Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 2 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 3 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 4 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 5 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 6 | The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’ |
| 7 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 8 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 9 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 10 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 11 | So all of you in this room are either a psychocentric or probably an alocentric . |
| 12 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 13 | Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation . |
| 14 | This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale . |
| 15 | Species of Inga ( Leguminosae ) with them on their rachis have herbivore damage reduced by a third or even a half . |
| 16 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 17 | Dario Carella was n't a relative or even a friend . |
| 18 | Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative study in this work . |
| 19 | For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry . |
| 20 | In my next life I shall be a Jew or a Spaniard or an Eskimo or just a fully committed anarchist like everybody else , Alexis decided . |
| 21 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 22 | For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families . |