Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weber did qualify his emphasis on the coercive methods through which the state maintains order and compliance , ‘ force is certainly not the normal or only means of the state ’ ( Weber 1972 p.78 ) . |
| 2 | This is the Normal or Gaussian curve and represents the distribution of events due to chance . |
| 3 | This is the Normal or Gaussian curve and represents the distribution of events due to chance . |
| 4 | Permanent consumption can be thought of as the normal or planned level of spending out of permanent income and can differ from measured consumption ( C ) by any unplanned , temporary increases or decreases in consumer spending , called transitory consumption ( CT ) . |
| 5 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 6 | 95% Confidence intervals for single proportions and the differences between two proportions were calculated with the normal or exact methods where appropriate . |
| 7 | A computer word holds a fixed number of bits , in a range from about 12 to 64 , and we number these bit positions consecutively , starting at zero at the right-hand or least-significant end . |
| 8 | If two similar viruses infect the same cell , their genes will recombine , and this may confer either the short-term or long-term advantages outlined above . |
| 9 | And the available reservoirs of good sense and good humour vary too with the class to be taught , and the short-term or long-term history the teacher has had with it . |
| 10 | The displaced or externalised mother or father figure ( including , of course , the state ) can be seen as a repository of tradition and culture , again regulating people 's innate drives towards survival and genetic representation in later generations . |
| 11 | For most people , change of type or tenure of housing has been relatively infrequent once they have obtained a home of their own in either the owner-occupied or local authority sectors . |
| 12 | Over 90 per cent will subsequently obtain a home of their own in either the owner-occupied or local authority sectors ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | It is therefore usually the case that even more archaeological sites are destroyed on river gravels than on the hilly or mountainous ground where stone is generally quarried . |
| 14 | As Kay and King ( 1986 ) stress , ‘ what matters from the point of view of social and economic policy is not the progressive or regressive impact of every individual element of the tax system but the impact of that system as a whole ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 15 | We acknowledge that stroke patients may be classified in the progressive or non-progressive disorder category . |
| 16 | Alternatively the precise positioning of the IE-3 site with respect to the mRNA start site may not be correct for downregulation of this promoter by the 140k protein , as a close correlation has been observed between Vmw175 mediated autorepression and the stereo-specific or distance-dependent placement of the IE-3 binding site and the TATA box ( discussion of reference 40 ) . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , even the poorest or smallest countries can , theoretically at least , frustrate the expansion plans of any one of these TNC giants by the simple , if often costly , expedients of refusing permission to trade or manufacture within that country 's territory or by nationalizing ( expropriating ) the property of a TNC already in business there . |
| 18 | The recovery technique from either the low or high pitch case is in the same order : 1 — Power . |
| 19 | Hennion 's account of popular song form accepts , in both words and music , a similar dialectic of the known — clichéd frameworks and transparent effects — and the striking or illuminating detail ( Hennion 1983 : 171–82 ) . |
| 20 | In the universities , these are mainly the combined or joint honours courses mentioned in the opening chapter , which often come in cognate pairs such as physics and chemistry , economics and sociology , or French and German . |
| 21 | Mail order computer retailer and manufacturer Chipboards Plc has called in the receivers , Robson Rhodes , which are now trying to sell the combined or separate businesses and assets of the group as a going concern : the company comprises a Chipboards division , which sells clone personal computers , upgrades and peripherals by mail order and has a turnover of £8m ; and a Chipset division , which manufactures high-end clone personal computers such as file servers , Unix machines and workstations for computer-aided design and generates £3m in revenues ; Chipboards was set up in 1987 , is based in Bisley , near Woking , Surrey , and claims to have a customer base of 20,000 . |
| 22 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 23 | It is unfortunate that Frey gets caught up in talk of ‘ sensory data ’ for it tends to deflect attention towards the workings of ‘ inner ’ sense and away from the whole context of the appetitive or like behaviour of the animal or human being . |
| 24 | In Western societies like Britain awareness of the possible or actual dangers of RE is more to the fore than appreciation of its potential assets . |
| 25 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 26 | Indeed , breaches of international law are just as important , as evidence of the need to make the political or moral case , and as evidence of the ‘ illegality ’ of the opposing case . |
| 27 | What they are uncertain about , with good reason , is the political or other implications of ‘ Germanness ’ . |
| 28 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 29 | For instrumental Marxists , however , a change in the power structure of society arose , not because of conscious efforts by committed individuals at the political or social levels of society , but because this feudal mode of production was fundamentally challenged by an alternative and technically more efficient mode of production . |
| 30 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |