Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught a glimpse of the mast , a cable or two downwind , and it began to dawn on him that they had lost sight of him . |
| 2 | Socially this is a serious problem because most of these countries were experiencing housing stress of one kind or another even before the recent downturn in house production . |
| 3 | Not being taken in by the belief that " help " of one kind or another really is helpful : it may actually hinder someone else 's growth towards maturity . |
| 4 | The ‘ truth ’ is then assigned to one level or another yet although these effects may be real , different people will attribute the ‘ true ’ cause to different levels . |
| 5 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 6 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 7 | She moved across the carpet , positioning herself a foot or two away . |
| 8 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 9 | It is a good idea not to eat for an hour or two beforehand , or you may end up with some serious indigestion . |
| 10 | And an hour or two later I shall leave them feeling considerably older and wiser than they were when I started . |
| 11 | An hour or two here , max , is all it takes . |
| 12 | Usually a woman 's face , like the face of the girl in the coffee bar an hour or two ago . |
| 13 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 14 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 15 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 16 | Called for lunch , he kept answering , ‘ Yes , I 'm coming , ’ and often did n't put in an appearance until an hour or more later . |
| 17 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 18 | No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men . |
| 19 | A sentence or two later — and unfortunately all the evidence suggests that few readers get that far — they would have been informed that the hitherto obscure ‘ Cosmic Background Explorer ’ satellite , known to astronomical aficionados as ‘ Cobe ’ , had discovered mysterious ripples in the equally mysterious cosmic microwave background radiation . |
| 20 | His application of the variation principle to plainsong , Lutheran hymns , and Huguenot psalms goes far beyond the ‘ organ hymns ’ and versets of earlier generations , and differs from his secular variations in that the basic melody is generally preserved intact as cantus firmus in one part or another throughout . |
| 21 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 22 | i watched the game at a sports pub here in Trondheim with lots of other Leeds-fans and i think a saw an ipswich shirt or two also ; - ) — in fact the Scandinavian Whites is the third largest supporter club in Scand. — after Scum and Liverpool . |
| 23 | At the same time Christians are committed to caring and compassionate action to help those who are homosexual , and all who suffer from AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease . |
| 24 | First preheat the oven to 180°C ( 350°F/Gas Mark 4 ) , and grease and line the required tins — in the case of this basic quantity , two sandwich or one deep 18 or 20cm ( 7 or 8inch ) round tin(s) or two sandwich or one deep 15 or 18cm ( 6 or 7inch ) square tin(s) . |
| 25 | First preheat the oven to 180°C ( 350°F/Gas Mark 4 ) , and grease and line the required tins — in the case of this basic quantity , two sandwich or one deep 18 or 20cm ( 7 or 8inch ) round tin(s) or two sandwich or one deep 15 or 18cm ( 6 or 7inch ) square tin(s) . |
| 26 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 27 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 28 | There is a chapter or two yet to be written . ’ |
| 29 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 30 | ‘ Overt violence or other potentially injurious coercion is not to be used before noninjurious coercion has been exhausted ’ Bernard Berelson ( ex-President of the Population Council ) and Jonathan Lieberson |