Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill of sex with someone taller or blonder than the wonderful man I 've got ? |
| 2 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 3 | Eric would perhaps have been killed or wounded and the suspicious position of the car might well have been noticed by somebody . |
| 4 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 5 | The sieve mesh sizes , raw weights , weight percentages and cumulative percentages , finer or coarser than the specific sieve , may be displayed . |
| 6 | Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240Mb hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1,152 by 900 resolution and a 14″ colour monitor . |
| 7 | Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240MB hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1152 x 900 resolution and a 14-inch colour monitor . |
| 8 | The transfection experiments using constructions encompassing oligonucleotides I or III and the HSV-tk promoter demonstrated a less pronounced increase in transcription ( 2 to 3 times ) compared with the effect of the same sequences when located in the context of the entire promoter ( quotient ΔX/Δ63 in Figure 1 ) . |
| 9 | As a result the viewing audience may feel alienated and become bored or hostile unless the original lecture is interesting enough to overcome this reaction . |
| 10 | Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics . |
| 11 | unc In finding the set of numbers greater or less than a given value , the number line is useful as a check that no elements have been missed out . |
| 12 | That is nothing more or less than a direct payroll tax on jobs . |
| 13 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 14 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 15 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 16 | They 're very often no more or less than the exact truth . |
| 17 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 18 | The attributes of any volume which is empty or full after a hard copy run may be changed , with the exception of the volume name and charge code ; the minimum fill mark of partially filled volumes may be revised between hard copy runs . |
| 19 | The external walls of all buildings are therefore required to have the requisite period of fire resistance , unless the building is placed at , or more than a specified distance from , the boundary . |
| 20 | In the opposite case where the market value was greater by 15 per cent or more than the theoretical value of the P/E ratio they found that shares underperformed the market . |
| 21 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 22 | In order to show conscious memorising the employer will have to demonstrate that the complexity of the process or that the list of trade connections was so lengthy or important that an honest employee would have realised that these were the property of his employer . |
| 23 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 24 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 25 | Of all the species visible in Bharatpur , none is more romantic or mysterious than the Siberian crane . |
| 26 | The minimum hardware requirements for InstaPlan are 640k of random-access memory ( RAM ) , MS-DOS 2.0 or higher and a floppy disk . |
| 27 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 28 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 29 | It is difficult to tell whether they are disappointed or pleased when the expected end seems delayed . |
| 30 | In a number of large irrigation schemes in the tropics , the continuous cultivation of a range of crops now allows certain key pests to survive ; previously a closed season or fallow provided a natural check on insect populations . |