Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assay has been proved to provide reliable whole blood and serum concentrations that correlate well with monoclonal or polyclonal radioimmunoassay measurements carried out in renal transplant recipients . |
| 2 | Lists of stolen or lost traveller 's cheques are circulated to hotels and the cashier should consult these lists discreetly when dealing with traveller 's cheques . |
| 3 | Even though the majority of cars stolen in these so-called ‘ joy-riding ’ incidents are recovered , the cost of repairs , replacing stolen or damaged equipment and the resulting increased insurance premiums are certainly no joy for the victim . |
| 4 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 5 | Where space is really tight , or if you do n't need a 12-place setting machine , think about a slimline or compact model . |
| 6 | The usual or primary use of this word is to put clothes on yourself ( or somebody else ) , but it has other uses too , such as to dress poultry , to dress timber , to dress a window . |
| 7 | What is more , by using a more polite or polysyllabic manner of discourse , you will be telling the client so ; as well as implying that you are a loftier being which does not make for rapport . |
| 8 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | The film has been translated into almost every language in the world and whenever it is shown on , say Spanish or Austrian television , we have a steady stream of people from these countries coming within two or three weeks to see where the film was made . |
| 10 | Slate is marvellous to look at but at a marvellous price , and there is an enormous choice in ceramic tiles which can be mixed in among the terracottas for an ethnic Mexican or Provencale , Italian , Spanish or Portuguese look . |
| 11 | The absence of any authentic Spanish or Portuguese text of any of the Hague Conventions militates against their acceptance in Latin America ( and is responsible in part for the limited number of South American states which are members of the Hague Conference ) , and the Latin American attachment to the Letters Rogatory procedure proved too strong to allow a more broadly-based solution in that region . |
| 12 | If they sell someone else this week to a Spanish or Italian club ( I assume it can only be Macca or Rocastle ) then they want shooting . |
| 13 | fifty or sixty pound worth of that but which was nothing . |
| 14 | Winds will remain light and variable , and this will allow all that sunshine to warm the air nicely , temperatures getting up to a comfortable ten or eleven celsius , that 's fifty or fifty fahrenheit . |
| 15 | Two fifty or three pound |
| 16 | It ca n't be but fifty or eighty mile from here . |
| 17 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) quote a figure of fifty or more parent figures during the first five years in a residential nursery as being common . |
| 18 | By this rule a solicitor may not share or agree to share his fees with any person except : ( 1 ) another solicitor ; ( 2 ) a lawyer qualified in some foreign jurisdiction who has his principal office in that jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) the solicitor 's bona fide employee , but not in circumstances which would create a partnership with a non-solicitor ; ( 4 ) a retired partner or the dependants of a retired or deceased partner . |
| 19 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 20 | This area is the handling , in fictional or factual writing , of the speech and thoughts of people other than the author . |
| 21 | Their strategies therefore still targeted the irrationality of racist beliefs , whereas , as Omi and Win ant 's definition suggests , the fictional or metaphorical status of the category ‘ race ’ in no way undermines its symbolic and social effectuality . |
| 22 | In Amalgamemnon , Xorandor , and Verbivore the fictional or mythic nature of the simulations and abstractions we take to be fact is demonstrated by simulations of these simulations which reveal them to be discursive constructs . |
| 23 | Back at their inn , they sat quietly reflecting how little Aberdeen had offered them in terms of conversational or intellectual stimulation — or , as Boswell reported Johnson 's remark , ‘ that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin [ the Scottish word for hare ] for us to pursue ’ . |
| 24 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 25 | Where joints in metal gutters leak , try filling the joint with flexible , silicone-rubber or bituminous mastic after clearing away debris and wire-brushing the surface . |
| 26 | Employees with prolonged or repeated sickness absence are referred to the occupational health service . |
| 27 | At night : prolonged or repeated attention during the night in connection with bodily functions ; or continual supervision throughout the night in order to avoid substantial danger to the disabled person or others . |
| 28 | A person Who has plenty of stamina will have a slower and more powerful heartbeat and they will cope more easily with prolonged or heavy exertion . |
| 29 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 30 | Alternatively the precise positioning of the IE-3 site with respect to the mRNA start site may not be correct for downregulation of this promoter by the 140k protein , as a close correlation has been observed between Vmw175 mediated autorepression and the stereo-specific or distance-dependent placement of the IE-3 binding site and the TATA box ( discussion of reference 40 ) . |