Example sentences of "[adv] or [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult .
2 These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent .
3 Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings .
4 I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice .
5 That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation .
6 All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history .
7 As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles .
8 ‘ We had more or less a free hand .
9 The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " .
10 Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board .
11 9.5 Effect of waiver Each of the Tenant 's covenants shall remain in full force both at law and in equity notwithstanding that the Landlord shall have waived or released temporarily any such covenant or waived or released temporarily or permanently revocably or irrevocably a similar covenant or similar covenants affecting any other part of the Centre or the Adjoining Property This provision is an attempt to circumvent the rather harsh law of waiver , by which a landlord will lose its right to forfeit the lease where a non-continuing breach has occurred if the landlord does some act to suggest that the landlord is nevertheless satisfied to continue the tenancy , eg by accepting rent from the tenant .
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