Example sentences of "[art] [det] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 2 | Those are the more or less the five variations on a theme . |
| 3 | So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department . |
| 4 | I said the more or less , so I got the in it ? . |
| 5 | They are far from being the same or even similar , and you can check this by comparing the analysis on the packets . |
| 6 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 7 | But 20 years on , things seem to be much the same or even worse — Cosmopolitan now subsidises its middle-of-the-road feminism with ads for depilatories and cosmetic surgery and my daughter , now a Famous Five fan herself , identifies with Anne not George . |
| 8 | To compare this situation with using two or three small ovens , the capital outlay may be the same or even less , but running costs , especially during the quiet period , will be considerably less . |
| 9 | Usually , all rules begin with the same or nearly equal weights . |
| 10 | It is obvious enough that a neocortex would be useless if all its neurons responded to the same or strongly similar features , so decorrelation is useful for this purpose , but it also confers another great advantage . |
| 11 | If you are retaining your previous FMS drivers because they are the same or later than those shipped with LIFESPAN , you must check that they are installed /OPEN/SHARED , and that they have world read and execute access enabled . |
| 12 | In some passerine species it even justifies slightly larger clutches than are found in the same or closely related species of lower latitudes ( Ricklefs , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | In a similar survey undertaken in 1974 , Greeley found the effectiveness of catholic schools either the same or slightly increased . |
| 14 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 15 | A typical approach is to assume a ratio of hydrogen to helium which is the same or fairly similar to that measured in the atmosphere , and to assume that there is a small fraction of heavier elements and their compounds which may be concentrated in a core or dispersed to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 16 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 17 | If the elements placed in theme position in the source text can easily and naturally be placed in theme position in the target text , the method of development of the two texts will be the same or very similar . |
| 18 | If there are too many hypotheses with the same or very similar scores , and the cost of the path increases with its length then the algorithm will explore the search space on a broad front , regardless of the accuracy of the estimate . |
| 19 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 20 | The justice will then either form one of the opinions set out in subsection ( 5 ) , and if he does so , go on to decide whether to remand the defendant in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , or if the justice feels unable to form one of the opinions set out in the subsection , he will order the defendant to be released on bail on the same terms as were originally imposed . |
| 21 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 22 | News that standards had stayed the same or actually fell in several instances is pretty alarming , especially the apparent deterioration in reading skills among less able pupils . |
| 23 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 24 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 25 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 26 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed the end of the Lay Folks ' Catechism says no more or less , essentially , than they do : |