Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
2 | When we went ashore , the transport was not always an air-conditioned coach but sometimes a rickety taxi , a horse cab or even a farm trailer hauled by a tractor . |
3 | Was this an overall effect on blood pressure or specifically the beat to beat variability ? |
4 | Whether Golitsin was a KGB plant or simply a fraud is irrelevant . |
5 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
6 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
7 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
8 | Basically , all you need to grow flowers for pressing is a window sill or even a grow-bag ! |
9 | The language that the layman has to learn is not the original machine code or even the more modern FORTRAN or PASCAL , which is used by scientists , but is generally BASIC , which , as its name denotes , is a very straightforward set of instructions in simple English . |
10 | One possibility is to seek a parent company or preferably a bank guarantee , though this will involve the purchaser in some expense and may require a deposit to be made with the bank . |
11 | On the positive side for such a picture , observations of ( astrophysically ) recent supernovae such as Cassiopaeia A or even the Crab show that supernova explosions are extremely fragmented . |
12 | To celebrate the arrival of two notables in town , I approached the mayor , well known for his Butchers Arms , and asked him to send a joint off the Old Dun Cow or even a Bulls Head . |
13 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
14 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
15 | Compared with the Rover 220 Turbo Coupe or even the BMW 325 coupe , the VW just does not make any sense at all — at least on paper . |
16 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
17 | These contributions , which do not depend on the point group or even the particular orientation of the symmetry element , are listed in Table 5.1 . |
18 | If we go to see a band , we do n't just send an A&R person , one of our product managers or maybe the sales director might come as well . |
19 | There 's not a lecture theatre or even a student bar in sight … but this is the way De Montfort University in Milton Keynes and Leicester hopes to trawl the best of undergraduates |
20 | Er and there were four crown post trusses or well no five crown port trusses , you see half of on there , half of one there and a whole one there . |
21 | A heavy contact to the opponent 's face may not merit just a verbal warning ; after consultation with the other members of the panel , the referee can go directly to a full point penalty or even a disqualification . |
22 | Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory . |
23 | A hawfinch has such a powerful bill that with straightforward muscle power it can crack a cherry stone or even an olive pit . |
24 | ‘ Once in the VAT field it must however be appreciated that a business could go over the 7,200 threshold , as a result of increased business activity or even an increase in the rate of VAT . |
25 | Activities including fishing , walking , company conferences , product launches or just a memorable break away from it all : they are all catered for at Aldwark Manor . |
26 | Indubitably , Buzzcocks will hardly figure strongly — or even weakly — in the NME poll , and in these dark days when Patti Smith , Loudon Wainwright or even the New York Dolls fail to make any impact on Radio One DJs , common sense is therefore not so common . |
27 | This is called the average or mean bond enthalpy , the bond enthalpy term or simply the bond energy . |
28 | DAY 4 : Time for last minute shopping or perhaps a visit to the Rijksmuseum to see the Night Watch by Rembrandt or the Van Gogh Museum to see a vast array of the master 's work . |
29 | A surprising number of gliders have been wrecked by pilots pulling the undercarriage lever or even the release knob instead of the airbrakes on the approach , usually on their first flight on type . |
30 | ( 3 ) Study section 2.6 and put the ideas into practice in all your writing whether it be a seminar paper , a lab. report or simply a letter home . |