Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 2 | They 're hardly likely to have the most tolerant or liberal attitudes are they ! |
| 3 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 4 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 5 | Do n't forget , she was returning to a village in the north , hardly the most progressive or liberal-minded place at the best of times , and this particular village was especially proud of its moral record . |
| 6 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 7 | Were they predominantly political or social ? |
| 8 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 9 | The natural function of this communicative behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or not , is to impart to fellow creatures ‘ cognitive stand-ins for the states of affairs they represent ’ . |
| 10 | Irish constituencies are mostly rural or semi-rural . |
| 11 | Such cells were remarkably scarce or absent beneath the follicle associated epithelium in the dome region of Peyer 's patches , where CD68 macrophages were abundant . |
| 12 | Equally , dogmatic insistence that self-regulation as such is either wholly admirable or wholly obnoxious ignores the complexity of existing regulatory systems , which defy simply classification . |
| 13 | The number of enquiries I get from distant countries is ample evidence of EE 's wide circulation , and some of them are not a little odd or amusing . |
| 14 | And not in the most propitious or enjoyable circumstances . |
| 15 | But this was to be a market that was not wholly free or spontaneous . |
| 16 | In other words , a compromise : management can never be wholly altruistic or spotlessly ethical , but the harm done to others can be minimised . |
| 17 | The Colonel was there with his wife and children , and although it was not compulsory for the men to attend mass , there were a large number of legionnaires present , mostly Latin or East European . |
| 18 | Which feel most painful or scary ? |
| 19 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |
| 20 | Experience in the use of such categories can enable observers of group behaviour to give constructive and relevant feedback to group members , instead of rather generalised or anecdotal descriptions of what has appeared to have taken place . |
| 21 | When you know what you are trying to convey , then you think about the best possible or the most exciting or exhilarating way of communicating this . |
| 22 | Lessons have been analysed according to descriptive schemes of different sorts based on the abstraction of what the researchers have considered to be the most salient or significant features of classroom behaviour . |
| 23 | When , however , the hostilities did begin , for most Frenchmen they ended , ignominiously , with imprisonment by the Japanese while for those in the north who together with their Vietnamese riflemen fought the Japanese with exemplary heroism , dying in beleaguered garrisons or making a fighting retreat to the Chinese border , their fate precipitated the most unpleasant or at least the most unfortunate disagreement between the Allies . |
| 24 | It is cheating a bit , I fear , to think of the Basque Coast as Pyrenean , because at this end of the chain , unlike at the other , the mountains fight shy of the water and make a decisive turn to the west some miles inland , to enter Spain ; so you can see the most northerly or westerly Pyrenees easily enough from points along the coast , but you ca n't feel you are among them . |
| 25 | No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding . |
| 26 | There is an extensive literature which illustrates that the link between effort ( E ) and performance ( P ) is rarely linear or smooth . |
| 27 | Would it now get about that Mrs Markham was a little peculiar or , worse still , that she had some assignation ? |
| 28 | Two main types of explanation are offered as accounting in these terms for the distinctive ways in which women and men approach moral questions : these are , first , predominantly biological explanations , and , second , predominantly social or cultural explanations . |
| 29 | Sometimes the most interesting or unusual fact in the story can be pressed into service in the headline . |
| 30 | * Organising an essay around a pre-existing sequence ( such as historical order ) is straightforward but often not the most interesting or useful option ( see p. 54 ) . |