Example sentences of "[art] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often held that this is the prerogative of governments , the economically or politically powerful , the leadership within the churches or simply those who can afford the means . |
| 2 | For the basic model of the individually or family-owned and managed enterprise , the patriarchal family autocracy , was increasingly irrelevant to the industries of the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 4 | Long-stay care in hospitals is provided for the physically or mentally frail elderly . |
| 5 | This year there are two different lists covering ( a ) recreational classes , run either privately or by institutes of further education and ( b ) specialised groups which is more helpful for those looking for classes for the physically or mentally handicapped , blind , deaf and elderly groups in hospitals , homes and other institutions . |
| 6 | In addition , the effects of overseas political and military expenditure were not exhausted by the more or less direct effects on the balance of payments but obviously also involved tying up substantial numbers of men in the armed forces and the supply industries . |
| 7 | If it can escape freely , then the eruption will not be violently explosive , since all explosions are the result of the more or less instantaneous expansion of large volumes of gas . |
| 8 | I shall not attempt to suggest readings in the literature on ‘ artificial intelligence ’ and of the more or less philosophical literature on the possibility of a ‘ thinking machine ’ . |
| 9 | However , the more or less honest businessman who decides to commit a fraud ‘ just this once ’ may become excited by the fun and challenge of it , as well as by the material pro fits . |
| 10 | The outcome of this is that the more or less intact skin of the prey animal is turned inside out , forming a tube with the fur on the inside and inner surface of the skin , stripped of all its flesh , on the outside . |
| 11 | Agbenugba 's novel is a more personal work , the more or less autobiographical story of a young Nigerian looking to make his fortune in the big , bad city . |
| 12 | The orang-utan became the more or less solitary animal it is today . |
| 13 | It is the quest to think of that peculiar essence of which its physical nature is the more or less full actualisation . |
| 14 | The income of the vicarage was an average £8 a year , and Carswalle 's successor , who presumably did not enjoy private means , got the more or less average assessment of £6 13s 4d . |
| 15 | The more or less complete independence of corporate managers from their shareholders enables managers to pursue goals other than those of profit-maximization in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 16 | Even poetry would not address such matters except in the more or less orthodox , more or less devotional form of Paradise Lost . |
| 17 | In addition to the more or less complex pathways mapped histologically , several simpler pathways have now been analysed by electrophysiological recording techniques . |
| 18 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 19 | The more or less genuinely ‘ creative ’ skill of producing the initial idea has to be balanced with the development skill of making it work . |
| 20 | Some years ago Radio Luxembourg carried out a series of presentations to agencies on the subject of ‘ visual transfer ’ — a term used in the USA for the more or less observable fact that most of the TV audience recognize TV commercials from their soundtracks , and that , therefore , using the TV soundtrack , or something close to it , on radio can greatly enhance the coverage and frequency of a TV campaign . |
| 21 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 22 | The phenomena of LTP can be studied at many levels from the more or less intact organism to the tissue slice . |
| 23 | It was now no longer sufficient to accept it as the more or less automatic result of the existence of a number of completely sovereign States bound together by geographical contiguity . |
| 24 | In the 1920s and 1930s some Marxists — and particularly those who adhered to Bolshevik views — conceived fascism as the more or less inevitable form assumed by the rule of the bourgeoisie in the monopolistic phase of capitalist development , and at the same time underestimated the strength of the fascist movements . |
| 25 | Thirdly , there is a close and continuous relation between the work of political scientists and the more or less routine conduct of government and administration . |
| 26 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 27 | Yet there are unlikely to be many governors or bodies of parents who would disapprove of the more or less traditional approach of putting class teachers first , and there would be few who would persist in wanting the headteacher 's draft management plan — his or her daily manner of organizing and managing the school — to be changed as the result of open and equal argument between staff of all categories . |
| 28 | Internally , these organizations are similar in many respects to the more or less bureaucratic corporations , military institutions and government agencies found in the West , not least in their dysfunctions of petty officialdom ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , pp. 123–4 ) . |
| 29 | Geographically the North American prairies , the South American pampas , the steppes of south Russia or of Hungary were quite comparable : great plains in the more or less temperate zone , suited to the large-scale cultivation of cereals . |
| 30 | They are luckier than , say , Merseyside , which can mobilise in defence of the equally or more hard-hit local interest only the memory of the Beatles , of generations of Scouse comedians and the proud tradition of its rival football teams , while taking care to keep away from anything that reminds its inhabitants too obviously of the divisive colours Orange and Green . |