Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative study in this work . |
| 2 | The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’ |
| 3 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 4 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 5 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 6 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 7 | First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 8 | The status of the foreign minister as merely a high-ranking bureaucrat meant that the diplomats whom he directed , and in particular the heads of the more important Russian missions abroad , often looked on him as more or less an equal and hardly as a superior at all . |
| 9 | Ed 's comment : Great care must be taken to ensure that the rocks used have no hidden cavities which might cause cracking or even an explosion when overheated . |
| 10 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 11 | So all of you in this room are either a psychocentric or probably an alocentric . |