Example sentences of "or [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure . |
| 2 | Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message . |
| 3 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 4 | The time of germination , flowering , fruiting , or leaf-fall and general senescence , may be determined by day length — for day length , after all , is a much more reliable indicator of the time of year than temperature is , for example . |
| 5 | total loss by physical severence or complete and irrecoverable loss of use of either one or both hands and/or both feet |
| 6 | Talk to many a railwayman about the Blea Moor Tunnel and you will find either a spontaneous reaction of a flow of stories or complete and total silence . |
| 7 | I had risen above him and was now in the state of dung-hai , or complete and utter superiority to Quigley . |
| 8 | Three key dimensions are recognized as specific to runaways : age ; absence of permission to leave or covert or forcible ejection ; length of time since leaving . |
| 9 | " Lack of care for the consequences of exuberant reporting is not malice and nor is mere inaccuracy or a failure to make inquiries or accidental or negligent mis-quotation . |
| 10 | It is a main way in which cultural production can be related , often very precisely , to social classes and other groups which can also be defined in other social terms , by political or economic or occupational analysis . |
| 11 | He was born into the lower-middle-middle or upper-lower-middle or middle-lower-middle class of our hey diddle diddle society , and an adoring mother and a witty but ‘ hilariously unambitious ’ father brought up their only son on rectitude , decency and the mid-century Englishness of tea , quietness , the Daily Telegraph and Somerset cricket . |
| 12 | Many low-income LDCs have no access to market funds ( bank loans or bond issues ) and must therefore rely on concessionary funds or multilateral and bilateral aid . |
| 13 | any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war or not ) , civil war , rebellion , insurrection , military or usurped power or confiscation , requisition , or destruction of or damage to property by or under the order of any government or public or local authority ; |
| 14 | The parties to a conflict remain , moreover , parts of a single society by virtue of their acknowledgement of a common name , by their participation in certain common divisions of labour and allocation from which they can not extricate themselves except by secession , emigration or anchoritic or cenobitic withdrawal . |
| 15 | Adult opinion has swung back and forward as to the value of one method or another and sheer fashion plays a part in determining feeding methods from one generation — or one decade — to the next . |
| 16 | A layer of peat and gravel , or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium . |
| 17 | No matter how ‘ good ’ the ideas of a fat or old or disabled woman , our sexual choices are limited . |
| 18 | Liberal politicians led by Gladstone remained convinced that state action posed a danger to individual freedom , and would rarely assist economic growth or social or moral improvement . |
| 19 | Even a slight knowledge of modern political or social or religious history will make us accept this truth , sadly . |
| 20 | If war was a means of achieving peace , or social and political harmony and order , how compatible were the activities of many soldiers with that aim ? |
| 21 | This attention to the total psychological development of the child is indeed a new phenomenon , in that earlier generations of parents have been chiefly preoccupied by the related themes of physical survival and moral growth , rather than with concepts of mental health or social and emotional adjustment . |
| 22 | It enables the counsellor to focus upon the changes brought about by changing diet , medication , or social and psychological circumstance . |
| 23 | Thatcherism makes intellectual liberty just another commodity , to be enjoyed when there is no particular political or commercial or administrative price to be paid for it , but abandoned , with no evident grief , when the price begins to rise . |
| 24 | There are those that relate directly to particular teaching subjects — new teaching packages and teaching methods in history or French or integrated science . |
| 25 | When the first coat is dry , lightly sand with fine glasspaper or wet and dry paper to remove any nibs or particles of dust which may have settled on the surface . |
| 26 | Both acute inflammation and healing take place simultaneously for three months or more without further treatment and ulcers may cause bleeding , perforation , or pyloric or duodenal stenosis with time . |
| 27 | Of this , 25 per cent would come from a share issue in 1990 or 1991 and new bank borrowings . |
| 28 | Any unexpected impairment of use of the injured part , such as being unable to weight-bear on an injured leg or limited and painful use of a wrist after a fall , especially in a child . |
| 29 | If you need to lower the gearing the only way would be to reduce the tyre size to 205 x 16 or similar and fit Range Rover high range transfer gears or overdrive to restore a respectable road speed . |
| 30 | A degree in Politics is one of the best first degree courses for a student wanting to make a career in business , administration , the media , voluntary bodies or central and local government . |