Example sentences of "[adj] [that] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that a reduction or increase in funding did not automatically lead to similar changes in each of the schools . |
| 2 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 3 | It is clear that a baby or a young person is able to grow anatomically and physiologically without hearing stories or reading books . |
| 4 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 5 | We were fearful that a halt or a delay would result in other unfortunate occurrences in the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | It does seem unfair that a wheatear or pipit , having survived all the dangers of migration , should arrive home to find a merlin has set up house in its territory ! |
| 7 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 8 | To expand on that ; many girls would retain the values of civilisation and would want democracy and order and all that , as Ralph did , and eventually I am sure that a girl or girls would break away , causing a rift in the group , I think that the causes of the rift would be more trivial and the arguments more verbal and less brutally physical than the boys , but girls are capable of a great deal of spite and bitter unforgiveness and if more than one leader-figure emerges , they may later argue . |
| 9 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 10 | If the discourse of psychoanalysis is read in the light of the uncertainty principle , it becomes evident that a reconstruction or aetiology of a patient 's illness is impossible , for , like the ‘ biogram ’ in Out , the analytic process itself would alter the unconscious memories and phantasies that constitute traces of the origin of an illness . |
| 11 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 12 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 13 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 14 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 15 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |