Example sentences of "or [adv] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 2 | If the RC needle moves left or right in the opposite direction from which the wind is coming , then your drift allowance is too large . |
| 3 | However , I would take issue with her view that the U.K. has been ‘ failing ’ economically or militarily in the recent past compared to the U.S. Economically it 's certainly not true , some examples : |
| 4 | Short-term pH changes , following the first heavy autumn rains , or especially in the early spring , when snowmelt releases acidic constituents accumulated during the winter , result in ‘ acid shock ’ which leads to fish mortality ( fish kills ) . |
| 5 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 6 | The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue . |
| 7 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 8 | A recovery process must take place : in the home , the pub or elsewhere in the surrounding locality . |
| 9 | When played f or ff in the ordinary way ( unmuted ) the tone is broad , sonorous , and noble . |
| 10 | A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline . |
| 11 | Back in Moose Jaw , busy with newspaper and radio work , it was not long before I was engaged in preparing and delivering a series of illustrated talks on musical appreciation on Wednesday evenings to audiences of 900 or more in the public auditorium of the Technical School . |
| 12 | That is the highest for five and a half years and is on course to reach three million around Christmas or early in the New Year . |
| 13 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 14 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 15 | This contact may take place in the intercourse of the classroom , the playground , the home and the outer world , or solely in the inner world of thought and feeling , through the personal records of action and experience known to us under the form of literature . |
| 16 | It is now evident in increasingly complex systems , such as the dog kidney ( ) or even in the human hand ( ) , that the release of these mediators modulates the actions of endothelin . |
| 17 | How often do you get out for a walk in the countryside or even in the local park ? |
| 18 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 19 | If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ? |
| 20 | Their masters were either dead or absent in a concentration camp , in the Polish army in the West or else in the underground army . |
| 21 | Or or certainly in the long term . |