Example sentences of "[adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | E coli and other enterobacteria were isolated on either Columbia horse blood or MacConkey agars ( Oxoid Ltd ) incubated aerobically or microaerobically at 37°C for between 18 and 48 hours . |
| 2 | One is to say that there are subtle differences which explain alleged inconsistencies , as for example between banning experiments altogether or after 14 days yet allowing later abortions . |
| 3 | A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing . |
| 4 | A few treasure hunters are also acting illegally ( for example , by using a metal detector in Britain on a scheduled ancient monument ) and may therefore sometimes conceal the find spot altogether or even falsify one . |
| 5 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 6 | While the problem was recognised as early as the 1930s , when institutions and regulations were created to combat it , these have been either ignored altogether or simply not enforced . |
| 7 | If you know you will be with people in the evening too , it would be ideal to have the afternoon away from people altogether or to postpone the evening appointment . |
| 8 | Inevitably that produces omissions , and may lead the interpreter to stop altogether or to ask the speaker to slow down . |
| 9 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 10 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 11 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 12 | Thus the electrons would either escape from the atom altogether or would spiral into the nucleus . |
| 13 | The centre represented by UPNI and Alliance had 10,000 votes altogether or about 16% . |
| 14 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 15 | Do you feel that that would have solved the situation on Piper Alpha altogether or how far would it have gone to perhaps lessening the the blow of the the occasion ? |
| 16 | Where a defendant is debarred from defending altogether or the whole of his defence is struck out , the plaintiff may have judgment entered for his claim and costs ( N 30 ) ( Ord 22 , r 5 ) . |
| 17 | One Tory back-bencher dismissed the VAT proposal as ‘ mental ’ while others predicted that the Government would eventually be forced to scrap it altogether or at least reduce the planned amount . |
| 18 | And is that ah er another cricket team altogether or what ? |
| 19 | And is that ah er another cricket team altogether or what ? |
| 20 | And he 'll either you can either knock he 'll ei , you can either knock some money off , which he 'd accept whatev , mo most or he 'd pay your deposit for you . |
| 21 | After that , there being no predestination , it is up to the human being concerned to deal with the problems as they arise — successfully or otherwise . |
| 22 | The infantile , unmet scream may be repressed , either successfully or partially , at times breaking out from a normally controlled and reasonable adult . |
| 23 | It is n't always straightforward to get , say , Frenchmen and Germans working together successfully or even people from southern Italy working well with those from the north . |
| 24 | No one hunted man-eating tigers more assiduously and successfully or knew more about them than Corbett . |
| 25 | For if all ontological claims are to be understood as forms of man 's own self-understanding , rather than conveying , successfully or otherwise , certain objective existential facts ' , then existentialism itself turns out to be a form of reductivism . |
| 26 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 27 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 28 | Are the answers at the back of the book or on the next page or are they in another book ( this would mean extra expense ) ? 16 Does the student learn inductively or solely deductively ? 17 Are the topics and stories interesting and appropriate or are they dull and irrelevant to your students ' needs ? |
| 29 | He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist . |
| 30 | Unless those wholly or almost wholly unable to travel any distance without a vehicle ( bearing in mind the current state of the pavements ) were exempt from such a charge , it would amount to gross discrimination against an already disenfranchised group . |