Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've no problems to report to you this evening , either from British Rail or indeed from our local bus services . |
| 2 | In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town . |
| 3 | Another hour or so of heavy housework must precede breakfast , followed by a further assault on sweeping and dusting , and later , for a little light relief , pastry-making and shopping . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that the wishes of a 16- or 17-year-old child or indeed of a younger child who is ‘ Gillick competent ’ are of the greatest importance both legally and clinically , but I do doubt whether Thorpe J. was right to conclude that W. was of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 5 | The moreover , includes mention of a certain number of scholars of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries who were known chiefly as muftis : for example , Molla Bahaeddin omer and the three following scholars , all listed under the ulema of the time of Bayezid I , about none of whom , however , is much more information given than that " he was consulted in matters [ involving ] fetvas in his time " ( Taskopruzade ) or " he became mufti " and , indeed , in the case of these scholars it is simply not deducible in what way they were recognized as muftis , whether simply by popular acclaim or rather by some sort of official recognition . |
| 6 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 7 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 8 | First , I want to comment on some features of the hereditary mechanism which may prove to be characteristic of all living things , whether on this planet or elsewhere in the universe . |
| 9 | This fitted flush into the centre of the putter 's head a half inch or so behind the face . |
| 10 | To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw . |
| 11 | It continues , and will for another day or so at least . |
| 12 | At a temperature of 73–74°F John 's fish 's eggs hatch in about 2½–3 days , but the fry are another day or so before becoming free-swimming . |
| 13 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 14 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 15 | Amid the stark , and in places green-hued contours of the half mile or so of cliff and tumbled boulders that is Froggatt , there exists a wealth of entertaining and varied climbing . |
| 16 | ‘ Early this morning or perhaps during the night the room was vandalized ; everything in it was either damaged or destroyed . ’ |
| 17 | According to these data , for instance , from the aspect of the viability of the fetus , it is better to have a second child at ages 30–34 than a first child at this age or even at age 24–29 years . |
| 18 | Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten , except in folklore and collective memory ; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way that society conceives itself ( S. Cohen , 1972 ) . |
| 19 | Sometimes the panic is passed over and forgotten , but at other times it has more serious and long term repercussions and it might produce changes in legal and social policy or even in the way in which societies conceive themselves . |
| 20 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 21 | Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again . |
| 22 | Like dissolves , slow motion can be useful for scenes of sexual love or simply for lovers ' meetings — a usage now long derided , though , and so no longer even parodied , after its long descent through so many TV commercials . |
| 23 | Client will not be liablewhether under this indemnity or otherwise for any claims arising directly or indirectly from the gross negligence or wilful default of any Indemnified Person . |
| 24 | Conversely , reputable composers became more interested in popular music , the tunes of which they preserved in keyboard or lute arrangements and as themes for instrumental variation or even for Masses . |
| 25 | Leave another yard or so of rope above the bottle . |
| 26 | Whether a public transport flight takes place entirely within UK airspace , entirely within foreign airspace or partly in each is immaterial to the achievement of a public transport safety level . |
| 27 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 28 | current storage location of the module version ; that is online LIFESPAN storage , LIFESPAN offline system or only in LIFESPAN hard copy system . |
| 29 | The computer modellers forecast a cold period ahead , with a dip in northern-hemisphere temperatures reaching 0.5°C late this year or early in 1984 . |
| 30 | Mr Braithwaite said work on the first stage of the new road was on schedule to start at the end of this year or early in 1993 . |