Example sentences of "or [adj] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer was it necessary or possible to tell which limb was which , which body . |
| 2 | If you are confused about what has happened or curious to know what will happen to a topic , consult the index ; if I have got it right , the index will tell you the story . |
| 3 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 4 | Having recently re-read my own , I have come to the conclusion that diaries furnish the perfect vehicle for self-deception and self-enhancement , provided that , in later years , the reader/writer is incapable of reading between the lines or unable to remember what has been left unsaid . |
| 5 | The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver . |
| 6 | Except Christie Goldsborough , who 'd sat watching them , as supercilious as if he found their accents comical or difficult to understand which , when one remembered what he must be accustomed to hearing in St Jude 's , he certainly did not . |