Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the reason is economic , technical or organisational the employer must still act reasonably in selecting and dismissing each employee . |
| 2 | Each of us speaks with his own voice , and though the tone may be rich or poor the voice is unique . |
| 3 | With Type I ‘ internal markets ’ , some or all the health care services for an authority 's residents will be purchased on the basis of contracts . |
| 4 | If you feel especially anxious or upset about what you are faced with doing to/with a client have you been able to use this as a guide to how fearful or angry the client may also be feeling ? |
| 5 | There is a summary of the walks and a useful fact file with information about the length of the walk , the height climbed , how easy or difficult the walk is and whether there are public conveniences or public transport . |
| 6 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 7 | It does not matter how convinced or dogmatic the judge appears to be : keep at him as long as you think you have some hope of success and he is willing to listen to you . |
| 8 | If the parents ' reactions are inconsistent or uncertain the child will start to make more and more demands until the predictable success occurs . |
| 9 | The first indication of how large or small the yield might be is when the first leaves and tendrils begin to appear , followed by embryo bunches of grapes . |
| 10 | It is the gauge of wire used for the springs and the amount and type of this upholstery that governs how firm or soft the bed is . |
| 11 | The more famous or familiar the name , the worse I am . |
| 12 | We have to be able to make measurements of welfare ; when we have done that , and discovered how good or poor the welfare is , ethical decisions have to be taken , and individuals will have their own ideas about what is acceptable . |
| 13 | If the corrections are long or numerous the Chairman should ask the Hon. |
| 14 | ‘ The attitude seems to be that as Minogue was ‘ invented ’ by the publicity machine anyway , she 's fair game , no matter how flimsy or outrageous the angle . |
| 15 | All one or all the other . |
| 16 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 17 | It does n't matter how big or small the circle , the ratio is always three ! ’ |
| 18 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 19 | With no-one wishing to appear insensitive or dull-witted the audience gives an enthusiastic response , thereby upsetting Nero . |
| 20 | He considers ( 1975 : xx ) ‘ predatory street crime to be a far more serious matter than consumer fraud , anti-trust violations etc … because predatory crime … makes difficult or impossible the maintenance of meaningful human communities ’ . |
| 21 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 22 | On the one hand the effect of human activity upon earth environment has been very apparent and increasing , and yet on the other hand until the 1950s or 1960s the significance of human activity did not attract much attention by physical geographers , who instead often chose to study environmental change before man , to seek processes largely unmodified by man , or at best to include man as an afterthought or an appendage . |
| 23 | Messages displayed as a result of user errors are self-explanatory or direct the user to a contact who will be able to advise a suitable course of action . |
| 24 | But it seems to be widely accepted as inevitable that indiscipline will not be eradicated , no matter how positive or imaginative the school tries to be ; hence the need to be able to apply sanctions and punishments , ‘ to register disapproval of unacceptable behaviour and as a last resort to protect the necessary authority of teachers and the stability of the school system ’ . |
| 25 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 26 | Before embarking upon a display or demonstration , however formal or informal the occasion , think out why you are doing it and what you hope to achieve . |