Example sentences of "or it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 2 | In the wake of the MacCabe affair in 1981 , an editorial in the Times Higher Education Supplement said that a fissiparous discipline such as English had a number of hard choices in front of it : it could become even more pluralistic and diffuse , with accompanying pedagogic problems ; it could repressively impose one favoured approach ; or it could split . |
| 3 | The result of this hunger could simply be that opera houses survive the dog days of Thatcherism with full houses for Carmen etc. , or it could be the creation of new works that express and mirror the social and political needs of our culture in opera 's emotive language . |
| 4 | ‘ The way things are going we shall lose more of our friends , or it could be us next time round . |
| 5 | Thus the eye could be subjected to precise ‘ reality ’ , or it could be repositioned , led , titillated or deceived . |
| 6 | The machine could either stand on the threshing floor of an orthodox flail-threshing barn , which provided shelter from the weather , or it could be taken to the ricks in the fields . |
| 7 | Or it could be sold to someone else planning an assault . |
| 8 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 9 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 11 | Or it could be the other way round . |
| 12 | Up to the middle of the nineteenth century , water could only be obtained from wells — which frequently also became places of meetings and entertainment , e.g. Sadlers Wells , or by collecting and storing rain water , or it could be purchased from water vendors , at three pailsful for a penny . |
| 13 | Or it could be simply that there had n't yet been a serious British accident . |
| 14 | Or it could be the deepest level of intimacy and trust . |
| 15 | Or it could be done through fragmentation . |
| 16 | You could crack your skull on that intractable stone , or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh . |
| 17 | Or it could help you re-structure your finances by paying off all you owe on store cards , credit cards and hire purchase . |
| 18 | Alternatively it may be an area based course involving advice workers from several bureaux or it could be a private study session with an open learning package . |
| 19 | This could involve simple , everyday tasks like making beds or serving meals , or it could be planning activities and supervising them . |
| 20 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 21 | Or it could be argued that the abbots had been merciful : that they had allowed slaves to become serfs . |
| 22 | Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia , stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought . |
| 23 | Or it could reflect an increasingly mobile population . |
| 24 | Any debts will have to be repaid which may mean you come under pressure to do so , or it could be that other people will be unable to pay you . |
| 25 | Or it could be the computer in the corner that keeps us awake . |
| 26 | It can carry voice calls and transfer data or graphics on the same call , or it could carry a videophone call with a ‘ reasonable ’ quality picture . |
| 27 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 28 | It could be as marvellous as you think it will be or it could be a total disaster . |
| 29 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 30 | Explanation : That which you would like to achieve by helping the family — it could be something specific like improving Amy 's weight or it could be something more general such as changing attitudes . |