Example sentences of "[that] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 2 | From this it can be inferred that monetary or economic activity ( defined as the intensity of coin use and hence loss ) was greater in rural than in urban centres in the last century of Roman rule in Britain . |
| 3 | And the idea that postural or emotional changes could bring on purring also seems far-fetched . |
| 4 | The evidence I have reviewed points to the possibility that poor-quality or transmission-style teaching arises in some subject teaching , not because that subject is being taught by poorly qualified generalists , but by other specialists whose commitments lie elsewhere and whose preferred pedagogical approaches are seen as incompatible with those required in subject areas other than their own . |
| 5 | Moreover there is always a chance that repressed or submerged feeling can well up — with added force and disastrous effect . |
| 6 | Lord Simon stressed that technical or precise language need not be used ( see Abbassy v. Newman ( C.A. , 1989 ) ) . |
| 7 | If you are taken ill abroad , bear in mind that free or reduced cost emergency medical treatment is available in other European Community countries for visitors from the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Taking a simple case , there may be evidence that day-care or short-stay surgery is just as effective , but of lower cost , than traditional surgery ( Russell et al , 1977 ) ; Waller et al , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | This work showed clearly that high or variable caustic concentration affects the type and size of salt crystals , which in turn affects the solid/liquid separation efficiency in the centrifuges . |
| 10 | Nor can the undoubted fact that middle- or upper-class pressure groups and campaigns are generally much more politically effective than attempts to mobilize working-class interests . |
| 11 | The announcement came against a background of rumours that unemployed or impoverished nuclear weapons experts in the former Soviet republics might be hired by other countries , resulting in the proliferation of nuclear expertise . |
| 12 | They were at pains to prove that moral or immoral development was not fixed or inevitable , for all the evolutionary stress on inherited characteristics . |
| 13 | More recently , stories have circulated that mechanical or electrical faults in factories are due to gremlins taking over the working of machines . |
| 14 | The danger of injury or death arises less from fights between rival groups of fans as from the panic that actual or threatened attacks provoke amongst the general public . |
| 15 | We telephoned all patients who stated that actual or possible inflammatory bowel disease was present in one or more family members and obtained the names and dates of birth of the affected family members . |
| 16 | Affording no weight to extra market considerations , whether good or bad , means that individual or income group economic welfare is being identified with command over market goods or services alone . |
| 17 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 18 | As the poem progresses , we might assume that contextual or latent discourse referents are less likely to be introduced , for we read and interpret in the light of what has gone before — of previous elements in the utterance . |
| 19 | The Pope implied that apostolic or divine inspiration had led to the crowning , Charles was therefore ‘ crowned by God ’ . |
| 20 | One compelling reason for trying to improve selection methods is that poor personnel selection practices can be very costly to an organisation : Schmidt and Hunter ( 1981 ) estimated that poor or non-existent selection by the US Federal Government costs $16 billion a year . |
| 21 | Our attention has been drawn to the fact that this could be read as a suggestion that illegal or improper activities were taking place within the club . |
| 22 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 23 | It is through the use of animal characters that epic or heroic imagery becomes mock-heroic ; for instance of Chauntecleer , the cock : So too the solemnity of the debate over the significance of dreams , introduced by Chauntecleer with a pompous " " Madame " " and rhetorically conducted by the citation of a battery of learned authorities , becomes a burlesque in the mouth of this proud bird . |
| 24 | The associative process did not work with Rufus in quite the same way as it did with his erstwhile friend , Adam Verne-Smith , for Adam was an ‘ arts ’ person and he a scientist , so that Greek or Spanish names , for instance , evoked none of it . |
| 25 | In other words do they assume that biological or cultural categories are unproblematic ? |
| 26 | If neither of these methods works , it is likely that fat or grease is blocking the branch waste pipe further along . |
| 27 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 28 | Finally — a very neat blow at any remaining opposition — he pointed out that only people who were mentally ill allowed themselves to be guided by ‘ persuasions of immediate intercourse with the deity ’ , so that prophetic or bardic inspiration was simply a delusion . |
| 29 | Severe deficiencies of these nutrients occur only rarely , but it is becoming increasingly appreciated that mild or borderline levels of these nutrients may be found not infrequently in the " normal population " . |
| 30 | The periphery refers to practically anywhere ( including the mainstream and ‘ quality ’ press we have already looked at ) that oppositional or , as is more likely , alternative criticism might occur . |