Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They will also depend upon the generic strategies being adopted for the SBU or even the product line . |
| 7 | Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred . |
| 8 | Is there a bottomless pit as suggested in the drawing or just a further depression that can be filled with a little more investment ? |
| 9 | either the living room or the study or maybe the kitchen . |
| 10 | Subscribing investors may under certain circumstances refuse to complete the deal or alternatively the issuing house must repay the investor 's money within fifteen days . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Is there a phone number in the ad or just an address ? |
| 13 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 16 | We do n't know if it was the judge or just a passing joker who wrote the card ‘ the last person to look like this was shot ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | would be in or erm you know , maybe in the course of the evening or just the afternoon , we 'd have had two or three people called . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 21 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 22 | In this statement to the House of Commons Hurd stated that ‘ in the public interest ’ funding should be withdrawn from community organisations who might ‘ directly or indirectly improve the standing or further the aims of a paramilitary organisation ’ . |
| 23 | The graphics facilities allow the teacher to develop pictures with far more control than the blackboard or even the overhead projector normally provides . |
| 24 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Product at which the list will start . |
| 25 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Client at which the list will start . |
| 26 | The front of the shop was open to the street , but large blocks of stone set at intervals across the threshold carried rebates for timber uprights , presumably to support the gable or perhaps an upper storey . |
| 27 | By making the flow of information between people or machines more effective or by automating a production process ( for instance by making possible a computerised technique in a factory ) IT can increase the efficiency or simply the flexibility of many organisations . |
| 28 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |
| 29 | Their lines were curved and beautiful ; they were more instantly recognisable than the cypress or even the chair . |
| 30 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |