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

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1 And so strong is the legal culture that radical change , to make the bar and judiciary more accessible or representative , looks unlikely .
2 The first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple .
3 Flight markedly undulating or dipping ; gait a hop .
4 This is the best ‘ bargain offer ’ pensioners have ever had , and any woman over 60 or man over 65 should take advantage of it if possible .
5 An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay .
6 If the Treasury economic simulation model predicts 15% inflation in 18 months ' time then people 's behaviour may well be influenced by the expectation that the model is correct in its predictions , no matter how good or objective the data on which the simulation was based .
7 Hence every society no matter how simple or complex must differentiate persons in terms of both prestige and esteem and must therefore possess a certain amount of institutionalised inequality ( Davis and Moore 1945 p. 243 ) .
8 Withdrawing from some drugs , such as barbiturates , are best dealt with in a situation where medical or specialist help is available .
9 The polarisation of the photon provides the single dynamical variable that Bell postulates and , as required , it can take only one of the two values : a photon or ‘ parcel ’ of light , may be polarised in a plane either parallel or perpendicular to a defined direction in space .
10 It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman .
11 This is the time when self-poisoning or self-injury are most likely .
12 clarify your own bargaining power compared to the other side 's ; power and objectives must be in balance otherwise one or other is going to have to alter
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