Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 2 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 3 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 4 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 5 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ? |
| 7 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 8 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 9 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 10 | General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore ! |
| 11 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 12 | Therefore the dojo is treated with great reverence and respect , whether it is a room within a sports complex or simply a disused garage . |
| 13 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
| 14 | The point is however that Olympia was not a classic nude or even a high-class courtisane , but as Clark notes , a ‘ fille publique ’ , ‘ a faubourienne ’ . |
| 15 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 16 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |
| 17 | I could not imagine a German , Italian or even a Frenchman being so patient in such a discussion . |
| 18 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 19 | Very or only a little ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This friction between her and your mother — was it really important or just a manifestation of teenage rebellion ? ’ |
| 21 | For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry . |
| 22 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 23 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 24 | Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation . |
| 25 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 26 | In my next life I shall be a Jew or a Spaniard or an Eskimo or just a fully committed anarchist like everybody else , Alexis decided . |
| 27 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 28 | For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families . |
| 29 | This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale . |
| 30 | Dario Carella was n't a relative or even a friend . |