Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred . |
| 2 | Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure . |
| 3 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 4 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 5 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 6 | They will also depend upon the generic strategies being adopted for the SBU or even the product line . |
| 7 | After an hour or more the dancing stops . |
| 8 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 9 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 10 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 11 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 12 | It can be applied to any arena in which people need to work together — an office , factory , club or even the Government . |
| 13 | This is called the average or mean bond enthalpy , the bond enthalpy term or simply the bond energy . |
| 14 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 15 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 16 | either the living room or the study or maybe the kitchen . |
| 17 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 18 | Often only broken fragments of these inlays survive , and nothing of the item of furniture to which they were attached , so it is difficult to visualize the original effect or even the extent of the shell decoration . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not talking about your dismissal or even the fact that it parted you from Jones , and I think you know it . ’ |
| 20 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 21 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 22 | The amount of the contingency sum should reflect the degree of uncertainty in the definition of the project and the firmness or otherwise the budget . |
| 23 | This is also known as the molal freezing-point depression constant or simply the freezing-point constant . |
| 24 | When the amount is one mole ( see chapter 4 ) the constant is designated R. It is known as the molar gas constant or simply the gas constant . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 26 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 27 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’ |
| 29 | Even a woman wanting to take on help with child-care may have to consider whether or not she will make the decision herself or whether her husband or even the child itself will become involved . |
| 30 | The success of the tennis in Seoul was the perfect answer to all those who had doubted either the need or even the efficacy of tennis once more becoming an Olympic sport . |