Example sentences of "[adj] or in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 2 | Whether in the SenFed or in the Freeworlds that have n't joined , there is simply no such thing as one hundred percent security . |
| 3 | However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) . |
| 4 | Unless your rug is very old or in a poor state of repair — in which case a specialist cleaner should be consulted — the best way to remove grit and dirt is to use a carpet sweeper or vacuum cleaner with beater bars . |
| 5 | Now , just a short time after the ‘ Currency , Economic and Social Union ’ , almost 20 per cent of the workforce is unemployed or in a desperate situation as a result of the imposition of short-time working . |
| 6 | Finally , there were occasional commendations , whether verbal or in the form of small sums of cash , from philanthropic organizations . |
| 7 | Tiles can be laid on the diagonal or in a basket weave design to produce handsome effects . |
| 8 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 9 | Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed . |
| 10 | The designs , covering many furniture types , are plain and functional or in a competent but unimaginative neo-classical manner , which seems indebted to the example of James Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | Now , ’ she added with a complete change of subject that left Ellie feeling bewildered , ‘ you must n't feel awkward or in the way , because we 're delighted to have you to stay . |
| 12 | The letters or packages are kept under lock and key or in the safe and when guests collect them they must sign the record book to indicate that they have taken delivery . |
| 13 | Precious Metals Division 's performance was impacted by precious metal prices which were either flat or in the case of rhodium significantly lower . |
| 14 | For Wolfenden , these special circumstances were defined as the ‘ provision of sufficient safeguards against exploitation and corruption of others who are especially vulnerable because they are young , weak in body or mind , inexperienced or in a state of special physical , official or economic dependence ’ . |
| 15 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 16 | At the moment , a SuperSparc comes stand-alone or in a system-ready Mbus module consisting of a single Viking on a standard Mbus plug-in board or with a Multi-cache Module Controller and 1Mb of expansion cache memory which can operate in the Xbus mode for large-scale multiprocessing . |
| 17 | Shall we be alone or in a crowd ? |
| 18 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 19 | Subrules 1a and 1b specify that in monomorphemic monosyllables ( o ) will be realized as a raised and lengthened variant before a voiceless fricative occurring either alone or in a cluster ; alternatively , it will be raised and lengthened before any voiced consonant either alone or in a cluster . |
| 20 | Subrules 1a and 1b specify that in monomorphemic monosyllables ( o ) will be realized as a raised and lengthened variant before a voiceless fricative occurring either alone or in a cluster ; alternatively , it will be raised and lengthened before any voiced consonant either alone or in a cluster . |
| 21 | The latter finding arose from an observation by Brown and his colleagues ( 1966 ) that patients discharged to live alone or in a hostel often fared rather better than those who went to live with a spouse or parent . |
| 22 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |
| 23 | In composites where the fibres are bidirectional or in the form of a chopped mat , the ratio of modulus to density is reduced , but the composite is stiff in all directions . |
| 24 | Chapter 10 explained that although the four macroeconomic objectives listed earlier are each related in some manner to the level of demand , the relationship is by no means uniform or in the same direction . |
| 25 | Here the employer chooses , by whatever method he likes , a specialist either in the specification prior to tender or in a variation order during the course of the contract . |
| 26 | In general , married women could find paid employment only when the family income was insufficient or in a family business such as a shop . |
| 27 | They could be conventionally square or round or in the shape of long slits so that the adjoining room shows through and gives extra perspective . |
| 28 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 29 | Arrangements are being made , we are informed , for those of us who , oddly enough , prefer to have our correspondence marked with its specific place of origin , to deposit our post in a wee box up a close or in a back street away from the main mail collection points . |
| 30 | Painful , very hard lumps , especially if associated with an injury , either recent or in the past . |