Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one .
2 Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client .
3 From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch …
4 Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control .
5 General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore !
6 Therefore the dojo is treated with great reverence and respect , whether it is a room within a sports complex or simply a disused garage .
7 The point is however that Olympia was not a classic nude or even a high-class courtisane , but as Clark notes , a ‘ fille publique ’ , ‘ a faubourienne ’ .
8 Very or only a little ? ’
9 For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry .
10 Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation .
11 Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull .
12 Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed .
13 For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families .
14 This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale .
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