Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I come from there is always a war going on somewhere or other . |
| 2 | If , as was proposed , denominational schools should have a choice of status — effectively inside or outside the fully provided and supported system — what should happen in those districts where the only school was a Church school ? |
| 3 | Although this had begun as a joint Anglo-French operation , Britain had withdrawn her forces , leaving the French either to carry on alone or to withdraw . |
| 4 | The petition must state : ( i ) the name , place of residence and occupation of the debtor ; ( ii ) the names in which business is carried on , if different , and whether business is carried on alone or with others ; ( iii ) the nature of the business , and business addresses ; ( iv ) the names in which business was carried on , if different , and whether business was carried on alone or with others ; ( v ) any former addresses during the period when the debts were incurred ( r 6.38 ) . |
| 5 | The petition must state : ( i ) the name , place of residence and occupation of the debtor ; ( ii ) the names in which business is carried on , if different , and whether business is carried on alone or with others ; ( iii ) the nature of the business , and business addresses ; ( iv ) the names in which business was carried on , if different , and whether business was carried on alone or with others ; ( v ) any former addresses during the period when the debts were incurred ( r 6.38 ) . |
| 6 | Had you broken them in properly or carefully plastered any sore areas beforehand ? |
| 7 | Within Bield one survey showed that half of those tenants who moved on to further care from sheltered housing did so wholly or primarily for mental health reasons . |
| 8 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 9 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
| 10 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 11 | The moment the game ends I 'll know whether everything is all right or otherwise . ’ |
| 12 | It is n't always straightforward to get , say , Frenchmen and Germans working together successfully or even people from southern Italy working well with those from the north . |
| 13 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 14 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 15 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 16 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 17 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it comes to us all sooner or later . |
| 19 | She had only to hide at one of these places and wait , and they would all come along sooner or later . |
| 20 | Do you wan na stay in tonight or |
| 21 | He went and p pushed me in somehow or other you know . |
| 22 | The range of blood cholesterol concentrations is much broader and the effects of straying much above or below ‘ the normal range ’ are not readily apparent in the short term . |
| 23 | Rather ingenuously it appears that , with the liberation of Paris , the French in Vietnam asked for Japanese permission to celebrate the event ; and it must have been obvious to the Japanese , too , that the uneasy but de facto alignment between them and the French was liable to break down sooner or later . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd better go in anyway or we 'll end up having to sit in the shade for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 25 | So somehow or other , he knew . |
| 26 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 27 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 28 | A photograph taken in Picasso 's studio in the summer of 1908 shows an earlier , apparently more or less completed version of the Three Women executed in a style which makes use of rough , almost violent striations , used to emphasize the different areas to the sides of the figures , while the figures themselves appear to have the rough-hewn bulkiness of much of the most characteristic contemporary African-influenced figure pieces . |
| 29 | Doubtless there will be some who will argue that attempting to change structures is less important than trying to convince those who exercise power in our society to do so responsibly or that in any case radical changes in structures are politically impossible . |
| 30 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |