Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 32 | His market was the world , and he was n't particularly concerned to toady either to the British or the Americans . |
| 33 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 34 | The Japanese concept of structure is different from , say , the British or the Swedish . |
| 35 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 36 | From a production point of view , it can either be obtained ready-made from a music ‘ library ’ , or be specially recorded — whether it is music composed for the commercial or an existing piece . |
| 37 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 38 | So far as the ceremonies of investiture were concerned , he himself had lived , and could live , with either the old or the new . |
| 39 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
| 40 | You ca n't say that males , females , the old or the young a are those who , who carry on their sexual role in a regular way , or those who do it in an irregular way have a privileged point of view . |
| 41 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 42 | The Tudor Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers were all trained in the civil or the common law ; and some of them — Wolsey , More , Gardiner , Nicholas Bacon , and Egerton — were outstandingly able . ’ |
| 43 | Once a decision has been reached by the housing authority which gives rise to the temporary , the limited or the full housing duty , rights and obligations are immediately created in the field of private law . |
| 44 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 45 | Can I feel more pressure on the outside or the inside of my feet ? |
| 46 | The complexity of rural development everywhere , whether in the developed or the developing world , is not always realised . |
| 47 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 48 | These were not the bad nerves of the lost or the young ; O was well used to the life of the city at night . |
| 49 | Yeah , I was always well er in that particular class from that I was always either the top of the second or the third at geography . |
| 50 | But these new sciences were not the products of developments within either the morphological or the environmentalist study of evolution . |
| 51 | A lidded box was nailed to the side of the cart where the scholarly or the rich could post written petitions for miracles . |
| 52 | Mr Berisha has no rival in either the Democratic or the Socialist Party . |
| 53 | It followed , therefore , that if the Labour Government was to secure acceptance of its economic package , it had to secure the support of MPs from either the Liberal or the Conservative party . |
| 54 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 55 | Now if our estimates , say for the marginal to consume or the incoming elasticity of demand , right if our estimates are based on a regression in which the real or the underlying marginal propensity to consume or income elasticity demand is varying from plus four to minus two , you know , is our point test generate from , from regression analysis they are going to be completely meaningless . |
| 56 | Circumstances which may lead to chronic grief or clinging , for instance , included a previous ambivalent relationship with the deceased or a previous relationship in which the survivor felt either inferior or insecure . |
| 57 | ‘ Nine times out of ten we do not know the deceased or the grieving family . |
| 58 | A married man 's pall was expected to be supported by his married friends ; if single then bachelor colleagues would perform the duty ; likewise for spinsters — but not so for children ( except in certain rural areas ) , married women or widows , when the responsibility was delegated either to adult male relatives of the deceased or the undertaker 's own men . |
| 59 | Or , come to think of it , the Fender , or the Gurian or the umm , other Martin . |
| 60 | And nor is it simply a question of numbers — among these studies are some of the subtlest , most ingenious and most penetrating essays written in our time , and the factor common to almost all , the naive or the clumsy as well as the brilliant , is the conviction explicit or implicit that Joyce is an outstanding , indeed for some the outstanding , modern writer . |