Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |
| 2 | Analysts believe it will pave the way for further cuts if the Conservatives retain power but fear a victory for Labour or a hung parliament could lead to higher interest rates . |
| 3 | A vote for Labour or the Liberal Democrats will take Mr Kinnock to Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 4 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 5 | It is of limited or no benefit for a current mood swing . |
| 6 | Sexual acts outside marriage are wrong , whether between those of opposite or the same sex . |
| 7 | Bleeding from peptic ulcer persists or recurs early in 25% of cases , which carries a high death rate related to the severity of bleeding or the need for surgical treatment . |
| 8 | This extension of provision , encouraged by central government paying fees through supplementary benefit , drew a number of people of modest or no private means into the private sector . |
| 9 | Many officials believed that ‘ as a rule , men of inferior or no education and of low morals resort to petition-drawing as a means of livelihood . ’ |
| 10 | The Secretary of State for Wales was authorised to give financial assistance to LEAs for the teaching of Welsh or the use of Welsh as a medium for teaching other subjects . |
| 11 | If someone is finding words burdensome he may need an introduction to the prayer of quiet or the Jesus Prayer . |
| 12 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 13 | He landed down wind ( not that there was much wind ) , but he landed very carefully and taxied with his tail up to where I was standing , roughly about halfway or a little more up the runway . |
| 14 | Farming areas having permanent natural handicaps , viz. poor land with limited or no potential for increased production except at excessive cost . |
| 15 | The term ‘ special children ’ immediately brings to mind certain groups of children : those with limited or no sight who can be provided with materials in an appropriate form — books in large print , books to be read with trained finger-tips , books to be heard ; those with hearing impairment who can fully utilize print and picture materials but who may not be given access to music ( the value of such access is demonstrated by the career of the distinguished percussionist Evelyn Glennie ) . |
| 16 | Firstly , a company would only be able to issue preference shares with limited or no voting rights up to 50% of its issued share capital and , if the preference dividends were not paid for three years , the shares would then acquire full voting rights . |
| 17 | This distinguished between the temporary unemployment of skilled workers in periods of depression and the permanent underemployment of others in a labour market overstocked with workers with limited or no skills . |
| 18 | But in these cases , the cylindrical columns are replaced by slender vaulting shafts with tiny or no capitals and arcade piers with no break of any kind before the arch . |
| 19 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 20 | An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others . |
| 21 | Second , to provide that existing conditions on a mineral planning permission can be changed with reduced or no compensation payable , provided the changes do not affect certain fundamental elements of the permission . |
| 22 | You see brown , that brown will go with grey or a , or a dark colour . |
| 23 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of them return with minimum or no mutation at all , ’ Gilbert mumbled from his seat . |
| 25 | Addressing party workers in Richmond , south-west London , a key Liberal Democrat target seat , he urged floating voters not to be frightened about voting Liberal Democrat by scare stories from Labour or the Tories . |
| 26 | Join them at Queen 's Pier in Central or the Aberdeen Marina Club to be transported by traditional Chinese junks to the nirvana of the South China Sea 's myriad peaceful islands , which form most of the colony . |
| 27 | It will not be a perfect signal everywhere — and by ‘ perfect ’ they mean as good and reliable listening as you get from long-wave or a cassette . |
| 28 | soc : Do you mean science in general or a particular image of ‘ hard ’ science like economics with all its equations . |
| 29 | Is it enough for society in general or the patient in particular to leave decisions over life and death to the doctor ? |
| 30 | There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit . |