Example sentences of "[noun prp] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 2 | Indubitably , Buzzcocks will hardly figure strongly — or even weakly — in the NME poll , and in these dark days when Patti Smith , Loudon Wainwright or even the New York Dolls fail to make any impact on Radio One DJs , common sense is therefore not so common . |
| 3 | The race is held on a Sunday , but people travel to the village on the Saturday or even the Friday . |
| 4 | Disappearance of their dominance would lead to a unified Ireland or else the restructuring of a new statelet with smaller geographical boundaries in which their dominance was again reassured . |
| 5 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
| 6 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 7 | But while Scotland 's wilderness areas are still not as overcrowded and overdeveloped as Yosemite or even the Lakes , the damage is there for all to see . |
| 8 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 9 | Few pilots are in this game for the glory or so — called glamour , but because we are inextricably dedicated to the sport of aerobatics , and we have an insatiable desire to one day bring home a Gold , Silver or even a Bronze . |
| 10 | Passing new laws was not a common occurrence , and the Commons usually left the conduct of day-to-day policy , especially in foreign affairs , to the King and his council , with complete certainty that this small body was better informed than the Commons or even the average members of the House of Lords . |
| 11 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 12 | Barlaston could be described as the Gettysburg or even the Stalingrad battle for preservation in England , the place where against overwhelming and continuous odds an outstanding building has been preserved and revived . |
| 13 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 14 | The Literary Lionisers , or those who had survived the damp morning walk to Ramsgate along the sands ( in the steps of the great Dickens on his walk with Hans Christian Andersen ) , were equally divided as to those who wished no more to do with the Imperial , Broadstairs or indeed the Lionisers , those to whom the sudden disappearance of their leader was an added bonus , and those who were determined not to miss what they had already paid for . |
| 15 | Opinions range from the circle of Mantegna to Antonio Lombardo or even a Milanese follower of Leonardo , but the absence of comparative material makes it difficult to pin the bronze down . |
| 16 | I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB . |
| 17 | Trailers , commercials , even turgid travelogues whet my appetite exactly as intended , and the sight of the MGM lion , the Pearly Dean Gates or even the Pathe cockerel gives the quiet hum of anticipation one usually associates with meditating monks . |
| 18 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 19 | There was evidently some dilemma in Gould 's mind as to whether a work on the birds of Europe or just the birds of Britain would prove most lucrative . |
| 20 | How do you feel about the possible threat of intervention from from Europe or even a High Court action ? |
| 21 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 22 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 23 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 24 | Where it 's already got A C G just after , is that the C O C T one , Jayne or just a careers officer one ? |
| 25 | the seams , however , neat , will be improved by a deliberate decoration , for example , some matching bought braid , a long plait which could end in a tassel at the floor end , or a further narrow piece of matching Fair Isle or even a different woven pattern , stitched on to conceal the join . |
| 26 | John Pilger may point us back to the lessons of Vietnam or even the Falklands , but we also live day-to-day with distorted coverage of Ireland and it does n't seem to bother us too much . |
| 27 | And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er . |
| 28 | Where the force of the challenge has been felt in theology , it has led not only to a more sober evaluation of man 's spiritual and ethical potential , and to more serious reflection on the meaning of human sin , but also to a widespread doubt whether theology itself could really be solidly built on the basis sketched by a Ritschl or even a Schleiermacher . |