Example sentences of "one or [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ . |
| 2 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 3 | Previous work has focused on one or a small number of these activities , such as idea generation ; screening or development work proper . |
| 4 | The position is put that the existing system ( here the method of dividing people into one or the other sex ) produces unfortunate consequences and should be abandoned . |
| 5 | Hence it is unlikely that one or the other constraint is truly redundant . |
| 6 | Hybridisation may result in the expression of traits that are characteristic of one or the other parent , but genome mixing occurs regardless . |
| 7 | He observed babies using ultrasound and discovered that each showed a preference for one or the other thumb . |
| 8 | It is assumed for the purposes of evaluation that either one or the other policy was implemented rather than both simultaneously . |
| 9 | Indeed , it will be seen that dare can express a sense very close to its meaning as a modal even while maintaining most of the syntactic characteristics of a full verb , in which case it is used with the bare form — eloquent proof that the use of one or the other version of the infinitive is conditioned by meaning and not by automatically operating syntactic rules . |
| 10 | Legs fly over tambourines held steady by one or the other partner . |
| 11 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 12 | Sometimes , when one or the other partner grows obscenely fat , goes mad , is obsessed by TV or joins a monastery , the temptation to find ‘ a bit on the side ’ can be very compelling . |
| 13 | Accordingly , in allocating each of the matched subjects to either the control or to the experimental group , and to ensure that there is no surreptitious influence determining this allocation , the researcher randomly allocates one of each matched pair of subjects to one or the other group . |
| 14 | He 'll be cheering himself up in one or the other place by now without a backward glance . |