Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those working less than full-time hours ( generally 35 or more per week ) may find themselves barred from pension , profit-sharing and preferential company loan schemes . |
| 2 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 3 | of manufacturers expecting to spend as much or more on training in the next 12 months . |
| 4 | Many of the drinkers questioned felt cheated that they were paying as much or more for nablab products while the brewers paid far less duty ( and practically nothing on alcohol-free products ) than on their normal brews . |
| 5 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 6 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 7 | For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment . |
| 8 | I merely wish to draw attention to the long chain of wrongly dated groups of pottery , each in turn dependent on the other , all the result of the false assumption that a few coins were contemporary with this deposit , whereas they were either residual or still in circulation , and in neither case have a relevance in establishing a terminus post quem . |
| 9 | In the first outbreak it was estimated that no more than one per cent of the entire rabbit population survived , and these few were either immune or out of contact with other rabbits . |
| 10 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 11 | Some patients may need drug therapy at diagnosis if they are thin and have lost much weight with severe hyperglycaemia , are very symptomatic or perhaps with evidence of infection . |