Example sentences of "a [adj] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 2 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 3 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 4 | Awards may be held on either a full-time or a part-time basis . |
| 5 | With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour . |
| 6 | Following Sambrook 's logic , though he does not use these terms , this image may interpreted either in a descriptive or a normative sense . |
| 7 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 8 | All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias . |
| 9 | So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future . |
| 10 | It is best to acknowledge that " style " , like " meaning " , is a word which can be used either in a broader or a narrower sense . |
| 11 | He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis . |
| 12 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 13 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 14 | Sisters were categorised by Orton ( 1980 ) as having either a high or a low student orientation . |
| 15 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 16 | She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’ |
| 17 | Will students in receipt of a grant or an allowance who are paid once per term have a high or a low transactions demand for money relative to their income ? |
| 18 | Bibliographic citations , adequate for most commonly used bibliographic packages , in either a free or a tightly structured format ; and , |
| 19 | Lovely , now me , I 'm an ex-M A T S A member , I 'm in the security industry , at the moment I have n't got a section , so what am I a Bosnian , a Serbian or a Croatian I do n't know . |
| 20 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 21 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 22 | These societies would have the duty of distributing the dividends from the shares on either a universal or a restricted basis . |
| 23 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 24 | Section 4(2) of the Public Order Act 1986 extends the old Section 5 breach of the peace offence by providing : An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . |
| 25 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 2 ) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . ’ |
| 27 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 28 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 29 | Shoes and socks are tackled before trousers , and track-suit trousers with an elasticated waist would be chosen for either a male or a female patient . |
| 30 | Cousin in 1 can , of course , refer to either a male or a female cousin . |