Example sentences of "[adj] or an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , even if you go for a , a Chinky or an Indian it 's
2 This spell enables the caster to transport a friendly or an enemy unit or a single model up to 18″ across the table in any direction .
3 Something 's got ta go , whether you give permission before this or an appeal .
4 Control slides were stained with either TRIS buffered saline or an isotype matched monoclonal antibody ( anti-cytokeratin , 1/100 , Dako ) .
5 So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities .
6 He turned about abruptly , as if the subject was suddenly painful or an irritation .
7 Very commonplace today go in to Thomas Cook 's there 'll be a video running continually with one destination or another or an activity holiday etcetera .
8 A visit when someone is sick or an invitation to coffee is far more appreciated — and remembered — than a call to discuss committee problems .
9 If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break .
10 Reference to the appropriate data track The timing here depends on whether the record in question is stored on a prime or an overflow track .
11 Quotes also a useful tool — not yours , but those of a satisfied customer , of the person concerned or an expert in the field .
12 Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ?
13 The decision to apply for a place in a residential care home is very often a traumatic one , whether it is a planned or an emergency admission .
14 Agency findings could be set aside if they were found to be ‘ arbitrary , capricious or an abuse of discretion . ’
15 It is certainly possible to identify the features of a racist aesthetic or an antiracist philosophical practice , for example , and to assess the contribution which a particular work makes to their development .
16 We must learn to live without a theological faith in the working class as either a revolutionary or an antiracist agent .
17 By buying a £1 ticket , racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race and , if it wins , they are guaranteed a return of 4-1 whether the horse is odds-on or an outsider .
18 Are you a Marxist or an anti-Marxist ?
19 Ah now you have n't got an adjacent or an opposite with Pythagoras .
20 Take a sampling of modern preaching , for example a minister who is culturally aware or an evangelist in the classic nineteenth-century tradition .
21 Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman 's discomfort with the beads of meaning .
22 Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse .
23 I 'd have to be insane or an imbecile to do such a thing . ’
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