Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It affected not only rural or seaside communities ( some of which were now facing a crisis with the growing attractiveness of continental holidays and the inroads made by car and caravan into the traditional domain of the seaside landlady ) , but even industrial areas , where such attractions as Big Pit at Blaenavon in South Wales paid testimony to the passing of the age of coal . |
| 2 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 3 | If the concept is viewed in this broad way , then its application to any of the diverse areas mentioned above is scarcely more self-executing or clearcut than usage of terms , such as reasonableness , which it seeks to replace . |
| 4 | The Manila stockmarket is not particularly deep or liquid . |
| 5 | She told me about the Sheikhas of Al Ain , which were good and which were not truly hospitable or kind . |
| 6 | This leads to the concept of secondary reinforcement , in that things that are not actually drive- or need-reducing , but are consistently associated with the things which reduce the stimuli associated with the drive , can become reinforcing through this association and themselves reduce drive-stimuli . |
| 7 | While they might find ‘ delinquent ’ behaviour , in its many manifestations , irritating , as the role of juvenile labour in the production process was always either peripheral or auxiliary , the ‘ delinquency ’ was more than compensated for by the advantages of using young workers who were cheap , malleable , non-unionized , easy to recruit and just as easy to dismiss . |
| 8 | Most African sculpture is not in this category , as characteristically the masks and ritual objects of Africa are more evidently human or animal in appearance . |
| 9 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 10 | You tend to find that groups , if you 've got a group who 're gon na launch a bomb y'know that that groups make far more risky or dicy de decisions than individuals . |
| 11 | Art , picking up confidence from the decline of religion , announces its transcendence of the world ( and it lasts , it lasts ! art beats death ! ) , but this announcement is n't accessible to all , or where accessible is n't always inspiring or welcome . |
| 12 | ‘ I had n't realised your ambitions were quite so basic or mercenary , ’ said Niall drily . |
| 13 | The last class of small town to be considered in this chapter covers those which developed primarily around either extractive or manufacturing industries . |
| 14 | Although the study was primarily concerned with the continuity of anti-social behaviour , there were also twenty-nine men found to have alcoholism , twenty-three men diagnosed as schizophrenic , twenty women described as ‘ hysterics ’ and thirty-two male and thirty female ‘ other neurotics ’ who were predominantly either undiagnosed or anxiety states . |
| 15 | Many research projects concentrate on either siliciclastic or carbonate sediments ; few investigate combined carbonate-siliciclastic systems and fewer yet reference volcanogenic sediments , mudrocks or evaporites . |
| 16 | Nothing — nothing either under Se- or Str- . |
| 17 | Everyone else was either too young or female , and all the teachers had beards . |