 5 | If teachers are the key to success of the information skills development than they will require convincing that the new approach can work in practice or at least that there is a body of sound research which proves the efficacy of information skills in the curriculum . |
| 6 | It seems that writing and translating is temporarily effective , or at least that the Beggar 's use for an introduction to the poem is of no further service , because no further meetings between them are recorded . |
| 7 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 8 | ( Note : Do ensure that you have carefully marked the Source disk or at least that it is ‘ write ’ protected . |
| 9 | Despite the safeguards in the Police and Crime Evidence Act 1984 in England , one can not complacently assume that all is well or at least that the service given by police surgeons could not be improved . |
| 10 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |