Example sentences of "it was [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the magic lay in the fact that it was either or both ? |
| 2 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 3 | There was a madness about and I could n't tell whether it was within or without me , or either or neither . |
| 4 | is this erm looking at the a Moving on to look at the erm this area for actual for traders and so on , is it as attractive erm for traders to actually move into the area , as it was previously or or not ? |
| 5 | Somewhere , he could not tell whether it was near or far , somewhere outside his present universe of ice , a bell was tolling . |
| 6 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 7 | I only defrosted this oh it was yesterday or the day before . |
| 8 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 9 | ‘ Is your view about them today the same as it was then or do you now feel you might have acted differently ? ’ |
| 10 | Topaz knew it was then or never . |
| 11 | He heard the faintest splash , and was not sure whether it was inside or out . |
| 12 | It was now or never . |
| 13 | With further government setbacks in by-elections in Bradford and Bootle on 8 November , there was a strong feeling that Heseltine 's reputation would be irreparably damaged if he did not stand : it was now or never . |
| 14 | He desperately wanted to rest , but it was now or never . |
| 15 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 16 | It was now or never . |
| 17 | Again , change was in the air ; the chance had to be seized ; it was now or never . |
| 18 | His eyes rested on her , mocking her , and Folly knew that it was now or never . |
| 19 | It was now or never . |
| 20 | Well , it was now or never . |
| 21 | It was now or never . |
| 22 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
| 23 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
| 24 | It was now or never , she realised numbly . |
| 25 | It was now or never . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll make it , ’ Maggie told him , crossing to the range where the kettle was boiling , as it was more or less constantly throughout the day . |
| 27 | The Arnhem mortar fragment had ended his war however , and by the time he got out of military hospital it was more or less over . |
| 28 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 29 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 30 | Only one of them , the Labyrinth at Knossos , was restored and repaired so that it could continue to use after 1470 , and it was more or less completely abandoned some ninety years later after a major fire . |