Example sentences of "or [adv] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should it be zero or below before they receive the small amount of assistance of £6 a week ? |
| 2 | Although my emotions were engaged , or perhaps because they were engaged , a flash of revelation lit my intellect . |
| 3 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've been besotted with each other more or less since they were children . |
| 5 | Rare , even bizarre , circumstances aside , it never profits a monopolist to do more when customers are signaling for less , or less when they are signaling for more ’ . |
| 6 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 7 | Psychoanalysts themselves undergo five sessions of analysis a week for five years or so before they can practise . |
| 8 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 9 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 10 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 11 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 12 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 13 | They hope to marry next June , or sooner if they find a house . |
| 14 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 15 | And the other one takes seventy minutes or longer if they wish to examine things . |
| 16 | It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow . |
| 17 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 18 | Many of these farm workers originally migrated from Zambia or Mozambique , but some have been in Zimbabwe for a generation or more though they have no regularized status . |
| 19 | They enjoy earthworms , shrimps and pellet food and will live for a good ten years or more if they 're cared for correctly . |
| 20 | And to an old person , ‘ setting the record straight ’ , or straight as they saw it , could be very important . |
| 21 | Patients with vomiting of food after upper gastrointestinal tract surgery should be studied if there is doubt , after an endoscopy and barium studies or both whether they have some form of mechanical obstruction , but usually they do not . |
| 22 | I had learnt during my journey in 1930 that the Danakil , or Afar as they called themselves , were divided into the Asaimara or Red Men , who comprised the tribes of noble descent , and the Adoimara or White Men . |
| 23 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 24 | Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths . |
| 25 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 26 | If they are not a vocal species , or even if they are , their smell or other characteristics may also be different . |
| 27 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 28 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 29 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 30 | I am not sure if they have been deleted , or even if they were ever available for the C64 , but is there somewhere I can write to get my dream games ? |