Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 2 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 3 | To the degree that Freeman 's is the best and correct understanding of the play 's real and essential structure , earlier interpreters misunderstood it or understood it less satisfactorily or more superficially . |
| 4 | Either pull it down completely or do something quickly . |
| 5 | Was n't it just before or after her husband died ? |
| 6 | Was n't it just before or after her husband died ? |
| 7 | Depends if I could have it still tomorrow or not . |
| 8 | If you go there as an investigating officer either do it more subtly or use the full paraphernalia of your office . ’ |
| 9 | Do n't leave it any longer or it becomes hard to control . |
| 10 | Taps and valves are used to control the flow of water through pipes , either to turn it off completely or to reduce it . |
| 11 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 12 | I did regret it later once or twice . ’ |
| 13 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 14 | At low tide you can cross the bays on the beach but at high tide you have to go inland , a lot further round so timing is important — we got it wrong once or twice ! |
| 15 | The fact is I did take it out once or twice , determined to do something with it , but other things , like earning enough to keep a roof over our heads and send the children to decent schools , always seemed to intervene . |
| 16 | Ah , but it 's y you still see it , I mean we still see it about once or twice every week . |
| 17 | but er I was the only one that ever used it and I used it about once or twice and then , like like , I used it for about |
| 18 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 19 | He ate it cheerfully enough or sometimes abstractedly . |
| 20 | In wild cats it then more or less disappears as they become adult , but domestic cats remain mentally like kittens even when they are fully grown , and continue to ‘ talk ’ to their human owners like kittens communicating with their mothers . |
| 21 | Was it universally backward or were there variations between different sectors and branches of industry ? |
| 22 | two people to go to John , erm because erm , apart from anything else it was agreed John 's arm was twisted yesterday to take two people and g and the work but the issue is is that the K does n't , the issue is is that there is no budget anywhere for it either here or down in John 's area . |
| 23 | Getting out of it either backwards or on the left side is considered to be unlucky . |
| 24 | Many cases documented in the following chapters on obscenity , in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved , be it either centrally or peripherally , may , quite unlike the Gay News or Thorsen cases , have no direct or obvious link with Christianity . |
| 25 | I should n't do it again today or they 'll have the law on you . |
| 26 | Is it too soon or is it |
| 27 | They could n't have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams . |