Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 You 'll be travelling in a traditional 65 foot long Greek style caique which accommodates a party of 32 or a 105 foot long motor cruiser which carries 48 people — both with twin engines .
2 Fifty or a hundred quid a lorry depending on the load . ’
3 And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better .
4 There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows .
5 rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ?
6 People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different .
7 And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time .
8 All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias .
9 So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future .
10 They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support .
11 If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back .
12 Are they approval seeking , supportive or a put down ( as in ‘ you 're not really going to wear that , are you ?
13 We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives .
14 R 2 denotes RR which is a 180° turn and R 3 denotes RRR , also written R — 1 or R ′ , denoting a 270° turn clockwise or a 90° turn anticlockwise .
15 The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way .
16 It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity .
17 Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale .
18 It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension .
19 In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] .
20 ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or
21 Instead of seeking to contain royal power they were preoccupied with gaining the favour of the Grand Prince , or control of the government when the monarch was personally weak or a minor .
22 In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged .
23 Picks : either a Tortex 74 or a Clayton 74–77 .
24 You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health .
25 The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion .
26 The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution .
27 I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket .
28 Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again .
29 An offset coupling is sometimes needed : these are simply turned to achieve the desired effect of connecting higher , lower or a little to one side — particularly important with a standard washdown assembly , where the flush pipe should be kept straight .
30 With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour .
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