Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether for an hour or even a full day , once you step on board it 's all hands on deck as crew members don their lifejackets and take to the seas in the adventure of a lifetime . |
| 2 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 3 | And there clearly are situations in which the collective opinion of a majority or even a dominant minority puts an unacceptable and sometimes intolerable pressure on the dissenting or deviant minority or individual . |
| 4 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 5 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 6 | Tropical species often use open sites , under a branch or even a large leaf . |
| 7 | Best of all were the knitted patchwork fragments , lash-stitched together as a coat , a skirt or even a zip-fronted poncho . |
| 8 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 9 | Is there a bottomless pit as suggested in the drawing or just a further depression that can be filled with a little more investment ? |
| 10 | For some women at this stage , cooking can become an absorbing hobby rather than the necessity of life it was when there were others to feed — a social pleasure or simply a personal indulgence . |
| 11 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 12 | the only time he has meat he has to have green salad or maybe a raw vegetable salad . |
| 13 | They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time . |
| 14 | We do n't know if it was the judge or just a passing joker who wrote the card ‘ the last person to look like this was shot ’ . |
| 15 | Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk . |
| 16 | If the latter course is chosen the patient can either be transferred to a once-daily insulin regime with a long-acting insulin or alternatively a twice-daily regime perhaps with a fixed combination of short- and intermediate-acting insulin . |
| 17 | There is also an adult with them at all times , often a parent or sometimes a social worker . |
| 18 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 19 | Either a spaniel or quite a big dog . |
| 20 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 21 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 22 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 23 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
| 24 | Then cleanse your face again and splash with cool water or just a refreshing toner on cotton wool . |
| 25 | And I think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked — has there been , er have , have corners been cut in order to keep the cost down , were we getting a good quality service or just a cheap service ? |
| 26 | In these studies , in common with many others , it has not been possible to discover if the change was a primary defect or merely a secondary effect of the disease process . |
| 27 | The next time that you have something to celebrate — a new baby , a new wife or even a new government — try a bottle of one of this month 's winning wines , you wo n't be disappointed . |
| 28 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 29 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 30 | Farm workers are usually the last to receive the protection of safety legislation , for example , or to receive benefits like sickness pay , pension schemes , paid holidays , a five-day week or even a written contract of employment and itemized pay packets . |