Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , in fact did look at me rather palsely once or twice . |
| 2 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |
| 3 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If child B has had a relatively unstressful childhood , he will attain adulthood with a lower vulnerability than A. Child C , who also had a stressful upbringing , but inherited a tendency to react much less strongly or negatively to the environment , will also be less vulnerable in adulthood than A. However , there has so far been little cross-fertilisation between research on genetic factors in depression and research on life events . |
| 6 | But it is not necessary to look so far afield or so long ago for examples of rivers which have refused to obey the dictates of engineers . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ We have not played well enough either here or in India , and players are not guaranteed England places . |
| 8 | It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer . |
| 9 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I slowed some more and it was just as well or I would have missed him . |
| 13 | We must not dismiss the occasional and rare events as wild speculation ; statistically they must occur sooner or later , just as sooner or later that chimpanzee will type Hamlet . |
| 14 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 15 | would be grate , okay , and the same thing for next page , this is the day I started which , like maybe tomorrow or next day or when ever you start it Wednesday , I started at ten o'clock in the morning , was I , I was in Woking , what was I doing nothing just reading a , do whatever you have to put in your whatever you , |
| 16 | Genera , sub-species , etc. , can succeed each other temporarily or permanently , and if permanently either abruptly or gradually by transformation . |
| 17 | And all the lady members always either before or on the day , come up with bags of stuff for the tombola . |
| 18 | This is paradoxical because physical illness is taken seriously and given adequate treatment , and mental illness with mainly mental symptoms is taken seriously and treated ( if not always very effectively or humanely ) . |
| 19 | The only antidote to an unbridled proliferation of spurious designators is analysis , and of course we all practice analysis in some form or another , even though not always very radically or systematically . |
| 20 | That automatically internally within or within which is the company for medical practices , creates a financial figure that we would like to see achieved . |
| 21 | when he could earn half as much again or double in the private sector ? |
| 22 | But as advanced technology becomes more and more prevalent , we have to engage in analysis and diagnosis — that is , in ‘ information ’ — even more intensively or risk being swamped by the data we generate . |
| 23 | Well either there or no not taller , I do n't |
| 24 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 25 | Units involving practical case studies in mathematical modelling unify the work in these four subject areas and aim also to develop the personal skills sought by employers , namely the abilities to communicate , to make decisions , and to work effectively either individually or as a member of a team . |
| 26 | Thirty-eight per-cent believed more nuclear power plants should be built , either right now or subject to the government 's proposed review in 1994 . |
| 27 | It supports the belief that ageing makes people unattractive , and no longer physically or sexually interesting . |
| 28 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 29 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Both of these two framings are acceptable : the body is cut either just below or just above the elbow joint . |