Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 2 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 3 | If there are too many Orcs and Goblins jostling around him , all excitedly generating raw unconscious power , then the shaman can suffer dizzying sickness , horrendous injuries or even death . |
| 4 | With the spectre of the supermarket pinta a very real threat to the British milkman , Steve Ellis points to his unofficial role as social worker or even home help . |
| 5 | The paint is a bit more fluid than standard tube watercolour but , as I have pointed out , colour can be poured into palettes , empty pans or even ice cube trays and reconstituted . |
| 6 | Nor are electric windows , central locking or even door handles ( you pull a body-coloured strap to release the catch ) . |
| 7 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 8 | Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits . |
| 9 | It may be caused by an accidental or inadvertent release from an industrial plant , and the effects may range from annoyance ( e.g. odour ) through minor illness or discomfort ( nose , eye and breathing irritation , coughing , nausea ) to , in some cases , serious illness or even death as happened at Seveso , Bhopal and Chernobyl ( table 7.3 ) . |
| 10 | Misunderstanding and confusion are rife sometimes causing unnecessary damage or expense , personal injury or even death . |
| 11 | They do not touch hard liquor or even coffee . |
| 12 | Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food . |
| 13 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 14 | Those whose actions are most likely directly to involve human suffering or even death may hesitate to use their whole industrial and political muscle for fear of the adverse reaction of public opinion and decision-makers should their action be the cause of some tragedy , such as death . |
| 15 | As soon as we turn our attention to the source of police errors we find that they do not , in the main , spring from malpractice , ill will or even slackness , as is sometimes supposed . |
| 16 | The ‘ retirement impact hypothesis ’ ( McMahon and Ford 1955 ) — the suggestion that retirement leads to ill health or even death having been out of favour during the inter-war depression ( Emerson 1959 ) was resurrected during the post-war period . |
| 17 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 18 | A visit may lead to a display , or an audio-visual presentation or perhaps drama , role-play or empathetic work . |
| 19 | This can cause a cart-wheel and major damage or even injury . |
| 20 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 21 | Are you wanting commitment or merely agreement to seek further information ? |
| 22 | His case , as described by Charles Dickens , was probably typical in arising not from sinister intent or even negligence , but from pure confusion . |
| 23 | Mass civil disorder , whether it be the result of a real or imagined grievance or merely over-indulgence in alcohol , is not purely a recent phenomenon . |
| 24 | Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time ? |
| 25 | If caught , offenders risk heavy fines or even imprisonment . |
| 26 | Even then , the limits of such danger are bounded by the age of the child or children involved and the child 's socio-sexual maturity , while mitigation may lie in the knowledgeable cooperation or even encouragement of the youngster concerned . |
| 27 | A curriculum is such a complex device , and requires the combined contributions , sustained over time , of so many different groups and individuals , that radical curriculum change has often been associated with political upheaval or even war . |
| 28 | The leaders of the labour movement concluded from this that the British government had a responsibility to defend democracy against fascism and were increasingly bitter about the apparent indifference or even acceptance which characterized the response of many Conservatives to dictatorship in central Europe . |
| 29 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 30 | Much will depend on where they were trained and whether they are skilled in other therapies and techniques such as reflexology ( pressure point massage of the feet ) , Touch For Health ( muscle testing , a diagnostic technique ) , medical herbalism , spiritual healing or perhaps nutrition . |