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

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1 The posture is organised as carefully as the length of the red tags or the Sta-prest or the hair .
2 It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties .
3 And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter .
4 In such cases they implied that every Ujdaid or every Amiri had had combatant status .
5 The charter party is the document made between the merchant and the bourgeois or the owner of the ship to make a voyage …
6 virtually no grammatical structure is evident — certainly no proper sentences , and a few or no function words , prefixes or suffixes ;
7 Many times good teaching in churches is wasted because its hearers never engage with it in a context of personal relationship , whether a one-to-one or a group relationship .
8 Other surveys have estimated that as many as a third or a quarter of prisoners may have mental health problems ( Fennell , 1991 ) .
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