Example sentences of "in [adj] or [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 2 | Shamir said that he regretted the US decision , but that Israel could not , under any circumstances , " go along with the principle that Jews have no right to live in this or that part of Greater Israel " . |
| 3 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 4 | Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment . |
| 5 | We ask the question : what does it mean to be a Christian in this or that kind of society ? |
| 6 | One could go on with provisos of this kind , or with hints as to procedure in this or that case , for pages . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 8 | I repeat : what I have said here might well be qualified by one or another scholar in this or that regard . |
| 9 | ( a ) a bankruptcy order or its equivalent is made against the RFL whether in this or another jurisdiction ; or |
| 10 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 11 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 12 | It can soldier on , living from day to day in the hope that it can attract support from MPs in one or another minority party — there are likely to be at least 50 such members — for each piece of legislation . |
| 13 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 14 | Daily , repeated exposure might not become apparent until years later , in one or another form of damage to the nervous system . |
| 15 | The project will prepare the conceptual and methodological basis for a longer-term enquiry into such issues and test it in one or more pilot studies . |
| 16 | We telephoned all patients who stated that actual or possible inflammatory bowel disease was present in one or more family members and obtained the names and dates of birth of the affected family members . |
| 17 | The price of the ticket includes participation in one or more technology workgroups , input into X/Open specifications , the roadmap and Xtra Process . |
| 18 | Of the remaining 120 fabliaux recognized in the Nouveau Recueil Complet des Fabliaux , more than half exist in a single copy , and fewer than twenty of the more innocently titled fabliaux exist in four or more manuscript copies . |
| 19 | Intestinal metaplasia in four or more biopsy specimens was the main criterion for inclusion in the study . |
| 20 | The mutual recognition provisions apply where applications are made simultaneously or within a short interval of one another for admission of the same securities to official listing on stock exchanges in two or more member states . |
| 21 | but left open the question whether there is any difference under section 87 if the successor has resided for 12 months with the deceased tenant in two or more council houses or has resided partly in a council house and partly in private sector accommodation : [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1433 , 1441H . |
| 22 | For every book-collector , and every bookseller , is in greater or less degree a bibliographer . |
| 23 | In greater or less degree according to their temperaments , their training , their intelligence , they are swayed by prejudice , rely on intuition instead of reasoning , leap to conclusions on inadequate evidence and fail to recognise the cogency of material which might cast doubt on the validity of the conclusions they reach . |