Example sentences of "or [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All or nothing 's more our style , would n't you say , Robyn ? ’ |
| 2 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 3 | ‘ Either I am pardoned , or I am not . ’ |
| 4 | People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure . |
| 5 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 6 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 7 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 8 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 9 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 10 | or I 'm just seeing what he 'd said |
| 11 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 12 | Edward 's ‘ forthright ’ , breathy style lends itself naturally to blues ( Mississippi Lad or I 'm not your fool any more , also featuring Waits on vocals , and the soft and low Ballad for a Bronze Beauty ) , but less well to the rest of the album , parts of which also have an oddly out of character Brazilian flavour . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’ |
| 14 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 15 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 16 | MICK QUINN has handed Coventry an ultimatum : ‘ Meet my demands or I 'm off . ’ |
| 17 | Last night I told them over there to screw it up to two million dollars or I 'm out . |
| 18 | ‘ It was an attempt to get bigger ratings but I said Boon would have to stay with ordinary social issues or I was out . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 20 | Either Melanie pushed some part of her anatomy against my leg or I was too close to the campfire . |
| 21 | Or somebody 's not there . |
| 22 | Moon or summat were n't it ? |
| 23 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 24 | It also gave employers legal remedies against industrial action in which no dispute exists between employers and their own employees or which is not wholly or mainly about employment matters . |
| 25 | An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) . |
| 26 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 27 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 28 | We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows . |
| 29 | Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive . |
| 30 | In these cases , we may want to smooth to remove the effect of events which are unique or which are simply not the main trend in which we are interested ; it is good practice to plot the rough as well as the smooth values , to inspect exactly what has been discarded . |