Example sentences of "one [noun sg] or [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socially this is a serious problem because most of these countries were experiencing housing stress of one kind or another even before the recent downturn in house production . |
| 2 | Not being taken in by the belief that " help " of one kind or another really is helpful : it may actually hinder someone else 's growth towards maturity . |
| 3 | The ‘ truth ’ is then assigned to one level or another yet although these effects may be real , different people will attribute the ‘ true ’ cause to different levels . |
| 4 | His application of the variation principle to plainsong , Lutheran hymns , and Huguenot psalms goes far beyond the ‘ organ hymns ’ and versets of earlier generations , and differs from his secular variations in that the basic melody is generally preserved intact as cantus firmus in one part or another throughout . |
| 5 | In many human societies virtually everyone is treated as a kinsman of one sort or another so that alliances established by marriage are simply the renewal of links which have also existed in the past . |
| 6 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 7 | I think she 's too many problems and one thing or another so I just , I just |
| 8 | ‘ Look , sweetheart , you do n't have to make up your mind one way or another right now — but the club 's yours to run , if you want it . ’ |
| 9 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 10 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 11 | The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque . |
| 12 | Erm we 've heard about the measured approach , the step by step approach er and Mr , has said , please make your mind up one way or another so we can proceed with our local plan preparation . |
| 13 | In one way or another almost all the world 's energy resources derive from the sun . |
| 14 | Lotus calls this Perspective mode — you can see three parts of one sheet or three completely separate sheets on one screen |
| 15 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |