Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The characteristic stylistic tic ‘ tout se passe comme si ’ puts their discourse technically into the mode of the hypothetical or the fictional , reflecting ‘ this curious paradox , the ardent desire for a system and the basic scepticism about all systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 2 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 3 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 4 | However , what does seem to me to be both dangerous and impermissible is the judicial superimposition , under the guise of statutory construction , of a principle , supposedly based on some parliamentary intention nowhere expressed , that genuine transactions carried out in conformity with unequivocal statutory provisions are to be annulled or rendered ineffective because undertaken with either the sole or the predominant motive of obtaining the fiscal benefits which those provisions confer . |
| 5 | As shown in Fig. 2A , two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled . |
| 6 | The notions of men and women as economic beings , or political beings , are discarded by global capitalism , quite logically , as the system does not even pretend to satisfy everyone in the economic or the political spheres . |
| 7 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 8 | Ever since its first exhibition in 1948 , which brought works by De Chirico , Man Ray , Picasso , Francis Bacon and others to the public attention , the ICA has risen to the challenge of supporting the innovative or the unfamiliar with considerable energy . |
| 9 | Individually , judges may support the Conservative or the Labour or the Liberal parties . |
| 10 | ‘ Whether under the Labour or the Conservative Government , links with the Commonwealth were regarded as precluding too close links with the countries of Europe ’ ( Kitzinger , 1961 , ) . |
| 11 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 12 | For this reason , poverty is closer to our true condition than the much-admired qualities of the rich or the powerful . |
| 13 | In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building . |
| 14 | Finally abandoning M3 , the medium-term financial strategy , and other totems , he strongly urged major cuts in public expenditure and extensive cuts in personal taxation to offer incentives for the rich or the would-be rich . |
| 15 | But the 700,000 refugees perched on either the Iraqi or the Turkish side of the mountain frontier are slow to be tempted down . |
| 16 | That is , the duodenal mucosa became more resistant to acid after a mild acid challenge , indicating that adaptive cytoprotection occurred in rats fed the linoleic or the eicosapentaenoic acid diet as observed in the oleic diet group . |
| 17 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 18 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 19 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 20 | From a production point of view , it can either be obtained ready-made from a music ‘ library ’ , or be specially recorded — whether it is music composed for the commercial or an existing piece . |
| 21 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 22 | So far as the ceremonies of investiture were concerned , he himself had lived , and could live , with either the old or the new . |
| 23 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
| 24 | You ca n't say that males , females , the old or the young a are those who , who carry on their sexual role in a regular way , or those who do it in an irregular way have a privileged point of view . |
| 25 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 26 | The Tudor Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers were all trained in the civil or the common law ; and some of them — Wolsey , More , Gardiner , Nicholas Bacon , and Egerton — were outstandingly able . ’ |
| 27 | Once a decision has been reached by the housing authority which gives rise to the temporary , the limited or the full housing duty , rights and obligations are immediately created in the field of private law . |
| 28 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 29 | The complexity of rural development everywhere , whether in the developed or the developing world , is not always realised . |
| 30 | These were not the bad nerves of the lost or the young ; O was well used to the life of the city at night . |