Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or even [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 6 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |
| 7 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 8 | The coordinating nurse on each shift ‘ liaises ’ with the admissions office regarding bed availability , and will frequently act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ and ‘ spokesperson ’ for the ward — with the aid of an established ward standard — if the total patient dependency score and staff skill mix ratio is not compatible with maintaining a high or even safe level of patient care . |
| 9 | Most customers come by car , and do their shopping on a weekly or even monthly basis , so hypermarkets have large car parks . |
| 10 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 11 | In Vienna , the architect Hans Hollein has produced small new shopfronts that are a sensation ; so there is no reason why appropriately sited new shopfronts , in a contemporary or even futuristic style , can not sometimes add zip to a high street . |
| 12 | The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ . |
| 13 | Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level . |
| 14 | Brighthelmstone , without a natural or even man-made harbour , became the principal fishing town of the central Sussex area . |
| 15 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |
| 16 | Your employer has no legal or even moral obligation to house you , although they may advise you on what is available locally in the public and private sector . |
| 17 | Do n't expect a systematic or even chronological history . |
| 18 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 19 | It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context . |
| 20 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has awarded its " Green Con of the Year Award " for 1992 to Meyer International , owner of the Jewsons chain of builders ' merchants , for attempting to persuade the public that the timber trade has a marginal or even beneficial role in the battle to save the world 's forests . |
| 21 | I do not claim that this book is in any way a final or even comprehensive analysis of its subject matter . |
| 22 | Thirdly , there is no necessary or even likely reason why subsidizing capital with below-cost land , premises or advice should create more jobs or lead to local regeneration . |
| 23 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 24 | He behaved sometimes as if heterosexual love were an improper or even immoral exercise and if his presence could disrupt it , so much the better . |
| 25 | Aristotle called the kings ‘ hereditary generals ’ and an incompetent or even average king could do a lot of damage in a short while — like Kleombrotos who lost the decisive battle of Leuktra in 371 but was not catastrophically inept . |
| 26 | It was not considered an easy or even feasible task to prove this relationship , but the North East CAB area policy comment sub-committee nevertheless launched a pilot study . |
| 27 | This might be the tiniest thing but if it is wrongly handled , it will inconvenience everyone and leave an uneasy or even bad memory . |