Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matching fringes give a rich finish or perhaps you could add a very heavy tassel to each of the corners to weight them . |
| 2 | The effective management of teaching staff has either been nonexistent , regarded as a low priority or actively denied . |
| 3 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 4 | But if the application of law to fact is not clear , you need not state a definite opinion or even ‘ submit ’ that the position is so-and-so . |
| 5 | Although often studying less controversial forces than the RUC , this panglossian portrayal has to be disbelieved , especially as the authors often indicated in an occasional footnote , or in a revealing preface or aside , that they faced problems in the field similar to our own ( for example , see van Maamen 1981 : 479 , 492 ; Westley 1970 , p. vii ) , even when the research was covert ( Holdaway 1982 , 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 6 | Whether you save yourself , a wounded friend or even an unconscious attacker , the knowledge is vital . |
| 7 | Target Date can be a specific date or as general as just the month or year in which you hope that goal will be achieved . |
| 8 | In s. 9(1) ( a ) it is not necessary to show that the accused intended to take a specific object or even that that object was in the building : A-G 's Refs ( Nos 1 and 2 of 1979 ) [ 1980 ] QB 180 ( CA ) . |
| 9 | Try it with a spicy stew or even a traditional roast . |
| 10 | To use a Reset poke it 's vital that you possess a Reset cartridge or much cheaper Reset switch ( if you can find one ) . |
| 11 | It is tempting to lop off a discreet year or so but be careful with other dates ; will they believe you took your degree at 15 ? |
| 12 | You will probably not succeed in being word-perfect , and there is danger in reciting a memorised speech either of appearing unnatural or of forgetting a complete section or even coming to a dead halt . |
| 13 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 14 | Call it a fictional biography , a historical fantasy or just plain lies . |
| 15 | Nothing of any depth has been done to give the wider public , and especially young people , a cultural background or rather , an educational training , which transcends mere entertainment or spectacle . |
| 16 | For some women at this stage , cooking can become an absorbing hobby rather than the necessity of life it was when there were others to feed — a social pleasure or simply a personal indulgence . |
| 17 | Around the fires , the soldiers : sitting on kitbags cleaning their weapons ; smoking ; a few reading or even writing . |
| 18 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 19 | But you do n't have to be a racing driver or even very rich to enjoy the Historic Cars . |
| 20 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 21 | This fitted flush into the centre of the putter 's head a half inch or so behind the face . |
| 22 | In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town . |
| 23 | Selective pressures for a system of communication of this kind might have produced , through different mutations for new behaviour , a different dance or indeed wholly different behaviour types , serving the same function . |
| 24 | If the haemoglobin remains normal after a year it should then be checked after a further year or sooner if the patient becomes symptomatic . |
| 25 | No doubt " and emptiness " adds a further precision or perhaps elaboration to the of line A ; that is to say , to the idea of ignorable non-existence is added that of chaotic absence of form . |
| 26 | The intervals are predetermined by the elements of a motor task or more simply by the target cycle time of a task . |
| 27 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 28 | A year of continuous musical training at a conservatoire and she would be fit for a top orchestra or even the concert platform . |
| 29 | Much of the ceramic material in eastern England , less so in the south , is stamped , that is decorated by pressing a carved die or naturally occurring object into the surface . |
| 30 | Moreover , at the beginning of such crises the production of consumer goods either remained at a high level or actually continued to increase . |