Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding . |
| 2 | Sometimes , dubious studies achieve publicity or may be attractive for other , perhaps political or novelty , reasons . |
| 3 | It affected not only rural or seaside communities ( some of which were now facing a crisis with the growing attractiveness of continental holidays and the inroads made by car and caravan into the traditional domain of the seaside landlady ) , but even industrial areas , where such attractions as Big Pit at Blaenavon in South Wales paid testimony to the passing of the age of coal . |
| 4 | Larger , apparently official or public , structures have also been located within the small towns . |
| 5 | Comfort goals are very sensitive to work and domestic problems , especially personal or family illness . |
| 6 | Either the medical report was inconclusive , or ( as illustrated by the sexual abuse controversy in Cleveland in 1987 — 88 ) , medical opinion was divided as to whether or not a particular clinical sign was necessarily indicative or child abuse . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't realised your ambitions were quite so basic or mercenary , ’ said Niall drily . |
| 8 | Many respondents said that the information fails to highlight critical issues and a majority rated such information as only poor or average . |
| 9 | Add a little vanilla essence for vanilla buttercream ( about 1·25ml/¼tsp per 75g/3oz icing sugar ) , or perhaps orange or lemon juice for a citrus cream ( add 5ml/1tsp per 75g/3oz ) . |
| 10 | As we have seen , differences were made regarding the value of male sacrifices as opposed to female ones , the latter only being offered on less important or non-community based occasions . |
| 11 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 12 | So full or part time work in University excluding the former polytechnics , have no effect on your pension . |
| 13 | Cheiranthus allionii ( Siberian wallflower ) Like ordinary wallflowers , but smaller and only yellow or orange . |
| 14 | There are many instances to be found in decided cases where the right of a nation to legislate for waters more or less landlocked or land embraced , although beyond the three-mile limit , has been admitted . |
| 15 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |
| 16 | He rejected the idea that there can be any revolutionary change in society without force , even if that force is merely latent or potential : |
| 17 | This decorative weeping tree is generally evergreen or semi-evergreen . |
| 18 | You must never be rude , threatening , physically violent or insubordinate . |
| 19 | When such circuits oscillate , the waveform is far from sinusoidal , often being approximately rectangular or square . |
| 20 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 21 | LITTLE SWIFT or HOUSE SWIFT Apus affinis . |
| 22 | Like all sports , when you get keen and decide to sail all year round , including the March ‘ Frostbite ’ Racing series , you will need some good kit — preferably wet or drysuit clothing — but there is not need to rush into it . |
| 23 | The paintings were usually English or French , some oils , but watercolours for the most part — country scenes , portraits , and one strange canvas of a lady dressed in a ball gown holding a dead hare by the hind legs . |
| 24 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 25 | If the concept is viewed in this broad way , then its application to any of the diverse areas mentioned above is scarcely more self-executing or clearcut than usage of terms , such as reasonableness , which it seeks to replace . |
| 26 | And so strong is the legal culture that radical change , to make the bar and judiciary more accessible or representative , looks unlikely . |
| 27 | This is not to say that these features are not present within more clay-rich or carbonate mud-rich sediments . |
| 28 | Art , picking up confidence from the decline of religion , announces its transcendence of the world ( and it lasts , it lasts ! art beats death ! ) , but this announcement is n't accessible to all , or where accessible is n't always inspiring or welcome . |
| 29 | Information is always and only perceptible in one configuration or another , and so is always theory-driven or theory-moulded . |
| 30 | The emphasis in human understanding can be seen as top-down , or hypothesis-driven , whereas computer recognition is usually bottom-up or data-driven . |