Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They argued some more while I poured out more Slammers , or rather Melanie argued and Carol grunted occasionally . |
| 32 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 33 | Granted , many of their observations are fragmentary , confined to particular social groups , most commonly the gentry and clergy , vagabonds and beggars , and directed more to their conduct ( or rather misconduct ) than to anything else . |
| 34 | At Moy Bridge the young fat cheery lockkeeper — or rather bridgekeeper — ‘ Only one in the country ’ , was happy to chat . |
| 35 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 36 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 37 | The future or rather fate of Gloucester rugby club could be decided at Bristol tomorrow … there are two league games to go and the cherry and whites need to win one of them to escape relegation |
| 38 | There are , of course , history books , or rather sections and chapters in books , which do focus on women . |
| 39 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 40 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 41 | Come join the poverty jet set , the generation without a name : Generation X. I 'm talking about my generation , or rather Douglas Coupland is in the hipster 's first novelette Generation X ( Abacus , £5.99 ) . |
| 42 | Anthony Troon spends St Valentine 's Day — or rather weekend — in bed with his television |
| 43 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 44 | The law does not , however , regard such societies ( unless formally incorporated ) as having any corporate personality ; it sees only individuals , owning property , it may be , in common , with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract , or rather series of contracts , to be found in the society 's rules ; for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied . |
| 45 | Back at Albert Square I hear Sharon , or rather Letitia Dean , will be playing Snow White in pantomime . |
| 46 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 47 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 48 | It did n't seem to occur to Mrs. Porter — or rather Mrs. Chalmers — ‘ |
| 49 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 50 | For Stavrogin reaches back , or rather Dostoevsky reaches back in himself , brushing against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he does so , and makes common cause with the underground man . |
| 51 | It was from here that they rang Anthony Marangos , and inspected the house , or rather château , which he had found for them in Picardy , North East France , between the towns of Arras and Amiens . |
| 52 | It could hardly be distinguished from ‘ good Pyrmont , or rather seltzer water ’ . |
| 53 | As did discipline , or rather indiscipline , where an overwhelming number of instances of indiscipline focused on boys . |
| 54 | Or rather Edward 's weakness was for married women . |
| 55 | To sum up then , according to the so-called unorthodox view , the company , or rather individuals on the conglomerate 's behalf , deals on either inside information acquired in the course of business about another company , for example , an investment banking client on the verge of announcing an increase in expected profits ; or on information ‘ leaked ’ by one arm of the conglomerate about a long or short position it has taken as market maker on specific shares and which it would like to off-load into the accounts of customers in the conglomerate 's fund management arm . |
| 56 | Hence bureaucracies are more concerned with levels of activities ( e.g. hospital beds per thousand population , teacher-pupil ratios , expenditure on school books , expenditure on welfare provision , numbers of missiles and infantry divisions , the size of police forces or standards of accommodation in prisons ) , than with output , or rather outcomes , such as health standards , educational standards , defence capability or public safety . |
| 57 | Meanwhile , in another part of the forest , or rather Palace , the soi-disant ‘ most sophisticated electorate in the world ’ , was making an equal mess of electing Labour 's leader and deputy leader . |
| 58 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 59 | Thurlstone was described in 1837 in John Holland 's Tour of the Don as ‘ a somewhat poor looking and scattered village , or rather hamlet , consisting of stone houses built , for the most part , on the left bank of the Don ’ . |
| 60 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |