Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 2 | It is clear that a baby or a young person is able to grow anatomically and physiologically without hearing stories or reading books . |
| 3 | We were fearful that a halt or a delay would result in other unfortunate occurrences in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 5 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 6 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 7 | The other interesting thing you would find about vocabulary and treatment between the tabloids and the Independent is the Independent has a policy of very little coverage of the Royal Family and I suspect that other than a paragraph or a sentence or two of introduction , that those four paragraphs at the foot of the page are simply the text of her speech courtiers and media blamed as the Princess retreats from public life , I suspect that you will find that that is not a story , it is simply a statement of fact and an actual reprint of the text of her speech . |
| 8 | ( b ) A recognised body shall not enter into partnership with any person other than a solicitor or a recognised body . |
| 9 | A virus is as impersonal as a bullet or a shell . |