Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , the deprave-and-corrupt test carries the sense of something ‘ strikingly or importantly bad or evil ’ , to quote the words of an educationalist in The Times ( 1977 ) , who continued : |
| 2 | Add a little vanilla essence for vanilla buttercream ( about 1·25ml/¼tsp per 75g/3oz icing sugar ) , or perhaps orange or lemon juice for a citrus cream ( add 5ml/1tsp per 75g/3oz ) . |
| 3 | There are many instances to be found in decided cases where the right of a nation to legislate for waters more or less landlocked or land embraced , although beyond the three-mile limit , has been admitted . |
| 4 | In a difficult production situation , with high perceived discount rates and competition between small producers for many scarce resources , it is obviously an unanswered question as to who will pay for conservation works , or how cost-sharing or insurance will be arranged on a sufficiently large scale . |
| 5 | What is not explained satisfactorily in Woodward 's paper is why the 60 per cent of similar signs were regarded as cognate , rather than coincidentally similar or loan signs . |
| 6 | The transsexual individual , although unquestionably male or female in physical and genital appearance and gender , has an intense feeling of being a man trapped in woman 's form , or vice versa and , usually , an obsessive need for sexual realignment . |
| 7 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Unruh found that the commercial database vendors provided more reference material than either non-profit or government producers , with the exception of controlled vocabularies . |
| 9 | Cheiranthus allionii ( Siberian wallflower ) Like ordinary wallflowers , but smaller and only yellow or orange . |
| 10 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 11 | ‘ The hunt is about fun , and not conservation or pest control , ’ it says . |
| 12 | He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners . |
| 13 | The ventral arm spines are more rugose than the dorsal ones and slightly curved or sabre shaped . |
| 14 | Ideal choices for hallways , which are often subject to the most wear , are materials with a water-repellent and easy-clean surface — for example , sheet vinyl , vinyl tiles , a woodstrip or woodblock floor , sanded and sealed floorboards , and even ceramic or quarry tiles . |
| 15 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 16 | Orange and either ginger or cinnamon are perhaps the nicest flavours to combine with rhubarb , and they work especially well as a compote . |
| 17 | The pH of gastric juice predicted the concentrations of magnesium and calcium but not copper or zinc , in the juice . |
| 18 | Laboratory rodents that spontaneously develop autoimmune type I diabetes did so at a much lower frequency when fed a synthetic chow free of cows ' milk protein , and recently a peptide antigen called p 69 was identified on rat insulinoma cells which cross reacts immunologically with a similar sequence present in bovine , but not human or rat , albumin . |
| 19 | No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding . |
| 20 | Many respondents said that the information fails to highlight critical issues and a majority rated such information as only poor or average . |
| 21 | Thus , since the executive 's way of making money for the corporation is not viewed as either immoral or criminal , his neighbours are hardly likely to discriminate against him ; after all , there but for the grace of the enforcement agencies |
| 22 | Ninety-four per cent of the men describe themselves as exclusively heterosexual ; only 3% describe themselves as either bisexual or homosexual . |
| 23 | The contiguous circles to be read as either columnar or flat . |
| 24 | Nathalie Sarraute 's Enfance ( 1983 ) also foregrounds hesitations concerning the legitimacy of the autobiographical temptation : generically , this work is not categorized as either novel or autobiography . |
| 25 | ‘ Welsh ’ is used to describe the ethnic origin of babies of parents who described themselves as either Welsh or English , but their infants as Welsh . |