Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can apply only where the expression of the legislative intention is genuinely ambiguous or obscure or where a literal or prima facie construction leads to a manifest absurdity and where the difficulty can be resolved by a clear statement directed to the matter in issue . |
| 2 | To the west was the junction , where a thousand or more trucks were marshalled daily and where the cattle docks lay , and the machinery supplying the motive power for the hydraulic cranes , capstans , and traversers . |
| 3 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 4 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 5 | Where a relative or friend of a person in custody inquires as to his whereabouts , that person should normally be told unless the detainee objects or unless any of the factors , noted above , justifying delay , apply . |
| 6 | Where a false or misleading statement is made in the course of an estate agency business or a property development business , otherwise in providing conveyancing services , the person by whom the business is carried on shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | But in so far as his criticism is based on the right to freedom of expression and its particular relevance where a local or central government authority is concerned , I consider that aspect in the next section of this judgment . |
| 8 | Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin . |
| 9 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 10 | Nor for that matter could Wiltshire clothiers , for , although a dozen or more were rated for the Anticipation at upwards of £100 , the highest was only £250 : for some reason the great William Stumpe of Malmesbury was not assessed . |
| 11 | Theoretically , it will run on a PC/XT 8088 based machine , although a 386 or 486 machine is recommended . |
| 12 | The alternative approach to competition policy involves the government trying to influence the structure of the market in which the firm is operating — in other words , creating an environment in which a competitive structure , rather than a monopolistic or oligopolistic one , is more likely to exist . |
| 13 | My message therefore , boring but always to be heeded , is ‘ watch your credit control , say NO more often , ask for increased payments more often , use the reference bureaux more often , if in doubt say no — cash in the company is better than a lazy or non repaying loan . ' |
| 14 | ‘ The world crisis is thus in my view basically a moral rather than a political or economic crisis . ’ |
| 15 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 16 | Such integration may be seen as reinforcing an allegiant rather than a neutral or alienated orientation to the political system . |
| 17 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
| 18 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 19 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 20 | The official attitude to British Jewry taken by the BUF saw Jews in terms of a national rather than a religious or racial issue . |
| 21 | An eighteen or nineteen-year-old is usually much more mature than a fourteen or fifteen-year-old , and may even be contemplating marriage by this time . |
| 22 | Visually it is less tiring for the eye to follow a smooth than a serrated or intermittent line . |
| 23 | If you are short of space , try using a round table as it will seat more people than a square or rectangular table of the same surface area . |
| 24 | Ives 's Three Places in New England also had a philosophical , meditative character , rather than a passionate or temperamental one . |
| 25 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 26 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 27 | Many part-time mature graduates are relatively limited to a local labour market rather than a national or international one , and this probably influences the behaviour of both employers and graduates . |
| 28 | He was a socialist , a democratic reformer rather than a Marxist or revolutionary syndicalist , and believed passionately in the transforming power of secular education . |
| 29 | If the images are confined to a box area covering no more than a 15 or 20 per cent of the whole screen , the data volumes required are again correspondingly reduced . |
| 30 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |