Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean what , what psychological characteristics would make one person more groupie than another or more needing or wanting or enjoying belonging to a group than another ? |
| 2 | They can also convey an intimacy in providing gentle , ‘ finger-picking ’ backing for soft or solo singing and playing , inducing a mood of vulnerability or timelessness . |
| 3 | In recent years members of Darlington Lecture Association have heard some remarkable stories but it is probable that few have been so remarkable or so moving as that which John Hawkridge will tell on Monday . |
| 4 | These can be either electric or manually operated and are useful for checking additions and prelisting . |
| 5 | They are not as effective or fast acting and are damaging to some surfaces particularly aluminium . |
| 6 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 7 | An experienced German translator will normally replace all or most predicated and identifying themes with less marked German structures . |
| 8 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 9 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 10 | Religious education in these schools is officially non-denominational or biblically based and loyalist sentiments are promoted . |
| 11 | It notes that it is possible to argue that societies ' liquid assets are mostly fixed , mostly current or neither fixed nor current ! |
| 12 | A score of ten or less suggests that a revision of all Goal I material is needed . |
| 13 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 14 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 15 | Everyone in the developed countries around 1970 or so knew that there was both a baby bust and an education explosion going on ; half or more of the young people were now staying in school beyond high school . |
| 16 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 17 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 18 | The oral shield may be rounded and triangular or distally lobed and like a blunt flattened arrow head . |
| 19 | The bridge cost £10 million or more to build and successive Governments have supported the tolling of estuarial crossings of this nature . |
| 20 | Further , no single or partial exercise of any such power or right shall preclude any other or further exercise or the exercise of any other such power or right under this Agreement . |
| 21 | In the remaining three subjects ( patients 1 , 2 , and 3 ) silver staining revealed a neuropathic abnormality with absent or severely depleted and ill defined argyrophilic neurones in the myenteric plexus . |
| 22 | In brief , social class inequalities in access and use of the health services have remained either unaltered or slightly reduced but they have not increased over the years since the last war . |