Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 2 | The third sub-type of academic course is less easy to describe , but it is broader or more general than the two-subject degree . |
| 3 | Instead of being as high or even higher than the overall rate of self-employment , the rate of self-employment amongst temporary workers is only half that for all workers . |
| 4 | If they collapse immediately , then they are either too wet or too dry and the mixture must be amended before use . |
| 5 | Heads of agreement which are not legally binding can be as detailed or as brief as the parties wish . |
| 6 | The first ventral arm plate appears trapezoidal or slightly pentagonal while the subsequent plates become more rounded with an obtuse proximal angle and a rounded distal edge ; they are separated from one another . |
| 7 | Business plans can be as simple or as complicated as the designer wishes , but their prime function is to set well-defined goals and to identify the resources in terms of time , finance , accommodation , equipment , personnel and training that will be required to meet the objectives . |
| 8 | No scene , perhaps , in The Lord of the Rings is more moving or more suggestive than the one in which Sam and Frodo , in Mordor , see the wind changing and the darkness driven back , and then as if in answer to prayer come upon a trickle of water : ‘ ill-fated ’ and ‘ fruitless ’ in appearance , but at that moment seemingly a message from the world outside , beyond the Shadow . |
| 9 | It was not as large or as upright as the one in the Book of Instruction . |
| 10 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 11 | Talkative , gregarious and insensitive , he attached himself as if by magnetic force to any group larger or more important than the one he was actually in . |
| 12 | The husband who is or becomes emotionally clumsy or inconsiderate , the wife who is over-demanding or nagging , the partner who is coldly disapproving or coolly unsupportive or the one who is noisily depreciatory all run the risk of becoming the " bad parent " ; the " bad parent " is not loved and the physical side of love will deteriorate . |
| 13 | It seemed , in the wake of rival expulsions of alleged spies from London and Moscow , that Anglo-Russian relations were not as buoyant or as important as the British Prime Minister had claimed . |
| 14 | Not all our units and sequences will be as long or as detailed as the foregoing examples . |
| 15 | Well I do n't like it very much but it has this very interesting discussion as to whether a fax was cheaper or more expensive than the telephone |
| 16 | moving towards CDL or even CDL as the teacher learns to handle the system and the unit . |
| 17 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 18 | According to the relative specialisation models , both hemispheres can perform a given function but one is faster or more efficient than the other . |
| 19 | The more international brasserie dishes on the elegant and rather over-long menu reflect this straightforward approach : nothing flashy or too sauced and a strong injection of Britishness . |
| 20 | To speak of further training programmes now may sound like a mere desperate remedy , but it does n't mean anything as arduous or as expensive as the full training of your drama school . |
| 21 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 22 | The distinction between the effect of a deed under seal , and that of an agreement by parol , or by writing not under seal , may seem arbitrary , but it is established in our law ; nor is it really unreasonable or practically inconvenient that the law should require particular solemnities to give a gratuitous contract the force of a binding obligation . |
| 23 | There is no particular reason ( or at least none in anything that we have discussed so far ) to expect either side in the arms race to become steadily more successful or less successful than the other . |
| 24 | It does not matter if our objector allows or insists , as no doubt he will , that it was in some consistent sense probable or highly probable that the smell would occur . |
| 25 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |