Example sentences of "or [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The certificate must be signed by the transferor ( which it will be if included in the conveyance/transfer ) or by his solicitors or duly authorised agent . |
| 2 | At the other extreme , communication can be sophisticated and technologically advanced satellite transmissions or digitally encoded computer signals ; these are tools of mass communication . |
| 3 | On 4 October 1748 she wrote to Richardson to argue against his proposed alterations to Sarah Fielding 's The Governess , or Little Female Academy . |
| 4 | Venture capitalists provide equity and other types of long term funds to unlisted companies which have no or little past performance record . |
| 5 | However , if you left a child under 12 ( England and Wales ) or under seven ( Scotland ) in your home with an unguarded or inadequately guarded fire and they were injured as a result , you would be legally responsible . |
| 6 | Trailing cords from televisions or projectors , loose mats or badly fitting floor-covering can be hazardous , especially if lighting is poor . |
| 7 | The arrowed direction keys ( respectively Left , Right , Up and Down ) move the cursor respectively left or right one character space , up or down one line . |
| 8 | The use of these parameters in this type of study confirms the left hemisphere or right visual field advantage ( RVFA ) for verbal materials and the right hemisphere or left visual field advantage ( LVFA ) for visual materials ( Cohen , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | Stereoscopic depth perception was studied by Durnford and Kimura ( 1971 ) by asking subjects to judge whether two rods , one presented at the point of fixation and one presented in the left or right visual field , were horizontally aligned . |
| 10 | Cohen ( 1972 ) presented the Posner task to the left or right visual field and found a RVF superiority for NI matches and a LVF superiority for PI matches , as did Geffen , Bradshaw and Nettleton ( 1972 ) . |
| 11 | These workers presented letter strings to the left or right visual field for different durations . |
| 12 | These stimuli comprised of verbal ( trigram ) and spatial ( dot location ) tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject while s/he shadowed auditory verbal stimuli . |
| 13 | These stimuli comprised of verbal and spatial tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject . |
| 14 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 15 | ‘ I use the most simple or most complex equipment available — frankly , I think cameras are boring — they 're like a gun , if it shoots O.K. it does n't matter what it is as long as it can do its job . |
| 16 | From these answers we can see that a horse 's temperament may touch on all these statements , or their opposites , and that the horse 's temperament is demonstrated by its general or most consistent mood and natural disposition . |
| 17 | It is worthy of note at this point that the decision as to what is the correct or most similar remedy for a patient is not necessarily simple or straightforward . |
| 18 | Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers ' discussions about arterial accessibility . |
| 19 | The task analysis will take the form of a consideration of the most likely or most dangerous failure and combinations of failures and the ways in which these will appear as indications in the control room . |
| 20 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 21 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 22 | If judgment is obtained in this country against someone in France ( or most other Community states ) , that judgment can be enforced in the country in question by virtue of the Brussels Convention ( on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments ) 1968 . |
| 23 | So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee ( at a wholly extortionate price ) I was able to thaw my limbs , re-line my stomach , rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation . |
| 24 | Because the map coordinates of the locations of the car and the service unit are represented digitally , the shortest or most convenient route between the two points can be worked out automatically . |
| 25 | Conventionally , those patterns whose left-hand or most significant bit position contains a zero represent positive values , and those where it contains a one represent negative values . |
| 26 | These two values are represented in fixed-point binary format , the exponent as an integer and the fraction with the binary point to the left of its left-hand or most significant bit ( although , as we shall see , the latter convention is not invariable ) . |
| 27 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 28 | This is a big topic which I do not intend to tackle here , but in my experience groups of like ability do not produce the best or most imaginative work . |
| 29 | IT MIGHT not be Ireland 's biggest or most lucrative export but thousands of shamrocks , carefully sealed in air-tight bags immediately after being picked , have been flown from the Emerald Isle to the Irish in Britain in time for St Patrick 's Day celebrations today . |
| 30 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |