Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain arts which are not profitable or even viable in market terms are sustained by specific institutions such as foundations , by organizations of subscribers , and still by some private patronage . |
| 2 | The angle in this case being 23.4 , the full field of view will be 23.4 or nearly 47 in total . |
| 3 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 4 | For example , the final black-hole state is independent of whether the body that collapsed was composed of matter or antimatter , and whether it was spherical or highly irregular in shape . |
| 5 | More importantly , Griffin seems either to be confused or just wrong about consciousness . |
| 6 | This combined emphasis — that doubt is not the same as unbelief but can lead naturally to it — directs us to a mature handling of doubt that avoids the extremes of being too hard or too soft on doubt . |
| 7 | The overwhelming majority of world favourites are large or very large in size , and most are thought to be either highly or relatively intelligent . |
| 8 | Goff thought none looked fully relaxed or wholly free of shyness or worry , even though it was really Minton , who played the grand seigneur , who was racked by doubts , anxieties and self-pity . |
| 9 | There is a constant danger of losing sight of the young reader , a loss apparent in exquisite pictures that are too complex or more concerned with technique than content ; that are too concerned with nostalgia ( triggering the adult memory with steam engines and tram-cars , with gas masks and barrage-balloons ) ; books that are aimed at the coffee-table rather than the children ; and books that are too ‘ good ’ to handle . |
| 10 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 11 | : where the users of a system are likely to be casual or perhaps untrained in keyboard skills ( a situation that is becoming increasingly more commonplace ) , the use of speech or handwriting may be more appropriate than typed input ; |
| 12 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 13 | Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action . |
| 14 | And the free market system does n't protect them because they tend to be too poor or too old for health insurance cover . |
| 15 | Percentage sedentary or minimally active at work or play |
| 16 | We must therefore confront the empirical problem of separating out classical from Keynesian influences in order to answer a very simple question : is the unemployment which is observed in a particular economy over a given period of time predominantly classical or predominantly Keynesian in origin ? |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 18 | A simple draped dress suits everyone and could be either plain or really glittery for Christmas parties . |
| 19 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 20 | Many commensals or parasites of ant colonies have specialised glands that produce a variety of secretions appeasing the ants and preventing attack ; these secretions may be identical or nearly identical to recognition pheromones produced by the ants . |
| 21 | It could well be , however , that most or even all of Ape 's supporters prefer Camel to Bear , and symmetrically that most or even all of Bear 's supporters prefer Camel to Ape . |
| 22 | It could well be , however , that most or even all of Ape 's supporters prefer Camel to Bear , and symmetrically that most or even all of Bear 's supporters prefer Camel to Ape . |