Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 2 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 3 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 4 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 6 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
| 8 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 9 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 10 | The government estimates that an additional 11,250 reports will be required each year , on top of the 250,000 or so social inquiry reports that were being called for in the years preceding the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 11 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 12 | It is suitable for the cold or lightly heated aquarium . |
| 13 | Stereoscopic depth perception was studied by Durnford and Kimura ( 1971 ) by asking subjects to judge whether two rods , one presented at the point of fixation and one presented in the left or right visual field , were horizontally aligned . |
| 14 | Cohen ( 1972 ) presented the Posner task to the left or right visual field and found a RVF superiority for NI matches and a LVF superiority for PI matches , as did Geffen , Bradshaw and Nettleton ( 1972 ) . |
| 15 | These workers presented letter strings to the left or right visual field for different durations . |
| 16 | These stimuli comprised of verbal ( trigram ) and spatial ( dot location ) tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject while s/he shadowed auditory verbal stimuli . |
| 17 | These stimuli comprised of verbal and spatial tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject . |
| 18 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 19 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 20 | Soviet policymakers had generally taken little interest in the colonial or newly independent world during the Stalin years . |
| 21 | Specialised help from an adviser for visually handicapped pupils or a specialist teacher or mobility officer will be needed for the blind or virtually blind child to use the environment safely and this should be sought . |
| 22 | Because the map coordinates of the locations of the car and the service unit are represented digitally , the shortest or most convenient route between the two points can be worked out automatically . |
| 23 | Murder is committed in those situations where D caused death by an act or omission which he knew had death as the probable or highly probable result . |
| 24 | From 1982–90 SCAWD ran a small investment company , one of the fifteen or so international support associations of EDCS , raising in that time some £250,000 in investment capital for the WCC development bank . |
| 25 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 26 | Within this locality we look at the imminent or fairly imminent closure of , of , of . |
| 27 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 28 | This order specifies how the twenty or so different amino acids are arranged in a protein , how much is to be made , and when . |
| 29 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 30 | It is worthy of note at this point that the decision as to what is the correct or most similar remedy for a patient is not necessarily simple or straightforward . |