Example sentences of "of a [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 2 | So the demise of a flat or a particular floor of a building will include a roof space accessible only from that flat where there is no reservation to the landlord of any rights relating to the roof space ( Hatfield v Moss [ 1988 ] 40 EG 122 ) . |
| 3 | The broad-minded opinions and solid common sense of this robust story-teller are expressed sometimes in dialogue in which officers ( and , interestingly , sometimes officers and men ) exchange views on slave-trading , naval punishments , privateering , or discuss the attributes of a good or a bad captain . |
| 4 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 5 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 6 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 7 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 8 | Yet depending upon what A is , the phrase in question can be used to assert the numerical identity of a particular or the qualitative identity of a species . |
| 9 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 10 | Persons found guilty of a corrupt or an illegal practice on prosecution therefore , or by an election court ( contesting the validity of the ‘ election ’ of a candidate ) may be disqualified . |