Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 2 | The backgrounds are available in two types — a rugged grey rock strata or a more knobbly brown variety called fossil . |
| 3 | The trustee may require a proof of debt to be verified by affidavit in the form set out in Schedule 4 to the rules or a substantially similar form ( Form 6.39 , see App C , form 35 ) . |
| 4 | If in any particular case because of a failure of the court to follow the rules or the well established practice there is a likelihood that injustice may have been done … a case should be relisted for hearing . ’ |
| 5 | You could tell where the best-known pros or the most famous celebrities were by the larger galleries following them . |
| 6 | Either the form with the above-mentioned characteristics or a slightly larger form with longer leaves . |
| 7 | They may take the form of disrupted relationships or the more obvious one of problematic or bizarre sexual behaviour . |
| 8 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 9 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 10 | As in any jet , thrust controls speed and elevator maintains glide angle on a continuous curving base leg to a four-mile final at a thousand feet or a little below . |
| 11 | Thus it seems that the HGT-1 cell line contains subpopulations of epithelial cells , two of which may have a comparatively high density of H 2 receptors or a particularly efficient interaction between the H 2 receptor and adenylate cyclase . |
| 12 | Sales will be recognised when title passes or a separately identifiable phase of a contract or development has been completed and its overall profitability can be reasonably foreseen . |
| 13 | Sales will be recognised when title passes or a separately identifiable phase of a contract or development has been completed and its overall profitability can be reasonably foreseen . |
| 14 | As no semitones , major sevenths , minor ninths , etc. , are possible , the maximum amount of dissonance obtainable is through either adjacent tones or the more benign tritone . |
| 15 | This means they are often in the hands of high officials or the extremely rich — the very people who are hardest to persuade to give up their illegal captives . |
| 16 | Such linkages may , in this context , be informal social community organisations or the more formal social forces provided by the church or traditional groupings . |
| 17 | They are patterns of information that can thrive only in brains or the artificially manufactured products of brains — books , computers , and so on . |
| 18 | There 's a wealth of things to do here , from visiting the fortress or the water gardens at Hellbrunn , to wandering around the museums or the very elegant shops in the old town . |
| 19 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 20 | Very common for those who have left the whole process too late , perhaps because of exam pressures or the more attractive diversions of student life . |
| 21 | But in the anti-colonial revolutions and the Soviet Union today external oppression is as commonly the fundamental source of the creation of a national group , no matter how much that group defines itself in relationship to inherited cultural symbols or a supposedly common past . |
| 22 | One of the more interesting adjuncts to the Act for Burying in Woollen was the introduction of the funeral ticket — whether first suggested by the jobbing printers or a particularly ingenious coffin-maker is not known . |
| 23 | Issues which must be incorporated are the extent to which Latin Americans — either the educated elites or the mostly under-educated masses — are receptive or responsive to Marxist propaganda . |
| 24 | ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . ) |
| 25 | Or maybe the sun on white stucco ( really London was much prettier than one remembered ) or the cheerful scarlet of buses or the continuously satisfying recollection of the terns and the oblivious complacency of pink tie and striped shirt in their sealed air-conditioned office . |
| 26 | Sure , The La 's will never be stand-up comedians or the most demonstrative folk , but this music does send you places . |
| 27 | Now er in Amendment twenty-seven the Government proposes a slightly different procedures or a more explicit procedure for the er for er for as to how these appointments shall be made . |
| 28 | Many factors will influence the timing of the offer including the following : ( 1 ) The offeror will not wish to announce a contested bid at a time when the target company is about to announce record results or a greatly increased dividend ; research on this possibility will be required . |
| 29 | The translation problem is even more difficult when faced with presenting Jesus as the ‘ Good Shepherd ’ ( Ps. 23 and John 10 ) in parts of Africa where the care of sheep is relegated to children or the mentally subnormal . |
| 30 | Minton frequently ended the day at Apollo Place with a strange collection of individuals for his sympathy with outsiders led him to pick up strays or the obviously lonely . |