Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The moment the game ends I 'll know whether everything is all right or otherwise . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ‘ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , it comes to us all sooner or later . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So somehow or other , he knew . |
| 15 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 16 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 21 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 22 | This fact can be used to advantage by those who drink alcohol occasionally perhaps only once or twice a week on social occasions , and not every day . |
| 23 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 24 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
| 25 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 26 | Implications : the implications of the change and any alternatives or compromises which are possible , particularly if the affected programs will be used only once or if the change will require a considerable amount of development effort |
| 27 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 28 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 29 | So fascinated was he , that only occasionally did he remember to touch her , only once or twice interrupt her to bend and kiss her lips , and forgot completely his need for a cigarette . |
| 30 | Dexter had met such relaxed optimism only once or twice before — either in evangelists or conmen . |