Example sentences of "a [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 2 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |
| 3 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 4 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 5 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 6 | The Ronseal varnishes used here can also be applied to a painted or previously varnished surface that has been rubbed down with a fine abrasive paper . |
| 7 | 3.13 The best way to form a view on the current level of damages for pain and suffering simpliciter is to study recent awards for minor injuries , where there has been a complete or almost complete recovery . |
| 8 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 9 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 10 | You know where he lives in England we 're very quite a generally quite a tolerant or comparatively quite a tolerant society . |
| 11 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 12 | Discussions of how the relative strength of States should be evaluated were common , but none of their authors succeeded in finding a clear or universally applicable solution to the problem . |
| 13 | The coordinating nurse on each shift ‘ liaises ’ with the admissions office regarding bed availability , and will frequently act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ and ‘ spokesperson ’ for the ward — with the aid of an established ward standard — if the total patient dependency score and staff skill mix ratio is not compatible with maintaining a high or even safe level of patient care . |
| 14 | While some studies indicate a direct or indeed no relation between the serum cholesterol concentration and large bowel cancer , others indicate an inverse relation . |
| 15 | Most customers come by car , and do their shopping on a weekly or even monthly basis , so hypermarkets have large car parks . |
| 16 | The probability that a fetus will be aborted appears to increase in a linear or nearly geometric fashion with pregnancy order ( Table A. 12 ) . |
| 17 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 18 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 19 | Not , however , a personal or directly romantic pastoral . |
| 20 | There is a fortune on offer for the side that go into the European Cup 's mini-league , the build-up has been intense and not many of the players will have taken part in a bigger or more crucial event . |
| 21 | In Vienna , the architect Hans Hollein has produced small new shopfronts that are a sensation ; so there is no reason why appropriately sited new shopfronts , in a contemporary or even futuristic style , can not sometimes add zip to a high street . |
| 22 | A new owner , or his agent , may have found too many properties to maintain , at the same time new premises would have been needed for managers in a central or more convenient position relative to the estate , or within reach of an important market . |
| 23 | The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ . |
| 24 | It can be either a simple or much fuller one . |
| 25 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 26 | a six or so I knew what , that the nine was no good to me or the |
| 27 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 28 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 29 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 30 | It has three Vermeers ( only 30 exist ) , notably Head of a Girl and View of Delft ( to Proust , the most beautiful painting in the world ) , a dozen jolly Steens , full of lasciviousness and coded morality , a dozen or more great Rembrandts , and Paulus Potter 's huge Young Bull . |