Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 2 | That work should not be done before 7am or after 7pm or during school hours . |
| 3 | It should be visited only before about 8am , or after 5pm when the light is at its best , and certainly could n't be photographed successfully at any other time . |
| 4 | However , if it is necessary to follow the child around from one room to another , or if it is desirable to record a child with other children or with more than one adult present , then it is advisable to use a radio microphone which can be attached to the child 's clothing . |
| 5 | Compacts are all about the celebration of success whether it occurs in the fourth or fifth years , sixth form or in further or higher education . |
| 6 | ( ii ) Nietzsche sometimes alludes to a topic without explanation in one section , but adds the necessary explanatory matter in another ( or in more than one other ) . |
| 7 | Firstly , imagine that the UK is a closed economy , with no foreign trade , with no capital flows of money to or from abroad and with no government sector . |
| 8 | According to this particular result , the required poles of are given by or since where or 243.43° . |
| 9 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 10 | Part of the proceeds of a Credit is transferred to a second beneficiary ( or to more than one second beneficiary ) who presents his documents to the advising bank whereupon the first beneficiary substitutes his invoices and claims a larger amount thus ensuring he receives his share of the proceeds . |
| 11 | The only person he does n't learn from , or at least so it seems , is himself . |
| 12 | Since the war , or at least since the post-war pattern settled into what looked like immobility round about 1950 , this had been a stony field to work in . |
| 13 | Ever since human beings first began to practise agriculture , 10 000 years ago , or at least since they learned to fertilize the fields , they have caused extra quantities of nitrogen oxides and ammonia to flow into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Traditionally , or at least since Marx , socialist thought has been dominated by the economic problems posed by capitalism , poverty , mass unemployment , squalor , instability and even the possibility of the collapse of the whole system … |
| 15 | But by far the majority perish , before they are even hatched — or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ( Note : Do ensure that you have carefully marked the Source disk or at least that it is ‘ write ’ protected . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 27 | I guess … because Galileo did it , or at least if what I know about him is true , this must be true . |
| 28 | Some biologists regard this as the only , or at least as the predominant , mechanism of speciation , whereas others take a more pluralist view . |
| 29 | And where technical qualities are very obtrusive , as in Joyce 's Ulysses , the novel is dismissed by this tradition as a ‘ dead-end , or at least as pointer to disintegration ’ ( Leavis 1962 : 36 ) . |
| 30 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |