Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership .
2 Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time ?
3 Even then , the limits of such danger are bounded by the age of the child or children involved and the child 's socio-sexual maturity , while mitigation may lie in the knowledgeable cooperation or even encouragement of the youngster concerned .
4 The leaders of the labour movement concluded from this that the British government had a responsibility to defend democracy against fascism and were increasingly bitter about the apparent indifference or even acceptance which characterized the response of many Conservatives to dictatorship in central Europe .
5 And it was , were you shop steward for the whole factory or just part of the factory ?
6 Overall , consumers save more than they borrow , though in the last year or so borrowing has accelerated more than saving .
7 No doubt " and emptiness " adds a further precision or perhaps elaboration to the of line A ; that is to say , to the idea of ignorable non-existence is added that of chaotic absence of form .
8 They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period .
9 Now we 're looking for tomorrow for about a twenty minute or so role play .
10 A visit may lead to a display , or an audio-visual presentation or perhaps drama , role-play or empathetic work .
11 Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ?
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