Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most ethical intuitionists came to think that what the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy established was not so much that good is indefinable as that ethical expressions are either indefinable or only satisfactorily definable in terms which involve some other distinctively ethical expression . |
| 2 | It is all very well for modern econometric historians to argue retrospectively that slave or serf agriculture was actually more profitable or even more efficient than agriculture manned by free labour . |
| 3 | It could not be rigged for political or even more unworthy reasons . |
| 4 | We can legitimately think of an ants nest as a civilization : its members carry out highly specific or even very generalized tasks in pursuit of the common good . |
| 5 | By the same token , certain curriculum areas ( notably topic work and art ) might be seen as of tow priority and requiring little more than occasional and cursory monitoring by the teacher , with the result that unless the tasks set have an exceptionally high combination of challenge , motivating power and self-monitoring potential , children may spend excessive amounts of time either off-task or only partially engaged , or undertaking low-level learning . |
| 6 | Erm , wh most of these criticisms would become far more exaggerated or far more relevant if you considered what happens in the real world . |
| 7 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 8 | The jaws appear to be as long as broad or slightly longer . |
| 9 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 10 | The secretion of amylase , however , was normal or less severely impaired than the secretion of lipase or of proteolytic enzymes in pancreatic disease in a number of other studies . |
| 11 | The Bölkow 207 is a very desirable , capable aeroplane : able to carry four people and their luggage in excellent comfort for a reasonable distance at a respectable speed ; capable of getting into and out of quite small airfields or airstrips ; capable of fingertip handling which is both very stable or very sprightly ; capable of convincing this air-tester that there is another 180 hp Lycoming-engined wooden aeroplane which might just , in certain areas , be equal to or ( whisper it quietly ! ) even better than another , similar-powered , big wooden aeroplane with bent wings . |
| 12 | The US dollar and the euro-currency markets were the main providers of additional liquidity , and therefore liquidity provided by the IMF was regarded as unnecessary or even potentially inflationary . |
| 13 | As a result of these , ten percent of children go to special schools — e.g. The Petö Institute or schools catering for the blind , deaf or moderately mentally handicapped . |
| 14 | Laughter is a marvellous preventative medicine whether you feel low or not always it does you good if you take yourself off to the nearest comedy film or show . |
| 15 | It also contains certain diagnostics to deal with unexpected conditions such as too low or too high an illumination level . |
| 16 | Even where faith is weak or even wrongly based , it is not necessarily illegitimate . |
| 17 | Appearance faults , according to the Breed Standard , include the following : Light , tall , greyhound-like in general appearance ; too long , too short , narrow body ; prominent occipital bone ; hound-like head and expression ; narrow , light , too short , too long , or coarse head ; flat forehead ( little or no stop ) ; narrow lower jaw ; long or pointed muzzle ; cheeks too protruding ; ram 's or split nose , bridge or nose dished or sloping ; tip of nose light or spotted ; open , pink or spotted lips , corners of the mouth open ; distemper teeth ; wrinkles on the head ; ears set too low , large , long , floppy , turned back , not lying close , or irregularly carried ; light ( yellow ) eyes , or a light and a dark eye , open , deep-set , too full , round , staring eyes , piercing gaze ; neck too long , thick , weak muscled , dewlaps or loose skin on throat ; forelegs set narrow or not straight ; light nails ; tail set too high or too low ; coat soft , too short or too long , wavy coat , absence of undercoat ; markings of the wrong colour , poorly defined or too extensive ; white spots ; dewclaws on the hind legs . |
| 18 | Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable . |
| 19 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 20 | Many of Morse 's ideas were either so strange or so wildly improbable that most of them were always doomed to early disappointment . |
| 21 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 22 | Particularly striking exemplars are the penannular neck ornaments or torcs , the hoops of which were hollow or more often formed of twisted rods or finer wires , having loop terminals decorated by lost-wax casting combined with surface tooling ( fig. 19 ) . |
| 23 | You know where he lives in England we 're very quite a generally quite a tolerant or comparatively quite a tolerant society . |
| 24 | For those alarmed , mystified or just inexplicably fascinated by the whys and wherefores of the Data Protection Act , the Data protection Registrar is holding a series of free one-day seminars on ‘ Understanding Data Protection ’ around the country in March . |
| 25 | However , the view of style adopted here implies that it has many mundane aspects , and that style is not simply a property of poetic or even just literary texts . |
| 26 | Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance . |
| 27 | Of these , a quarter took exception to general unfriendliness among the staff and management , while 16% found the staff ‘ offhand , indifferent , surly or even downright offensive and insulting ’ . |
| 28 | What we study follows from theoretical or more broadly , disciplinary concerns rather than technical matters . |
| 29 | Whether a particular level of credit payments should be seen as high or not obviously depends on the consumer 's income . |
| 30 | Has very erect carriage , holding head high or even slightly backwards ; runs very fast and does not squat but stands upright when stops . |