Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 2 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |
| 3 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 4 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 5 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 6 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 7 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 8 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 9 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 10 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 11 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 12 | If the model is slain by enemy missile fire or similar then the catapult may not shoot next turn , but the model may be returned to indicate that another Doom Diver has stepped forward . |