Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
2 | Much of rural Britain has a non-existent or very rudimentary bus service , and about one-quarter of all the rural parishes of lowland England have fewer than one bus daily . |
3 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has awarded its " Green Con of the Year Award " for 1992 to Meyer International , owner of the Jewsons chain of builders ' merchants , for attempting to persuade the public that the timber trade has a marginal or even beneficial role in the battle to save the world 's forests . |
4 | Hence if knowledge requires an infallible or perfectly reliable method , it is impossible . |
5 | One advantage of that approach would be to direct attention to the particular source of danger , thus labelling the offence in a way which both describes the circumstances of the offence and serves an educative or even deterrent purpose . |