Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each new kind of medium is likely to have its own built in obsolescence whether deficiencies these are inherent or merely the result of replacement by newer and more efficient technologies . |
| 2 | If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn . |
| 3 | At this point you have got to say something interesting or else the conversation will pass on and leave you isolated once more . |
| 4 | Thus , however flat or sharp the key of the piece may be , the arranger is able to see to it that his clarinets never play in a key with a greater number of flats or sharps than three . |
| 5 | However long or short the work , care is needed not to overload the tale with variations and divertissements . |
| 6 | The ordinary must be made dramatic or else the language has no tension . |
| 7 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 8 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 9 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 10 | And this was er more or less the trade union business . |
| 11 | I would n't of thought so , I would of thought it was more or less the van than anything else |
| 12 | That was er more or less the compartment that I worked in . |
| 13 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 14 | The Release control performs more or less the reverse of the Attack rotary , adjusting the time for the signal gain to fall back to the level set by the Range control . |
| 15 | An American Congregationalist , for example , saw no possibility of uniting with Rome and every reason for not uniting with Rome — let us join the Churches which teach more or less the truth , not the Churches which do not . |
| 16 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 17 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 18 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 19 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 20 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 21 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 22 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 23 | Could it be the years of experience it takes to know where the grape is just ripe or perhaps the skill needed to reach that perfectly balanced wine . |
| 24 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 25 | The 1922 committee is almost certain to raise to 20 or more the number of MPs needed to sponsor a challenger in future . |