Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 2 | This appears to be the case regardless of whether the innovation is evaluated by the wider urban community as being of high or of low status . |
| 3 | The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education . |
| 4 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 5 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 6 | Even sacks with adjustable back lengths have their limits and people of above or below average height will have to shop around a little more carefully before finding the pack that 's just right for them . |
| 7 | There can therefore be no doubt that it has power to override the refusal of a minor , whether over the age of 16 or under that age but ‘ Gillick competent . ’ |
| 8 | I express no view on the question whether a young person , whether over the age of 16 or under that age if ‘ Gillick competent , ’ should have complete autonomy in the field of medical treatment . |
| 9 | A European Community ( EC ) plan was drafted for Hunosa allowing for most job losses to be covered by early retirement on full pay until the age of 68 or by natural job shrinkage . |
| 10 | Most of us , of course , hope to have children that we can consider ‘ normal ’ ; with average or above average intelligence , and no physical defects . |
| 11 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 12 | Such an organization leads to new behaviour which takes its place , either in personal or in social development . |
| 13 | are a vital element in maintaining sufferers in ordinary or in sheltered housing . |
| 14 | Both have the choice of investing their dollar funds in domestic or in external money markets . |
| 15 | Loans provided to traders by banks can be either in domestic or in foreign currency . |
| 16 | Firstly , the land forces units shown here are those which have been deployed in full or in significant part . |
| 17 | Do they , would you get more gas dissolved in hot or in cold water ? |
| 18 | While the first formula ( the practical syllogism ) served choices of means , the new formula whether in particular or in general form serves choices of ends . |
| 19 | Usually we oh about mid-sixties or in that direction and er without it we would n't have done extra barley . |
| 20 | Erm you have n't had the the figures of the local authorities erm on that or for that matter the public at large which I think is important . |
| 21 | Older subjects on normal or near normal diet |
| 22 | The basis of these systems was the allocation of credit points to parts of courses so that candidates could move from one course to another or from one centre to another and carry credit for past achievement , where that achievement was relevant to the new course . |
| 23 | To succeed , individuals will need tremendous flexibility to be able to move from one company to another or from one industry to another . |
| 24 | The suggestion is that the spiral possesses the capacity to move energy from one level to another or from one vibration to another — to act as a channel or interface . |
| 25 | In other words , A may seek to support the validity of his agreement with C by reliance either on executory or on executed consideration . |
| 26 | Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable . |
| 27 | through sulfur only , to two or to one metal atom ( 5 . |
| 28 | Before 1902 , no general grants were paid , either by central or by local government , to support secondary grammar schools . |
| 29 | The cluster lies in the same × 7 or × 8.5 field , together with a fainter star , 13 Monocerotis ( 4.5 ) . |
| 30 | The corporation sells land by tender or by private negotiation . |