Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] or [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 2 | In Britain , mother tongue learners of English are discouraged from using repetition on the grounds that it is ‘ bad style ’ , and encouraged to use a device known as ‘ elegant repetition ’ , where synonymous or more general words or phrases are used . |
| 3 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | Those that were there seemed intended as no more than second or even third-string playthings for those untouched by the recession . |
| 5 | Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age . |
| 6 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 7 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |
| 8 | If two or more higher-level indexes exist , each of them may be handled using a different one of the techniques described below aimed at reducing index search time , depending on their size . |
| 9 | Whether two or more mental events count as of the same type in our sense , to repeat , is a matter of whether there is a discriminable difference in content , any such difference , whether or not the events are included under the same more or less general description . |
| 10 | But whether deliberate or merely careless , the outcome is the same . |
| 11 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 12 | If mixing is seen as possible or even beneficial , then what is the best mix in each type of organisation ? |
| 13 | Such discrepancies can not be viewed as accidental or simply self-chosen . |
| 14 | Poised , suggestive , but nowhere near as funny or as savage as it should have been . |
| 15 | They argued that although sabotage is usually regarded as irrational or even pathological behaviour , careful investigation shows that ‘ in many cases the meanings which inform sabotage are explicitly intentional ’ . |
| 16 | I confess I have never met any woman as shrewish or as critical as you ! ’ |
| 17 | Other secondary minerals formed during weathering include those composed of oxides and hydroxides of iron and aluminium and , less significantly , of titanium oxide , as well as amorphous or finely crystalline silica . |
| 18 | The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal . |
| 19 | But if Greek literacy is not , in fact , as easy or as unambiguous as Goody sometimes claims , then its ‘ implications ’ may not be so important as those claims assert . |
| 20 | One of these philosophers presses on forward , with agreeable audacity , to characterize the view I have expounded as Idealist or even Scholastic . |
| 21 | The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these . |
| 22 | Most of us would prefer when ill or very elderly to be looked after by those we know and love rather than taken to a strange and unfamiliar place . |
| 23 | I have yet to find a French 5c as hard or as scary as Kipling Groove ! |
| 24 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 25 | Few find him more than adequate and even fewer describe him as good or even satisfactory . |
| 26 | She looked at 100 village plans and assessed them as regular or partly regular . |
| 27 | When drawing up your own table , you should include each of your child 's symptoms , making the list as long or as short as it needs to be . |
| 28 | Of respondents in the Gallup Poll in 1980 , 70% regarded Americans as very or fairly trustworthy . |
| 29 | In the 1980 Gallup Poll , only 32% of the Britons questioned regarded the French as very or fairly trustworthy . |
| 30 | ‘ Jack Scamp is a south-of-the-river villain who was never as tough or as important as he thought he was . |