Example sentences of "or [prep] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only person he does n't learn from , or at least so it seems , is himself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | But by far the majority perish , before they are even hatched — or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I guess … because Galileo did it , or at least if what I know about him is true , this must be true . |
| 13 | Some biologists regard this as the only , or at least as the predominant , mechanism of speciation , whereas others take a more pluralist view . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Against this background of a wife who was willing to work on the market , the choice to work at home must involve a higher ( or at least as high a ) level of utility . |
| 17 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 18 | We expect some firm proposals from the Minister tonight , or at least when we debate this matter in Committee , that will assure the House that something will be done about this very dangerous situation . |
| 19 | When that aim is interpreted , or at least when it comes out of the other end of the machine , it results in the odd ex-chief executive being appointed . |
| 20 | ‘ Or at least until we 've worked out a policy . ’ |
| 21 | Without a terminating condition the search could continue indefinitely or at least until the space of hypotheses was exhausted . |
| 22 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 23 | Anyway , there 's certainly no way I 'm going to start physio on him the way things are , or at least until you or Dr Grant have given him the OK . ’ |
| 24 | Equally , sterling held up well as dealers ruled out an early cut in interest rates , or at least until the Bundesbank eventually shows its hand with some cuts of its own . |
| 25 | Britain after 1945 is full of people who live alone because they like it , or at least because they like it better than any of the available alternatives . |
| 26 | They may be played by two people , or by more than two people ; they may also be played by one person who performs both task and maintenance behaviours . |