Example sentences of "of [adj] or [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few military theorists — Saxe in his Rêveries ( 1757 ) , Justus Möser in his Patriotische Phantasien ( 1775–1804 ) , Guibert in his Essai générale de tactique ( 1772 ) — as well as political writers such as Montesquieu , Morellet and Mably , might advocate some form of extensive or even universal service ; but there was no serious possibility of their ideas being adopted by any government . |
| 2 | Taxation is designed to ensure that the losing party only has to pay those expenses properly incurred and is not saddled with the cost of unnecessary or unduly expensive work . |
| 3 | The remnant of a larger lake that once filled the surrounding valley , it has a superficial layer of fresh or slightly saline water down to 50 m deep , replenished seasonally by glacial streams , notably Onyx River , and stirred by their turbulence . |
| 4 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 5 | Even the provision of free or almost free housing leaves the farm worker no better off when comparisons are made with workers elsewhere , for the latter often receive benefits — cheap meals , pension funds , medical facilities , etc. — unavailable to farm workers . |
| 6 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 7 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 8 | Few delegates have such an overview of national or even international activity in the subject . |
| 9 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 10 | Although equivalent to the distance from Ayr to Portsmouth , the 420 miles on a busy route through a pleasant , well-populated region of flat or slightly undulating land , stippled with woodlands and attractive lakes , was barely a warm-up for what lay ahead . |
| 11 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 12 | Note-successions can be exactly the same ( as in the series ) , but it is their rhythmic configuration which determines whether they form melody of classical or completely non-classical character . |
| 13 | The major social base of European racist movements such as the French National Front appears to be in the native working class , the major activists or such movements appear to be working-class young men — skinheads and the like — and a long era of full or virtually guaranteed employment ended , in western Europe during the 1970s , in central and eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s . |
| 14 | The hardware , such as x ray , theatre , and laboratory equipment , is still of Chinese or even Russian origin , with some items being over 40 years old . |
| 15 | Similarly , there is an array of products for producing the body beautiful , a tall elegant figure disdainful of practical or even biological constraint . |
| 16 | The virtue of immediate or shortly forthcoming abolition of the trade abolitionists proclaimed as an act of justice and humanity which at the same time offered the greatest stimulus to reform of slavery on the plantations . |
| 17 | Simple measures such as keeping doors and windows closed , providing adequate containers for odorous material , covering the contents , refrigeration where necessary and the careful disposal of odorous or potentially odorous waste , are just a few preventative measures which ought to be taken in all trades , but particularly so in the animal byproduct industry , where putrescible matter is concerned . |
| 18 | There is still a lot of spare or marginally used land in Texas . |
| 19 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 20 | the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ; |
| 21 | School parties of 20 or more Upper Balcony @ 50p per seat . |
| 22 | Recent studies on some ASFV mRNAs suggest that they start a short distance ( less than a 100 bp ) upstream of the corresponding ORF ( 30-32 ) , and that they end at runs of seven or more consecutive thymidylate residues ( 7T motif ; 30 , 31 ) . |
| 23 | To make 1 lb. approximately , ingredients are : 2 large lemons , preferably thick-skinned ; ½ lb. loaf sugar ; 4 whole large eggs ; ¼ lb. of unsalted or slightly salted butter . |