Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How specific or broad a range of wastes constitute a waste type is debatable . |
| 2 | Even if the reason is economic , technical or organisational the employer must still act reasonably in selecting and dismissing each employee . |
| 3 | Each of us speaks with his own voice , and though the tone may be rich or poor the voice is unique . |
| 4 | The kind of dwelling to be had for 7s or 8s a week varies in several ways . |
| 5 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 6 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 7 | Forty or fifty a week the Dynmouth woman 's paid . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As few as 2 or 3 a year opt for this method of preserving the memory of a devoted pet . |
| 10 | Of all contemporary cricketers , there can surely be no more appropriate or eligible a subject . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | This is not too unscientific or random an approach , as it is often found that one can do an experiment in a defined situation and reinforce one 's findings by consulting one 's colleagues about their own experience . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Effective help is not always as easy or obvious a thing to give as we might like . |
| 15 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No matter how erm , simple or small a change you 're making , you 'll probably think oh , that 's bound to work , no need to test that , such a simple change . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Our provisional conclusion can be no more than that Rawls and others arguing for neutrality in similar ways fail to establish their case , and that sometimes they assume too quick or simple a connection between neutrality and personal autonomy . |
| 20 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 21 | Three or four a day . |
| 22 | The second consequence was to limit the number of executions by the early 1960s to no more than three or four a year , so bringing nearer the prospect of total abolition by the classic , if inglorious , means of English penal reform : diminution , disuse , abandonment . |
| 23 | Spectra-Physics of California is delivering 150 carbon dioxide lasers , each capable of delivering 1–2 kW , at a rate of three or four a month to a Japanese industrial equipment firm , Amada . |
| 24 | If the parents ' reactions are inconsistent or uncertain the child will start to make more and more demands until the predictable success occurs . |
| 25 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 29 | The more famous or familiar the name , the worse I am . |
| 30 | 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 . |