Example sentences of "an [adj] or a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe that the migration rates that should be used should be a three year average rather than an eight or a ten year average . |
| 2 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 3 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |
| 4 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 5 | A book is allocated to an individual or a project leader for team use . |
| 6 | The effect of both these procedures is that the defaulting party has 21 days in which to make the payment , following which the party making the demand can present a bankruptcy petition against an individual or a winding-up petition against a company . |
| 7 | There is evidence that some species of trichonemes may become resistant to benzimidazole compounds and to avoid this it is suggested that these should be alternated with chemically unrelated anthelmintics on an annual or a six-monthly basis . |
| 8 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 9 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 10 | We are clued into Artistic seriousness by an arabesque or a beaten jump , into Moral seriousness by a hungry contraction or protracted lift . |
| 11 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 12 | my Lord my Lord I do n't understand what 's supposed to be meant by malign or bad , it 's concerned with appreciable and appreciable and er something which has an appreciable or a more audane minimize impact upon the competition if it arise erm here perhaps because it , it is er a question of fairness but not normally |
| 13 | The extent to which the exchange rate can contribute to the adjustment mechanism , in either an automatic or a discretionary manner , is influenced by the type of exchange rate system in operation . |
| 14 | The widely-held fears stem from the reasonable assumption that an independent or a devolved Scotland would be incapable of existing without considerable handouts from Whitehall and would have an administration with more than a left-wing tinge . |
| 15 | This fury can look like an onanistic or a solipsistic fury . |
| 16 | Analysis of ozone measurements for the 1970s , taken by 36 Dobson spectrophotometers throughout the world , reveal no evidence for either an upward or a downward trend , either on a global basis or on a regional basis ( Reinsel , 1981 ; Reinsel et al. , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or |
| 18 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or ’ Telephone means the same public system as at the alternative point at 2 ante . |
| 19 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character , or ’ This point is proved as the last point with the recipient explaining the indecent , obscene or menacing nature of the call . |
| 20 | As he was not an insensitive or a brave man , the larger items in the national dailies frequently upset him and clouded his mind with vague anxieties . |
| 21 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
| 22 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 23 | Whether you want an active or a relaxed holiday in Bavaria , one thing does n't alter — the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery in Germany . |
| 24 | We discuss later in the chapter ( see section 8.4 ) the kinds of factors that determine whether a speaker decides to use an active or a passive sentence and factors that determine other such decisions about sentence structure . |
| 25 | Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture , and production latency was measured . |
| 26 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |