Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 2 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 3 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 4 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 5 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 6 | Achard 's two theological treatises , the De Trinitate and the De Discretione Animae Spiritus et Mentis , probably belong to the 1140s or the early 1150s . |
| 7 | When you say the County Council is committed to the northern or the outer relief road route , do you mean committed or do you mean that that is their preferred option . |
| 8 | And the language of Ulysses is noticeable in countless ways , taking now to the staccato bursts of signal flickering half thoughts , or the ebb and flow of daydream , now to extended disputation , now to pastiche , now to grotesque imaginings , now to the flattest or the sharpest of conversational exchanges . |
| 9 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 10 | His market was the world , and he was n't particularly concerned to toady either to the British or the Americans . |
| 11 | A feature of Pauling 's theory now largely forgotten is that the chain of amino acids in a protein can , at least in principle , be twisted either to the left or the right , giving both left and right-handed helical structures . |
| 12 | Obviously the curve can face either to the left or the right , and after a little experimentation you will find which sort of curve is easiest for you to create . |
| 13 | If I was going to lose the tournament , I was going to lose by going right over the flag , not to the left or the right . |
| 14 | If you look in the Hopton Heath direction , is the first bend to the left or the right ? |
| 15 | They will all tend to put a stress on the system and depending on our health or susceptibility we will be affected to a greater or a lesser degree . |
| 16 | Each of these organisations is , to a greater or a lesser extent , involved in transferring technology to an end user . |
| 17 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 18 | Since eventually the speaker must produce one or other of these approximately interchangeable sentences , the next procedure must be to operate upon the functional-level representation in such a way as to decide upon the details of the specific sentence that is to be produced — to commit oneself , for example , to a passive or an active sentence . |
| 19 | For instance , pupils might be asked to decide whether an object belonged to a wealthy or a poor person , whether it was an everyday object or kept for special occasions . |
| 20 | Some of these struggles have been inspired by base motives — desires to appropriate art to a national or a political cause . |
| 21 | A book is allocated to an individual or a project leader for team use . |