Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather would be , Stu boy , but we-ell , the thing is , y'know , there 's a little thing called money , cash , geld , spondooliks , like , whereof which I have not got . ’ |
| 2 | The verderers had horses and within an hour or so could be carrying him back to some village outside the forest where he would have attention . |
| 3 | Economy of miles per gallon is apparently possible , but an average of mpg or so could be realistic . |
| 4 | IT 'S the office party season and the next week or so will be spent drinking , eating and dancing to excess . |
| 5 | Net proceeds of $5m or so will be used to repay debt . |
| 6 | I think it ought to be made clear that the the voices that you can hear , or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television . |
| 7 | ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal . |
| 8 | The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) . |
| 9 | The lower 2 inches or so can be sharpened , to almost a knife edge . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it has been said that virtually all the extinctions of the last million years or so can be blamed , with fair confidence , on the intelligence ( or lack of it ) of Homo sapiens . |
| 11 | In laying out a chord which covers a wide range the bottom two octaves or so should be less densely populated with notes than the higher altitudes . |
| 12 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 13 | RANDOM Century Audiobooks offer two-cassette abridged readings of books which have been or shortly will be in the public eye — prize-winners , high-profile new publications , books newly made into films — and the company set their readers high standards . |
| 14 | He described the views of some American politicians that ‘ Nicaragua threatens US national security and that there are , or shortly will be , Soviet military bases there ’ as ‘ too fanciful ’ to merit much attention . |
| 15 | Turning now to the issue of occupational differentiation we can see that those occupations which are generally accorded the title of professions base their claims to special status on a number of grounds which together or separately might be used by any other occupational group . |
| 16 | GCSE passes at grade C or above will be regarded as equivalent to GCE ‘ O ’ level passes . |
| 17 | The staff of any organisation are its best ambassadors or conversely may be its worst . |
| 18 | That such a choice between working emotionally or technically can be made is useful for teachers to be aware of . |
| 19 | I do n't think I 'm fully formed or ever will be , but my basic creative journey is now self-perpetuating . ’ |
| 20 | But if we begin with the assumption , say , that there is at least one star in the heavens that never has been , or ever will be , discovered or talked about , then evidently no meaningful let alone true singular proposition can be produced in support of such an assumption , for no such object can be named . |
| 21 | Failure to recognize and to allow for this may explain why , even after nine years of Thatcherite ‘ political clout ’ , doubt still exists about the extent of real cultural change within Whitehall and whether ‘ lasting reforms ’ have , or ever will be , achieved . |
| 22 | ‘ I wonder whether I ever can or ever will be able to love . |
| 23 | This idea has often been ridiculed by anthropologists who point out that there is no record or suggestion that there ever was , or ever could be , a stage of total sharing and total freedom of access by everybody at any time to anything . |
| 24 | Although he 'd written that I was not a fantasy for him , he had dreamed me , written me , into a woman far less flawed than I am , or ever could be . |
| 25 | Now , what 's being said here in that particular sentence , is that there are obviously going to be , or possibly could be occasions when er , the Police Authority has er , an overspend , which is an immediate problem for instance , on pensions , and you 've heard the er , Fire Service Chief talking about his problems . |
| 26 | We thought that Jerusalem sooner or later would be an international city . |
| 27 | I thought that my conduct , dress , attitude were used as a measure of what the other young women of my family were or later would be allowed to do . |
| 28 | If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler . |
| 29 | The current Building Regs are the 1985 edition : books published in 1986 or later should be reasonably accurate . |
| 30 | The member country that chooses to exercise its monetary autonomy and pursue a monetary policy independently of its partner union members , sooner or later will be forced to effect an exchange rate change . |