Example sentences of "or [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal communications are either verbal or written ( including electronic ) , and are one-to-one or one-to-many . |
| 2 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 3 | ( Whether women , or gay men , want to see both , either , or neither is not an argument I want to get into here . ) |
| 4 | Children were randomly allocated to adenotonsillectomy , adenoidectomy , or neither procedure . |
| 5 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 6 | sugar or neither ? |
| 7 | And I thought well she 's got two chances that way , either I could win , or she could win , or neither of us 'll win . |
| 8 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 9 | The loss of associability suffered by the stimulus will be depend on the extent to which the stimulus , or each of its constituent elements , is able to form strong associations ( and will thus be restricted when the consequences of the stimulus change from trial to trial ) . |
| 10 | At many large computer centres they are literally costed in money ; or each user may be allotted a ration of time , measured in seconds , and a ration of space , measured in ‘ words ’ . |
| 11 | It is up to you to select how much you want to invest in your TESSA each year or each month , without putting any undue strain on your finances . |
| 12 | At the end of each week or each month the retailer ( or the accounts department , in a big firm ) totals up the petty cash paid for that period . |
| 13 | I have to acknowledge too that since you ought to be aware from your fellow 's viewpoints and incline towards their benefit as well as your own , and ought also to be aware that individuals can not benefit themselves or each other by community without agreeing on common rules , the rules you follow in acting towards your fellows should be those of your community and not of mine . |
| 14 | The absence of exact replication with most brooch types strongly suggests that each , or each pair or trio , was manufactured as required , thereby introducing a high degree of innovation . |
| 15 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 16 | Interesting results emerge when we place these ‘ players ’ — who may be individuals or organized groups — on a two-dimensional , nxn square lattice of ‘ patches ’ : each lattice-site is thus occupied either by a C or a D. In each round of our game ( or at each time step , or each generation ) , each patch-owner plays the game with its immediate neighbours . |
| 17 | Sporting stars pounded track , tennis balls or each other one minute and appeared on screen the next — or in celebrity quiz and talk shows later on . |
| 18 | No one looked anywhere but at them , not at the advertisements or each other or the tube map , but at the man and the bear . |
| 19 | When they 're still young , girls hang around bus stations , leisure centres , bus shelters or each other 's doorsteps . |
| 20 | Each period of observation or each sequence of periods of observation , possibly on different days ( or over a longer period ) will provide a longitudinal ‘ case ’ study of six pupils ' affective responses to computer-assisted learning and non-computer-assisted learning . |
| 21 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 22 | And I can approach the conference office to find out what 's here , and I can then go after each of the different categories we 're looking for , or each of the conferences . |
| 23 | Oak woodland is well known to be particularly rich in many species of bugs , thrips , aphids , beetles , gall wasps , leaf miners and moth caterpillars , all chomping away at leaves , twigs , buds or each other . |
| 24 | ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of ( a recognised self-regulating organisation ) and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal or each of his principals has accepted responsibility for his activities ; … |
| 25 | Is that done once a day or each driver ? |
| 26 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 27 | You could either use chocolate eggs , or each Brownie could decorate a hard-boiled egg ( see pages 30–31 ) . |
| 28 | If a yacht on flotilla breaks down and can not travel due to a major failure which is not your fault , and a substitute is not available , we pay for each 24 hrs or each full sailing day ( 1000 to 1700 ) the yacht is immobile . |
| 29 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 30 | Each member should take turns leading the whole session , or each session can be divided up . |