Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 2 | It is said , therefore , that it directly causes or permits the nuisance to continue , as happened in Halsey 's case . |
| 3 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 4 | However , after exhaustive efforts to produce interfaces using Motif — which it dubs a ‘ deranged widget set ’ — the company has decided to ‘ stop throwing good money after bad and cease using it until it either improves or disappears . ’ |
| 5 | If you get only a mild reaction to a particular food , watch it carefully until it either disappears or increases into a full-blown reaction . |
| 6 | A residents ' association , parish or town council is not allowed to make representations on behalf of local residents unless it actually owns or occupies land in the vicinity of the proposed operating centre . |
| 7 | Achieving the task is top priority but process is vital because it either helps or hinders the achievement of the task . |
| 8 | The Granny is n't really a knot — it 's a mistake because it either slips or jams . |
| 9 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 10 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 11 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |