Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be twenty five pound a day as well , or fifty pound a day as well . |
| 2 | In dense jungle or tall grass the shooting was usually done from elephant back , a comparatively safe exercise except when a cornered tiger sprang at the howdah in which the shikari and his gun-bearer were poised on the elephant . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly this is an excellent text for giving the first- or second-year undergraduate the all-round flavour of the subject . |
| 4 | In the absence of any third party judicial or administrative procedure the parties can ignore a defect supposedly invalidating a treaty , and continue to regard the treaty as valid ; the concept of absolute invalidity has little practical application in treaty law . |
| 5 | There is a limit of £750,000 on the amount an eligible company can raise under the BES in any tax year , although for ship operating or chartering companies or assured tenancies the limit is £5m . |
| 6 | At the end of each week or each month the retailer ( or the accounts department , in a big firm ) totals up the petty cash paid for that period . |
| 7 | Well a man is n't subject to moods or premenstrual tension a guy is n't going to phone in sick with some crap about cramps . |
| 8 | In the case of Pradakshina or clockwise movement the right-angled Swastika is used ; for Apradakshina or anticlockwise movement the left-angled Swastika would be applied . |
| 9 | In the case of Pradakshina or clockwise movement the right-angled Swastika is used ; for Apradakshina or anticlockwise movement the left-angled Swastika would be applied . |
| 10 | Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day . |
| 11 | No sooner had IBM Corp announced a grotesque $5,463m net loss for the fourth quarter , which included a first ever operating loss of $45m or eight cents a share , than IBM UK Ltd chipped in with figures that were relatively even worse than those of its parent . |
| 12 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 13 | I can well believe that when he now catches this distinctive smell when passing Indian or Pakistani restaurants a nausea returns to him — it is , so to speak , the cuisine of shame . |
| 14 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 15 | We do that in Parliament and my minicab drivers tell me that they work about 60 or 70 hours a week . |
| 16 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
| 17 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 18 | Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police . |
| 19 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 20 | In order to reflect a relative difference between the ear or half fields a laterality coefficient may be computed according to the formula |
| 21 | ten pounds like this gentleman for a child which costs thirty or forty pounds a week to bring up . |
| 22 | He loved to swim and was capable of walking thirty or forty miles a day with a quick , light step described as slightly feminine . |
| 23 | With non-word letter strings or multi-syllabic words the position is less clear . |
| 24 | As to ‘ harming no one ’ , I have presented arguments elsewhere to the effect that ‘ harm ’ , being a rule-dependent concept , is indeterminate unless and until moral principles or legal rules are brought into play to define with greater or lesser precision the legitimate interests and the general good . |
| 25 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 26 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 27 | To greater or lesser extent the debate hinges on the faith participants have in the ability of market forces to work effectively . |
| 28 | With the " novel " element displacing to a greater or lesser extent the " detective " element , you will probably find that you need a less complicated murder to be the subject of the logical deduction which will eventually reveal it for what it is . |
| 29 | By 1985 the five network companies were producing 45.5 per cent of the ITV programmes , amounting to more than 40 peak or near-peak hours a week . |
| 30 | I do n't know if prudent or reckless love is the better , moneyed or penniless love the surer , heterosexual or homosexual love the sexier , married or unmarried love the stronger . |