Example sentences of "or [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership is open to any company that designs , manufactures , sells or supports generally-available products conforming to layer 3 or below of the Open Systems Interconnection model , such as bridges , routers , hubs or adaptor boards . |
| 2 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 3 | It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation . |
| 4 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 5 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 6 | The twenty years or so of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars produced a very rapid rise indeed in food prices . |
| 7 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 8 | Around 30 or so of the larger lakes remain , mostly composed of heavy crude oil which is solidifying into a sticky , semi-viscous non-porous layer . |
| 9 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 10 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 11 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 12 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 13 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 14 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 15 | The management of the economy through fiscal policy is assisted by the multiplier which magnifies any injection of expenditures or leakages of income into or out of the circular flow . |
| 16 | Twenty years back he must have been the most exciting man any girl could hope to meet , in or out of the British Army . |
| 17 | There is no universally accepted pattern for the distribution of governmental services between the various agencies of the state , or even of the appropriate services to be performed collectively through government rather than by private initiative . |
| 18 | ‘ No class in Russian history ’ , to quote a leading liberal historian , ‘ has had a more momentous impact on the destinies of that nation or indeed of the modern world . ’ |
| 19 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 20 | The overall structure of the repressor when bound to DNA is little changed from that of the holorepressor ( Fig. 2 a ) , or indeed of the free aporepressor . |
| 21 | Again , though the validity of this proposition is beyond dispute , its relevance to the debate on the desirability or otherwise of the European currency union is less than obvious . |
| 22 | The effectiveness or otherwise of the various elements of these promotions provoked most of the discussion at the seminar . |
| 23 | Many factors contribute to the effectiveness or otherwise of the various techniques . |
| 24 | The approval or otherwise of the annual accounts and auditors ' reports . |
| 25 | The position of the legs , body , arms , hands and head at the top of the backswing is totally responsible for the success or otherwise of the forward swing . |
| 26 | Already an established feature in the fighting of Verdun , success or otherwise of the opposing artillery entirely predetermined the fortunes of the infantry . |
| 27 | This is in part because different investigators have held different ideas as to the independence or otherwise of the different sub-types of dyspraxia or as to the essential nature of the various defects . |
| 28 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 29 | Although he published Reimarus ' work , he was not primarily concerned with the correctness or otherwise of the particular interpretations there offered , but with a more fundamental question altogether . |
| 30 | Whilst we would not wish to comment on the suitability or otherwise of the particular applicants , we do however appreciate the value of such establishments to rural communities . |