Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Given the common Caribbean background of family members it is noteworthy that Creole is not used as a common medium of interaction either within or between generations , at least when British-born speakers are present ; however , some speakers may use a mesolectal Creole most of the time without it apparently having or acquiring any special symbolic value . |
| 4 | Cathy Massiter made it very clear in her television interview that MI5 and Special Branch alone decide who merits a dossier and which group they belong to and can open a file on any person or group of people or organisation they please , put into it anything they like , be it only gossip or hearsay , and once opened the file remains there indefinitely . |
| 5 | That does n't mean it necessarily worked or was good ; but , once the script is settled in your mind , the best you can hope for is that the finished film reflects those ambitions . |
| 6 | Or else it 's the Croup , the Colic , the Beads it just swallowed or double |
| 7 | Was it ever published or was it just |
| 8 | It still tasted or bleach . |
| 9 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 10 | No staff do it short term or as an addition to their normal job . |
| 11 | It is said , therefore , that it directly causes or permits the nuisance to continue , as happened in Halsey 's case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So is it here to stay or could we , all of us , do without drugs ? |
| 14 | According to Borland , Paradox 4 is between five and ten times faster than Version 3.5 — a program that was never accused of being a slouch — and on most tasks it reportedly matches or beats FoxPro , Microsoft 's swift dBase lookalike , which previously outpaced all comers . |
| 15 | As the old ways were forgotten , it simply disappeared or went underground . |
| 16 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 17 | There are many areas of sexual activity where the Bible is silent ; it neither condones or condemns them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Achieving the task is top priority but process is vital because it either helps or hinders the achievement of the task . |
| 22 | Next , I shall discuss some difficulties which it either generates or leaves unsolved . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Lyrically it either castigates or canonises the Kray twins , I ca n't tell which . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Granny is n't really a knot — it 's a mistake because it either slips or jams . |
| 27 | On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | which is true enough , it never did or does ; |