Example sentences of "or [adj] and [art] " in BNC.

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1 Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle .
2 Changes in the grade structures following re-organisation of the general service had repercussions on crewing , some of our friends at HQ had moved on or retired and a harder line was being taken by their replacements towards our hitherto fairly flexible conditions of service .
3 Eric would perhaps have been killed or wounded and the suspicious position of the car might well have been noticed by somebody .
4 Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours .
5 The eggs are usually bright orange , red or brown and the fry apparently browse on al ; gae .
6 In the confusion of battle an accident might decide the issue one way or another and the fortunes of a single day might undo the patient work of months or years .
7 However , the relationship between action groups of one sort or another and the local and central governmental authorities is by no means always smooth .
8 I am also concerned that after this debate there will be no winners not even the fox , for it will be killed it will be killed in some way or another and the feelings that are left between the two differing sides will harbour grudges and resentment for many months to come and I 'd like to also bearing in mind the comments that were made by Councillor ask how committed the people who have proposed this mo motion are against barbaric sport .
9 All 36 species of big cat are either vulnerable or endangered and the tiger , the cheetah , the snow leopard , the jaguar and the cougar are now facing extinction .
10 Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240Mb hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1,152 by 900 resolution and a 14″ colour monitor .
11 Called the DTK Station Classic+ , it comes with either Solaris 1.1 or 2.1 and an optional second 240MB hard drive , CG3 graphics for 1152 x 900 resolution and a 14-inch colour monitor .
12 Or nineteen and a half something like that .
13 Try the static , standing poses first , then draw more active poses in which the spine is bent or twisted and the limbs are flung wide .
14 Try the static , standing poses first , then draw more active poses in which the spine is bent or twisted and the limbs are flung wide .
15 Planning was often difficult or impossible and the need for home care was less .
16 Frequency of repetition will depend on whether the condition is acute or chronic and the vitality of the patient .
17 Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market .
18 The transfection experiments using constructions encompassing oligonucleotides I or III and the HSV-tk promoter demonstrated a less pronounced increase in transcription ( 2 to 3 times ) compared with the effect of the same sequences when located in the context of the entire promoter ( quotient ΔX/Δ63 in Figure 1 ) .
19 If the ‘ upper class ’ is generally reckoned to be marginal or vestigial and the two principal classes are seen as ‘ middle ’ and ‘ working ’ then it is clear that the British ‘ class system ’ of popular ideology is not equivalent to a ruling class/dominated class dichotomy .
20 is approximately fifteen hundred kilometres two and a half thousand kilometres or three and a half thousand kilometres ?
21 So it 's three months or three and a half months .
22 Well I do n't know , but it , it is a long way down , people who do n't know Lord 's , you have to come down from , er and er perhaps they 're not quite ready , but it is there must have taken , I do n't , next time perhaps put the clock on it , but this must be a three minute or three and a half minute .
23 Hit a double or treble and the value of that score is counted , eg double four counts as eight .
24 ‘ What do you do if your best friend is injured or ill and the vet 's fees mean trouble for you too ? ’
25 The plumage was usually bronze or black and the breast was narrow , quite different from the broad-breasted , white-feathered fowls which are bred in such huge numbers today .
26 The first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple .
27 Mr Mayhew insisted his company was unaware of any connection between its employees past or present and the Shankill Butchers gang .
28 This details its past record , how its performance is expected to be affected by the jockey , whether the grass is soft or firm and the distance .
29 Altogether £345.15 was collected by fair means or foul and the Company has very generously rounded this up to £500 .
30 Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics .
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