Example sentences of "or [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small cabins were dotted about at the side of fields , mostly ruined or used as farm sheds , but in some cases inhabited . |
| 2 | Many of these problems centred on the way schools deployed their PNP coordinators ( see pp. 102–8 ) , but Scale 1/MPG staff could also find themselves marginalized or used as supply teachers or even ancillaries in the very way the Authority had warned against . |
| 3 | Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone . |
| 4 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 5 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 6 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 7 | Because of the number of peaks , the structured form must contain a twofold symmetry if duplex , or fourfold if tetraplex . |
| 8 | You can choose cotton that 's blissfully warm , or crisp and cool ; hard wearing and tough , or soft as velvet . |
| 9 | A tall , turbulent white steam column rolls upwards above the vent , often becoming grey or black as ash is blasted upwards . |
| 10 | Whether the before-tax competitive share of labour is increased or decreased depends on whether the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour is greater or less than unity . |
| 11 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 12 | This should arguably supply a greater surface for bacteria than gravel — internal and external as the media is porous — and wo n't cost a great deal more or less than gravel . |
| 13 | The Minister was engaged in nothing more or less than casuistry . |
| 14 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 15 | Obviously it 's nowhere near as deep or complicated as Bard 's Tale , but it 's still a force to be reckoned with — especially now you get the expansion set thrown in too . |
| 16 | Consider the argument of Nicos Poulantzas who asserts that nations are as old as or older than class society ( as if the two modes of analysis are not mutually reinforcing ) , will persist after the State disappears , and possess a ‘ transhistorical irreducibility ’ . |
| 17 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 18 | Was it better than school or worse than school ? |
| 19 | At its most ludicrous , this makes the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley suspect , or worse than suspect , simply because it alludes to Edmund Waller , whereas the okay authors from Waller 's period , among pedestrian readers of Eliot 's essays , are taken to be Donne and Marvell . |
| 20 | In its usage of the real or referent as signifier , surrealism eminently illustrated de-differentiated signification . |
| 21 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 22 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 23 | The number of printable characters since the last new-line ( COUNT ) is compared with X. If X is equal or greater than COUNT , sufficient spaces to make them equal are printed . |
| 24 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 25 | Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him . |
| 26 | Sometimes , it may be wise to arrange for the mortgage advance to come a day or two before completion is scheduled . |
| 27 | The only difficulty with arranging for the mortgage advance to come a day or two early is that interest will be charged to the client-borrower a day or two before completion is actually scheduled . |
| 28 | In summary , Tunguska was probably a fairly strong , dense , asteroid-like object , but probably not as strong or dense as iron . |
| 29 | Frosts can occur well into the summer , while snow may fall in spring , and autumn days can be as balmy as summer or bitter as winter . |
| 30 | ( Longer , personalized speech by old friend or relative when bride 's father is present but does not make a speech . ) |