Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is redundancy , early retirement , or any other major change possible or likely in the foreseeable future ? |
| 2 | Under the Children Act of 1948 the local authorities were given a duty to place a child in foster care unless this was not practicable or desirable in the child 's best interests . |
| 3 | His experience may tell him that it may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the circumstances , but failure to take one may become visible to headquarters . |
| 4 | These links were weak or nonexistent in the Low Country , where most villages were identified with only one caste . |
| 5 | The induction into beliefs and values separated from all that is religiously controversial or ill-fitting in a secularist , pluralist world , which the HCF model sees as the focus of RE , is performing a valuable educational service , but it is one which can and should be shared by the school as a whole , and every subject-area in it . |
| 6 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 7 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 8 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 9 | Are there decisions which could be classified as popular or unpopular in the eyes of the most important senior judges or the Lord Chancellor ? |
| 10 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 11 | There is nothing peculiar or improper in the courts , or anywhere else , proceeding on the assumption that police conclusions are reliable . |
| 12 | He was not clever or epigrammatic in the Union manner and only occasionally witty , but always spoke as though he had something to contribute to the debate . |
| 13 | Changes in diabetes treatment categories — for example , diet to oral hypoglycaemics or insulin — the number of patients admitted to hospital for diabetes related reasons , and mortality were similar or identical in the two groups ( table VI ) . |
| 14 | Mr Slieman may still be spending most of his working day shuffling ever closer to Louise , unaware or uninterested in the magic he and his house create . |
| 15 | Suffice it here to remind the teacher that areas which are well and appropriately lit in the morning may be dark or over-bright in the afternoon and vice versa . |
| 16 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 17 | No statement which you make during the interview may be given in evidence against you unless : ( a ) you are prosecuted for making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular ; or ( b ) you are prosecuted for some other offence and when giving evidence , you make a statement which is inconsistent with a statement made during the interview . |
| 18 | It was assumed that when we talk of " a style " or " the style of X " we refer to what is pervasive or recurrent in a text . |
| 19 | Yet in the end this too can be counterproductive , with children becoming confused or cynical in the face of what they may begin to see as so much mere noise . |
| 20 | If he is so intoxicated , he is almost certainly guilty of the offence of being either drunk and disorderly or drunk in a public place . |
| 21 | Through casual meetings at cafés , the artists drew together to form a movement in protest against the waste of war , against nationalism and against everything pompous , conventional or boring in the art of the Western world . |
| 22 | Indeed , involvement in a group can sometimes be the only way to encourage more withdrawn people into a counselling situation , especially those people who feel too awkward or vulnerable in a one-to-one situation . |
| 23 | In this way they assured that those among us who were anally lax or maladroit in the use of the hard , crunchy loo paper we used , would take care not to dirty their underpants . |
| 24 | Identify and discuss language features that are distinctive of the register of the newspapers , I E features common in all three newspaper articles but infrequent or non-existent in the non-use paper shapes the language features if any that distinguish the three newspaper articles from each other with emphasis on vocabulary , adjectives erm and bias and the essay title the essay length between three thousand five hundred words and our purpose in discussing this tonight as professional communicators is to help a mature overseas student of English . |
| 25 | The fact that a spoken context of utterance is constructed from a written text emphasises the separation between the real and the fictional enunciations : the referents of the personal pronouns in the text are likely to be perceived as fictive personae , while author and reader are not directly present or involved in the constructed text world . |
| 26 | There can be no right or wrong , true or false , for the primary stock of concepts from which thinking starts ; they reflect classifications of the similar and the different guided by past needs , and the inherited categories prove themselves useful or misleading in the course of putting them to service . |
| 27 | Given that the ideal of a completely objective description of style is a myth , we can only aim at RELATIVELY reliable statements about what is frequent or infrequent in a text . |
| 28 | It suggests too why the other of sexual fantasy may be stereotypical or two-dimensional in a way somehow at odds with the intensity and density of the desire which constructs it . |
| 29 | Hence , all investors will hold a proportion of their investment in the risky portfolio , M , and adjust their risk return combination by going either long or short in the risk-free asset ( in equilibrium there will be no net borrowing or lending for the market as a whole ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Did it strike you just before the accident that Harriet looked woozy or unsteady in the saddle ? ’ |