Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 2 | So the demise of a flat or a particular floor of a building will include a roof space accessible only from that flat where there is no reservation to the landlord of any rights relating to the roof space ( Hatfield v Moss [ 1988 ] 40 EG 122 ) . |
| 3 | The broad-minded opinions and solid common sense of this robust story-teller are expressed sometimes in dialogue in which officers ( and , interestingly , sometimes officers and men ) exchange views on slave-trading , naval punishments , privateering , or discuss the attributes of a good or a bad captain . |
| 4 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 5 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 6 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 7 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 8 | Yet depending upon what A is , the phrase in question can be used to assert the numerical identity of a particular or the qualitative identity of a species . |
| 9 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 10 | Persons found guilty of a corrupt or an illegal practice on prosecution therefore , or by an election court ( contesting the validity of the ‘ election ’ of a candidate ) may be disqualified . |
| 11 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 12 | Edward felt like a colonial or a schoolboy , and it irked . |
| 13 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
| 14 | Whereas the priests told him that he must die and would go either to heaven or to hell , the singers of songs told him that , though he must die , his name need not and that it was up to him whether he left behind a good or an evil reputation . |
| 15 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 16 | None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge . |
| 17 | A legal estate is the right to possess land for a determinate or an indefinite period of time . |
| 18 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 19 | That 's what I said , to do that and hope for a three or a six or another five or a king . |
| 20 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 21 | The information contained on Form BD8 was previously the main criterion for deciding whether a pupil required education in a special school or an ordinary school , and whether the pupil should be referred to and educated as a blind or a partially sighted child . |
| 22 | In English , there is at least an indirect formal reflexion of the difference , in that the phrase an old friend has as its opposite either a new friend or a young friend , depending on whether it is used as a separative or an ordinary attributive adjective . |
| 23 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 24 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 25 | Though she did not know it , for Clare there had been no choice except between a swift or a lingering death . |
| 26 | You will be able to choose between a single or a double oven , with an eye-level grill or a grill at waist level , often set into a small top oven . |
| 27 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 28 | For the very large corporations , six figure salaries , ‘ starting with a two or a three ’ are not unusual . |
| 29 | Thereafter , you adopt a wholefood diet with a little or no dairy products and no more than one cup of coffee or two cups of tea a day . |
| 30 | All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias . |