Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers .
2 I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he
3 Your father was chief cook to the Maharajah of Patiala or somewhere but I ca n't boil an egg . ’
4 and we 'd go off to Felixstowe or somewhere but you see we still went away because he had four first class passes a year
5 But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself .
6 If he found after two or three days that he was n't really making much headway , he would then , after he 'd left the police courts , say to me I think you 'd better go down street or somewhere and see if you can find
7 She wants to take you over to Debenhams or somewhere and go and have tea .
8 Erm she was go , on her way to Churk or somewhere and said to Jan would you like to meet for lunch first ?
9 Moved on at dawn to Athens or Antibes or somewhere or other .
10 I can er either buy one in Asda or somewhere or forget about it and have a fresh tree .
11 god of war of Norway or somewhere or something like that , or it is sort of thunder
12 New models of reality , either mystically or prophetically or rationally apprehended , are propounded as a criticism of , and alternative to , the prevailing models .
13 As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " .
14 As Mafouz tacked one way , it would move in the other , and when he swerved round to get it once more in his sights it would sidle left or right until it was sure it was once again in his blind spot .
15 Junctions controlled by police or a traffic warden , when all traffic is held up by police officer or traffic warden you must not go left or right until you are signalled to do so .
16 It did n't pay to let a woman know you cared , or rather that your body did .
17 She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself .
18 The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns .
19 In the work of Gagnon and Simon , it seems to be suggested that nothing is intrinsically sexual , or rather that anything can be sexualised ( though what creates the notion of ‘ sexuality ’ itself is never answered ) .
20 ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck .
21 Within my CNAA experience , the success of these courses often related to the organisational structure of the degree programme as much as or rather than its academic integrity .
22 Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made .
23 ‘ Since you are Derek 's friends — or rather since you do n't care very much for his health and welfare I will not call you his friends but surely I ought to know your name ! ’
24 Inversion and substitution are intensely narcissistic ; despite that — or rather because of it , since Genet also transvalues narcissism — they extend tar beyond the self .
25 Despite , or rather because of , the heyday of the shipbuilding on the Clyde and the ever increasing commercial traffic through the port of Greenock , the area had become a magnet for unemployed , and especially the ‘ cleared ’ peoples of the Highlands and Islands .
26 Because of its Hypersoft compression technology , or rather because it does n't require image decompression , 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 seconds , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes .
27 Because of its Hypersoft compression technology or rather because it does n't require image decompression 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 second , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes .
28 IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job .
29 But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real .
30 When evening came , or rather when lousing-time came ( lousing-time was when the day 's work was over and the horses were loosened from the yoke ) , they were then handed over more or less to us children .
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