Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
2 | Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) . |
3 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
4 | A Cathedral is the principal church of a Diocese , not necessarily the largest or most magnificent . |
5 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
6 | The frail or very elderly account for an increasing number of pensioners , and that emphasises the importance of nursing home and residential care . |
7 | Of the eight or so tonic preparations currently listed in Martindale 's Extra Pharmacopoeia , all contain glycerophosphate and half contain strychnine ; examples are Glytona , Glykola and Neuro Phosphates . |
8 | In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " . |
9 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
10 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
11 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
12 | Most of the 500 or so independent political units of Europe in 1500 disappeared , absorbed by their more powerful neighbours , leaving some 25 or so victors . |
13 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
14 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
15 | But run too far in unsuitable shoes , whether the cheapest or most expensive on the market , and your feet will tell you . |
16 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
17 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
18 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
19 | Qualities of persistence and determination when confronted by the evasive or blatantly unco-operative now assume considerable significance . |
20 | The 300 or so remaining tigers in Russia are also being killed . |
21 | At present , almost 80% of the 280 or so necessary legislative measures have been adopted and by the end of the year it is expected to be 90% . |
22 | At the time of purchase the fragments were erroneously assembled into a sea battle , but reassembly of the forty or so small pieces has revealed a land battle scene , the only one known painted on a papyrus , substantially preserved in two areas . |
23 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
24 | Of the 300,000 or so American troops based in Europe until the start of the Gulf crisis last summer , perhaps only 100,000 , maybe fewer , are expected to remain . |
25 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
26 | Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today . |
27 | His neat modern home — his study stuffed with the 100 or so original runners for the 1989 Booker Prize , whose judging panel he is chairing — is still close to the University of Birmingham , where he became Professor of English in 1976 , but he took early retirement two years ago . |
28 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
29 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
30 | Polls suggested that the key election issue for voters , however , was the 8,000 or so homeless people estimated to be sleeping rough within the city . |