Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 2 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 3 | The frail or very elderly account for an increasing number of pensioners , and that emphasises the importance of nursing home and residential care . |
| 4 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 5 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 6 | But in the Cambrian or earlier the chordates no doubt included animals little more highly organized than the contemporary arthropods or brachiopods . |
| 7 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 8 | But I do n't think that a committee meeting is the proper or best place to discuss this , do you ? |
| 9 | Far better to await a further sharp drop in mortgage rates into the high or even middling single digits . |
| 10 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Qualities of persistence and determination when confronted by the evasive or blatantly unco-operative now assume considerable significance . |
| 12 | These swimming habits go back into the Palaeozoic , to the Carboniferous or earlier . |
| 13 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 14 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
| 15 | The more the inmates came to consist of the impotent or temporarily incapacitated , the greater became the gap between intent and reality . |
| 16 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
| 17 | It can be disconcerting at auction if the vendor or agents acting on the vendor 's behalf bid up the price from the floor in the early or even later stages of the auction . |
| 18 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 19 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 20 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 21 | This year — 1991 — results have been quite different and we have had a heavy crop , 70% of which was in the large or very large grades and the berries were full of juice and flavour . |
| 22 | Any individual is at liberty to visit the offices of the local planning authority and ask to see the monthly or bimonthly list of planning applications that have been submitted . |
| 23 | It is suitable for the cold or lightly heated aquarium . |
| 24 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 25 | Frequently we stopped , turned and went back for another try to the left or right Our order did not change , with Odd-Knut out in front , then Tony and Nathan , and me bringing the line to an end . |
| 26 | If you pass over a tab stop as you move to the left or right , that tab stop will be deleted |
| 27 | For weaving and punch lace you can in theory have either the left or right light on , though most patterns have been designed with one or more in mind as indicated by the pattern sheets or books concerned . |
| 28 | On the Toyota , turn the selection dial to Empty , but NOT the central empty position — choose the left or right one . |
| 29 | The green figure was equally likely to be on the left or right , and 50% of the probes matched in both cases . |
| 30 | All the best rocking horses have heads which look to the left or right , and this angling is well worth the small extra trouble since it does give the finished horse a little more ‘ life ’ . |