Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resistance to being coerced has a variety of more or less typical expressions , shaped by other values and ideals . |
| 2 | The distinction between a movement and a party , or other organized group , is shown also by the fact that large-scale movements tend to produce within themselves a variety of more or less directly political groups , as did the nineteenth-century labour movement ; and the subsequent course of political action has then to be understood partly in terms of the relation between the broader movement and the various organized groups . |
| 3 | I have already hinted , in my account of the reductive steps the group employed , that a variety of experimentally or theoretically inconvenient processes that also occurred during the behaviour , such as a contribution of the peripheral nervous system , and some of the polysynaptic inputs onto the motor neuron , were dissected away and no longer taken into consideration . |
| 4 | You see , it 's not a case of either or God 's purpose is both of them . |
| 5 | The college also has a course for physically or mentally handicapped students which is free to those registered disabled , Ribber Courses for double bed machines and another on panelled skirts and shadow pleats . |
| 6 | There are a few occasions where the expert does not have a contract with either or both of the parties , but as the relationship is a close one based on reliance , the expert 's liability is likely to be the same as if there had been a contract : see 14.11 . |
| 7 | Mm my feet are sweating now , but , she seems to have a bug in there or summat , cos it 's more like a burning than a sweat , it |
| 8 | Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups . |
| 9 | Between the double-six dice throw , and the perfect deal at bridge , is a range of more or less improbable events that do sometimes happen , including any one individual 's being struck by lightning , winning a big prize on the football pools , scoring a hole-in-one at golf , and so on . |
| 10 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 11 | A species is a population of interbreeding individuals ; more precisely , because we do not want to regard the blue tits on the Isle of Wight as belonging to a different species to those on the mainland , a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations . |
| 12 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 13 | Sometimes , as with Kant , a period of more or less authoritarian government under an enlightened prince was seen as a necessary preliminary to the introduction of a more liberal and representative form of rule . |
| 14 | A succession of published polls typically produces a stream of more or less contradictory results . |
| 15 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 16 | The survival of the evil will always be vigorously resisted , and the neutral label will always be available to provide a means of temporarily or permanently disposing of troublesome issues . |
| 17 | It seems to show it 's a shambles with more or less benign intent . |
| 18 | For example , Vernon ( 1971 ) defined a multinational to be a firm with wholly or partly owned production facilities in a minimum of six foreign countries . |
| 19 | ‘ That a dwarf in there or what ? ’ |
| 20 | From the point of view of the school or college there could be a number of more or less tangible advantages . |
| 21 | One reason for the length of the audience was , It think , that he found some comfort in being offered a number of more or less obvious platitudes , regarding the transitory nature of the present political muddle . |
| 22 | The use of a scheme in centrally or cooperatively produced catalogue records can also be important in establishing its future . |
| 23 | the increased cost of the proposals and the fact that many will be unnecessary in the majority of firms means that the extra requirements should only be imposed on firms with a history of late or qualified reports etc . |
| 24 | There are shops , arcades , street cafès and a must is a visit to either or both of the world-renowned motor museums of Mercedes Benz and Porsche . |
| 25 | Without entering upon a detailed examination of this idea , let me simply observe , in the present context , that it too takes for granted that democracy , in the instances considered , has reached a stage of more or less completed development , and can thus be contrasted , as a distinct type of political system , with other types such as totalitarianism , dictatorship or ‘ unstable ’ democracy . |
| 26 | Of course , the whole ( apart from not being a play but a series of more or less laboured skits ) is a huge lie . |
| 27 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 28 | The research has given rise to a series of more or less operational online catalogues , three fairly lengthy reports and a number of articles and published and unpublished talks . |
| 29 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 30 | Family reconstitution and literary archaeology have revealed a mountain of more or less valuable information . |