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

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1 In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day .
2 The surprise findings have worried island fishermen , who want more detailed monitoring to determine whether the oil is localised or spread over a wide area .
3 The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find .
4 Under the Testing of Poultry Order 1989 , egg producers must test birds who are 18 weeks or older once every two months .
5 A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness .
6 At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt .
7 A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves .
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