Example sentences of "[verb] or [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the equipment in a playground needs repairing or is n't firmly fixed to the ground , or if there 's a lot of rubbish and broken glass lying around , do n't hesitate to notify the authorities . |
| 2 | They say that no need has been proven or is ever likely to be . |
| 3 | Dealers are confident that the market has stabilised or is even on the up-turn . |
| 4 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 5 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 6 | If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem . |
| 7 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 8 | The necessity to offline may arise when the storage disks are becoming full , or if a certain package/package structure does not need to be stored online because it has been superseded or is no longer part of a live project . |
| 9 | Slowly add the 1:1 nitric acid to the mercuric nitrate with constant stirring until the milky precipitate just dissolves or is just about to — approximately 8 drops of acid is usually sufficient . |
| 10 | Inside , the triforium is often omitted or is just a decorative band , while the nave arcade is of great importance . |
| 11 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 12 | The methods are applied systematically every time the behaviour occurs or is about to occur . |
| 13 | Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur . |
| 14 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 15 | If a horse is being naughty then you have to punish him in some way — but do n't punish him if he does n't understand or is physically incapable of doing what you 've asked . ’ |
| 16 | Is that something that other folk on Stronsay know or is just something you |
| 17 | Are they clear and easy to understand or is too much going on ? |
| 18 | ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear . |
| 19 | In other words , implicit in this assumption is the view that law does restrain or is potentially capable of restraining , the international use of nuclear force . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) Where a licence is granted by a board which has not been properly constituted or is otherwise not in accordance with the Act , the licence is void . |
| 21 | This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties . |
| 22 | Frequently , however , the imposition of standards reflects a judgement that important externalities exist or is simply a pure value judgement based on distributional considerations . |
| 23 | It seems plausible to suppose that unless a person enjoys or is soon likely to acquire effective power in a society he does not possess legitimate political authority over that society . |
| 24 | Pupils could be encouraged to ascertain what is going on in the picture , what has happened or is about to happen , why are people doing certain things . |
| 25 | If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed . |
| 26 | This can quite often happen as a result of the last part of the tone-unit being already ‘ given ’ ( i.e. something which has already been mentioned or is completely predictable ) , for example : |
| 27 | Section 1(5) prohibits an individual who has contemplated or who is contemplating making a take-over offer for a company in one capacity from dealing in the shares of the offeree in another capacity if he knows that the information relating to the fact that the offer is contemplated or is no longer contemplated is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 28 | I mean one thing that 's mentioned before is about tag questions , which is where you put on question to the end of your sentence , as in Oh do n't you agree or Is n't it or you know you know the sort of thing I mean . |
| 29 | In the same way , the country will add up how much has been paid or is still owed from overseas countries for goods exported to them . |