Example sentences of "and [adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , in their order of dependence : moral philosophy or ethics ( which deals with ‘ the dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and political or civil philosophy ( which deals with ‘ the civil duties of subjects ’ ) . |
| 2 | There is no necessary connection between community activism and progressive or radical politics : indeed , quite the reverse may well be the case , as is to be expected in a predominantly conservative society ( cf. working-class racism ) . |
| 3 | Such practices involve specific structures of speech , non-verbal communications , and emotional or social functioning , on the part of both practitioners , and clients or patients . |
| 4 | The rapidly rising number of girls receiving middle and higher education , coinciding with the growth of urban bureaucratic and commercial activities , has led to a corresponding increase in the number entering clerical and professional or semi-professional employment , generally prior to marriage and temporary or permanent withdrawal from the labour force . |
| 5 | If deferred diagnoses and the artefactual disagreements involving delirium are excluded , there was complete agreement in 89% of the cases and complete or partial agreement in 92% . |
| 6 | A squat Nuremberg bowl for the centrepiece and eight or ten specimen glasses of the same ware to be filled with orange carnations and silver grasses , each guest 's place was to have a boutonnière to match and each finger bowl a floating full-blown orange carnation plus a few drops of orange flower water . |
| 7 | The scale of his windows and free-standing or hanging glass assemblages has not overwhelmed his lyrical impulse and painter 's training and approach . |
| 8 | Of course , over the whole economy these relative demand changes sum to zero , and aggregate or average demand is given by the aggregate demand curve derived in section 4.1 . |
| 9 | Other groups with possible relative deficiency would be those with malabsorption and acute or chronic infection . |
| 10 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 11 | Impairment of warmth and rigid or anxious mothering styles also occur during the acute illness , and improvement may be delayed for up to one year , depending on the premorbid social adjustment . |
| 12 | Supplementing flake and pellet foods with freeze-dried , frozen and fresh or live food will add to your fish 's well-being , and generally reward you with a stronger , livelier , more colourful and more readily-bred fish . |
| 13 | dried seeds and fresh or dried leaf , used for flatulence , in gripe waters , has some diuretic effect |
| 14 | Both literature and social or cultural reality are de fined by structuralist theory in semiotic terms , so that ( as in the Bakhtinian theory ) they are seen as belonging to the same order . |
| 15 | Using a brush , paint the facial features with black and brown or red colouring . |
| 16 | or LL.M. degrees , and two- or three-year research degrees leading to the M.Phil . |
| 17 | Three pound nineteen and six or four pound one shilling that was about the top wages in in the land at that time for tradesmen . |
| 18 | On the engineering side there are also two principal Inspectors and six or seven engineering Inspectors and Senior Inspectors are in each section . |
| 19 | Wind conditions in our Greek centres , and early or late season in Turkey , are easiest , though determined people can learn at any of our centres . |
| 20 | Editors increasingly saw only the downside of tedious and expensive court actions and official or semi-official government pressure . |
| 21 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 22 | In order to pay for their drugs , many users get involved in crime including house breaking and male or female prostitution . |
| 23 | Sensitive to both heat and cold or open air , thus they have great difficulty in getting comfortable . |
| 24 | It is hardly surprising that the members of UNTCOK felt exasperated and frustrated or that acrimony occurred between certain members and the American military government . |
| 25 | As majors handle much more product than independents , they have more staff , maybe two or three label managers , two marketing people , and three or four radio promotions staff . |
| 26 | Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice . |
| 27 | The effect of the risk factors on the time to healing was cumulative : patients with one , two , and three or more risk factors needed progressively longer courses of treatment to achieve ulcer healing ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 28 | Thus there was a clear mismatch between what was meant by the questionnaire , and conscious or unconscious tutor perceptions . |
| 29 | For example , to trap a blackmailer , the victim may be used as an agent of the police to arrange an appointment and false or marked money may be laid as bait to catch the offender . |
| 30 | Alternatively , reverse colours , using dark green in feeder 1 and white or pastel colour in feeder 2 , as illustrated . |