Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transistor TR2 needs to have an H f e of at least 500 or greater and a BC109C was chosen here . |
| 2 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 3 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 4 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 5 | The attributes of any volume which is empty or full after a hard copy run may be changed , with the exception of the volume name and charge code ; the minimum fill mark of partially filled volumes may be revised between hard copy runs . |
| 6 | Long-distance travel is a fever dream where time and mood slip out of control leaving one unexpectedly early or late delighted or depressed until a mosaic of tiny things builds a flat earth beneath you again . |
| 7 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 8 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 9 | In determining whether goods are of a class to which an advertised trade description relates , s5(3) provides that regard shall be had not only to the form and content of the advertisement but also to the time , place , manner and frequency of its publication and all other matters making it likely or unlikely that a person to whom the goods are supplied would think of the goods belonging to the class in question . |
| 10 | Now it 's especially for people who are black or Asian because a lot of the time they miss out on the opportunities that are available to a lot of other people because of things like language barriers and although you might think it 's unfair it 's not actually illegal . |
| 11 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 12 | Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240Mb hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1,152 by 900 resolution and a 14″ colour monitor . |
| 13 | Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240MB hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1152 x 900 resolution and a 14-inch colour monitor . |
| 14 | According to the Sunday Times , ‘ A Government Minister has implied that their [ the people of the area ] problems are imaginary or psychosomatic and a senior Whitehall official has suggested that the whole thing was a ‘ hoax ’ , devised to thwart the Government 's privatisation plans . ’ |
| 15 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 16 | The minimum hardware requirements for InstaPlan are 640k of random-access memory ( RAM ) , MS-DOS 2.0 or higher and a floppy disk . |
| 17 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 18 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 19 | However , whereas GEC/Siemens had originally proposed that their joint bid would result in a series of joint ventures between them , it became increasingly clear subsequently that the bid was , according to Sir John Clark , Plessey 's Chairman , ‘ no more or less than a simple old-fashioned attempt to carve up one of the leading British electronics companies ’ between GEC and Siemens ' . |
| 20 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 21 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 22 | That is no more or less than a sovereign Parliament within a constitutional monarchy should be able to expect . |
| 23 | That is nothing more or less than a direct payroll tax on jobs . |
| 24 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 25 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 26 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 27 | unc In finding the set of numbers greater or less than a given value , the number line is useful as a check that no elements have been missed out . |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 29 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |
| 30 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |