Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 2 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 3 | Instead of seeking to contain royal power they were preoccupied with gaining the favour of the Grand Prince , or control of the government when the monarch was personally weak or a minor . |
| 4 | He turned about abruptly , as if the subject was suddenly painful or an irritation . |
| 5 | Pot and container-grown plants are the most at risk ; if you grow begonias , cyclamen , coleus , primulas or fuchsias and have managed to escape this horrible little pest , you 're either extremely fortunate or a great deal craftier than I am . |
| 6 | Within the legal container of marriage , the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock . |
| 7 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 8 | The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo . |
| 9 | I did n't see her often , but whenever we met she would complain gently that they never went anywhere because Derek was always so busy or the babbas were teething or undergoing the whooping cough . |
| 10 | For the brilliantly successful or the politically fortunate there are the offices of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and about 110 superior judgeships , the latter carrying very comfortable stipends , plus pensions . |
| 11 | She would have stopped there if the adrenalin in her system had been less potent or the half-smile on his face had n't taunted her to further repartee . |
| 12 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |
| 13 | A less religious or a more sane man than the fanatic would have shut up . |
| 14 | The options are physical scraping , bleaching in situ so that the soil is no longer apparent or the realistic if expensive option of using ultrasonics if the problem has to be handled on any scale . |
| 15 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |
| 16 | The husband who is or becomes emotionally clumsy or inconsiderate , the wife who is over-demanding or nagging , the partner who is coldly disapproving or coolly unsupportive or the one who is noisily depreciatory all run the risk of becoming the " bad parent " ; the " bad parent " is not loved and the physical side of love will deteriorate . |
| 17 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 18 | I mean you 'll work out whether it 's a bit more reactive or a bit less . |
| 19 | Seldom has the time been more appropriate or the need more urgent for a Bill of this kind . |
| 20 | There remain some class differences in the proportion who take a more casual or a more planned approach to family building , and in the reliability of the methods which they use , and therefore in the proportion of unintended pregnancies . |
| 21 | They recruited their soldiers from the more adventurous or the more unruly on their route . |
| 22 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 23 | They may be geometrically related , as previously described , geometrically independent or a combination of both . |
| 24 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 25 | Take a sampling of modern preaching , for example a minister who is culturally aware or an evangelist in the classic nineteenth-century tradition . |
| 26 | We can imagine a departmental head in a local authority urging his/her staff to be the most efficient and effective , the most caring or the friendliest department . |
| 27 | Wallflowers , particularly blood-red or the salmon-red of ‘ Eastern Queen ’ , are favourites in the north . |
| 28 | For instance , if the dismissal was plainly fair or the executive lacks sufficient service to claim unfair dismissal , the first two elements may be irrelevant . |
| 29 | Was he simply crazy or the one person who knew the truth , the right way . |
| 30 | Offers made on the editorial pages need to be particularly attractive or the readers will not take the trouble to send off their stamped addressed envelope . |