Example sentences of "or [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toxic algae has previously been confined to lowland shallow lakes surrounded either by an increasing population or intensively farmed land . |
| 2 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 3 | But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates . |
| 4 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if two components are to relate in some way to provide a desired function , it must take place in an intersection zone ( which includes touching areas — zones of zero depth or wholly inserted spaces ) . |
| 6 | However , the child may have problems in getting about easily without bumping into things , and stairs or badly lit corridors can be hazardous . |
| 7 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 8 | Every ad is a fresh chance to make a blunder which opponents can seize on ; a badly conceived or badly produced advertisement or party political broadcast can alienate voters . |
| 9 | Under the reforms the FDA will continue to use its own inspectors to review innovative or badly needed drugs , but will use outside contractors ( from the pharmaceutical industry ) to review more routine products such as antibiotics . |
| 10 | The program can be configured for left or right handed players at the press of key and also provides a tuning facility via the PC speaker . |
| 11 | Do you want left handed ones or right handed ones ? |
| 12 | Although sequencing errors may occur as a result of either left or right sided lesions ( Kim , Royer , Bonstelle and Boller , 1980 ) it is generally held that left hemisphere damage more frequently leads to impairment . |
| 13 | According to Annett ( 1975 ) the incidence of left or right sided speech representation among sinistrals should be considered a function of the proportion of sinistrals in the population at large . |
| 14 | In a study of metal development such as this it is essential to examine datable or chronologically ordered artefacts . |
| 15 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 16 | The emphasis is placed upon the use of personal and professional skills , and taking all possible steps to protect staff in situations where physical or verbally expressed aggression is likely to arise . |
| 17 | In the North Isle of the Parish church of Newport painell in Buckinghamshire , in the yeare 1619 was found the body of a man whole and perfect ; laid downe , or rather leaning downe , North , and South : all the concauous parts of his body , and the hollownesse of euery bone , as well ribs as other , were filled vp with sollid lead . |
| 18 | USL , or rather OSF founder Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes AG , which did the port , is using OSF 's DCE 1.0.1 for both the early access code and the OEM kits scheduled to become generally available in January . |
| 19 | A blonde woman fashionably dressed in half-mourning , wearing a violet gown , her hair dressed high under a huge picture hat trimmed with a bird of paradise in full flight , rose to meet them , or rather to meet Dr Neil . |
| 20 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 21 | Similar studies have also been conducted with children attending pre-school play-groups and nursery schools , where the caretakers have been either voluntary helpers or professionally trained nurses and teachers ( Wells 1981 ; Wood et al . |
| 22 | Helping the patient to modify such attitudes may sometimes be necessary before he is able to change his behaviour or effectively pursue tasks necessary to achieve his chosen goals . |
| 23 | Indeed production for the market , as a purpose taking priority over any other , is widely evident in each phase , though there are many examples of producers struggling against or effectively ignoring market trends . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , keep in mind that results derived for stationary or uniformly moving bodies will not necessarily apply when the body is accelerated . |
| 25 | Sometimes the album format can be tiresome but in this case the paperback book has been ideally balanced with previously unpublished or rarely seen pictures and an excellent array of maps and other illustrations . |
| 26 | In the past the electorate had had their say by holding accountable , either centrally elected or locally elected officials . |
| 27 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |
| 28 | Whether they can be mapped seismically within or below thrust sheets is more of a problem , but it is one that the industry seems confident of defeating in other parts of the world . |
| 29 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 30 | Therefore , he needed third place or better to hurdle Norman 's total of $1,165,477 . |