Example sentences of "the [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 2 | Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) . |
| 3 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
| 4 | A Cathedral is the principal church of a Diocese , not necessarily the largest or most magnificent . |
| 5 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 6 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 7 | The frail or very elderly account for an increasing number of pensioners , and that emphasises the importance of nursing home and residential care . |
| 8 | Of the eight or so tonic preparations currently listed in Martindale 's Extra Pharmacopoeia , all contain glycerophosphate and half contain strychnine ; examples are Glytona , Glykola and Neuro Phosphates . |
| 9 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 11 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 12 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 13 | In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " . |
| 14 | This was announced at our February meeting and was met with great approval from the fifty or so members present . |
| 15 | Whenever possible , Laura tried to visit the Mill personally and Hetherington was struck by her ability to pick a ‘ winning ’ cloth instantly from the fifty or so patterns he would show her . |
| 16 | The fifty or so miles unravel slowly , and I ca n't help feeling , pointlessly . |
| 17 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 18 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 19 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 20 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 21 | But in the Cambrian or earlier the chordates no doubt included animals little more highly organized than the contemporary arthropods or brachiopods . |
| 22 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 23 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 24 | Two main changes are indispensable to this end : the complete or virtually complete abolition of the licensing system , and a drastic alteration of the principles of the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 . |
| 25 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 26 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 27 | Most of the 500 or so independent political units of Europe in 1500 disappeared , absorbed by their more powerful neighbours , leaving some 25 or so victors . |
| 28 | Earlier than that I have a problem and it is my problem ; if you look at the 500 or so records I have produced there is quite a small percentage either on original instruments or of pre-Classical music . |
| 29 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 30 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |