Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the Normal or Gaussian curve and represents the distribution of events due to chance . |
| 2 | This is the Normal or Gaussian curve and represents the distribution of events due to chance . |
| 3 | Permanent consumption can be thought of as the normal or planned level of spending out of permanent income and can differ from measured consumption ( C ) by any unplanned , temporary increases or decreases in consumer spending , called transitory consumption ( CT ) . |
| 4 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 5 | A computer word holds a fixed number of bits , in a range from about 12 to 64 , and we number these bit positions consecutively , starting at zero at the right-hand or least-significant end . |
| 6 | And the available reservoirs of good sense and good humour vary too with the class to be taught , and the short-term or long-term history the teacher has had with it . |
| 7 | The displaced or externalised mother or father figure ( including , of course , the state ) can be seen as a repository of tradition and culture , again regulating people 's innate drives towards survival and genetic representation in later generations . |
| 8 | For most people , change of type or tenure of housing has been relatively infrequent once they have obtained a home of their own in either the owner-occupied or local authority sectors . |
| 9 | Over 90 per cent will subsequently obtain a home of their own in either the owner-occupied or local authority sectors ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | It is therefore usually the case that even more archaeological sites are destroyed on river gravels than on the hilly or mountainous ground where stone is generally quarried . |
| 11 | As Kay and King ( 1986 ) stress , ‘ what matters from the point of view of social and economic policy is not the progressive or regressive impact of every individual element of the tax system but the impact of that system as a whole ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 12 | We acknowledge that stroke patients may be classified in the progressive or non-progressive disorder category . |
| 13 | Alternatively the precise positioning of the IE-3 site with respect to the mRNA start site may not be correct for downregulation of this promoter by the 140k protein , as a close correlation has been observed between Vmw175 mediated autorepression and the stereo-specific or distance-dependent placement of the IE-3 binding site and the TATA box ( discussion of reference 40 ) . |
| 14 | The recovery technique from either the low or high pitch case is in the same order : 1 — Power . |
| 15 | Hennion 's account of popular song form accepts , in both words and music , a similar dialectic of the known — clichéd frameworks and transparent effects — and the striking or illuminating detail ( Hennion 1983 : 171–82 ) . |
| 16 | It is unfortunate that Frey gets caught up in talk of ‘ sensory data ’ for it tends to deflect attention towards the workings of ‘ inner ’ sense and away from the whole context of the appetitive or like behaviour of the animal or human being . |
| 17 | Indeed , breaches of international law are just as important , as evidence of the need to make the political or moral case , and as evidence of the ‘ illegality ’ of the opposing case . |
| 18 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 19 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 20 | However , he emphasised that the controversial policy of his predecessor , Virgilio Barco Vargas , to extradite drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States , would not be the sole or primary weapon in the campaign against the drug cartels . |
| 21 | Because neither business organizations nor the public regard the maximization of owners ’ profit as the only legitimate aim of business , distributable profit can no longer be regarded as the sole or premier indicator of performance . |
| 22 | The conviction that weight , shape , or thinness can serve as the sole or predominant referant for inferring personal value or self-worth is central to anorexia nervosa . |
| 23 | They deprive officers of the interrogation that is often the sole or main purpose behind an individual 's detention . |
| 24 | Most assets acquired from connected persons , or sold or leased back or acquired with the sole or main purpose of claiming the new allowance , will also be ineligible . |
| 25 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |
| 26 | " Conspiracy to injure " is another civil wrong which can be invoked against media falsehoods although it requires proof of an agreement where the sole or dominant purpose is to injure the plaintiff . |
| 27 | It was whole societies that were being democratized , and it was often the case that the extension of the franchise followed upon this process and reflected it , rather than being the sole or dominant issue in the nineteenth-century debate on democracy . |
| 28 | These reception centres are also used for the temporary care of children where it is necessary to change the foster or other home . |
| 29 | and again : " when I make use of the word people , I do not mean the vulgar or mixed multitude " . |
| 30 | These figures show that the small surpluses and deficits that appear in government budget accounts ( sec Table 8.2 ) are quite misleading indicators of the inflationary or deflationary stance of the Yugoslav public sector . |