Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning , |
| 2 | And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning , |
| 3 | But many young people leave home to work , and live , in another town or even country , far away from their schoolday friends and possibly living in an isolated situation . |
| 4 | No. 45 Royal Marine Commando have been enquiring about you and would you pay them a visit either this evening or tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 5 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 6 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 7 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 8 | If there are too many Orcs and Goblins jostling around him , all excitedly generating raw unconscious power , then the shaman can suffer dizzying sickness , horrendous injuries or even death . |
| 9 | With the spectre of the supermarket pinta a very real threat to the British milkman , Steve Ellis points to his unofficial role as social worker or even home help . |
| 10 | No doubt " and emptiness " adds a further precision or perhaps elaboration to the of line A ; that is to say , to the idea of ignorable non-existence is added that of chaotic absence of form . |
| 11 | The paint is a bit more fluid than standard tube watercolour but , as I have pointed out , colour can be poured into palettes , empty pans or even ice cube trays and reconstituted . |
| 12 | Just 30 miles or so south west of Bristol , Sedgemoor stretches from the Mendip Hills in the north to the Quantock Hills in the south . |
| 13 | Nor are electric windows , central locking or even door handles ( you pull a body-coloured strap to release the catch ) . |
| 14 | For the past 10 years or so ME have made all their fleece garments from material mainly sourced form the Far East . |
| 15 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 16 | Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits . |
| 17 | It may be caused by an accidental or inadvertent release from an industrial plant , and the effects may range from annoyance ( e.g. odour ) through minor illness or discomfort ( nose , eye and breathing irritation , coughing , nausea ) to , in some cases , serious illness or even death as happened at Seveso , Bhopal and Chernobyl ( table 7.3 ) . |
| 18 | Inspectors want tougher sentences , including lifetime bans on keeping animals and heavier fines or even imprisonment . |
| 19 | Misunderstanding and confusion are rife sometimes causing unnecessary damage or expense , personal injury or even death . |
| 20 | They do not touch hard liquor or even coffee . |
| 21 | Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food . |
| 22 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 23 | Those whose actions are most likely directly to involve human suffering or even death may hesitate to use their whole industrial and political muscle for fear of the adverse reaction of public opinion and decision-makers should their action be the cause of some tragedy , such as death . |
| 24 | As soon as we turn our attention to the source of police errors we find that they do not , in the main , spring from malpractice , ill will or even slackness , as is sometimes supposed . |
| 25 | The ‘ retirement impact hypothesis ’ ( McMahon and Ford 1955 ) — the suggestion that retirement leads to ill health or even death having been out of favour during the inter-war depression ( Emerson 1959 ) was resurrected during the post-war period . |
| 26 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 27 | A visit may lead to a display , or an audio-visual presentation or perhaps drama , role-play or empathetic work . |
| 28 | This can cause a cart-wheel and major damage or even injury . |
| 29 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 30 | Are you wanting commitment or merely agreement to seek further information ? |