Example sentences of "[conj] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over half the species of toothed whales are dolphins or the closely related porpoises . |
| 2 | You also have a choice of two processors — the Intel 25 MHz 486SX or the slightly racier 33MHz model . |
| 3 | If you stick to vegetable sauces , or the slightly richer seafood sauces ( sans cheese and cream ) , you should be OK . |
| 4 | Hitting the water in a blast of spray , she drove herself as far under as she could , trying not to gasp at either the impact of her mistimed dive or the surprisingly low temperature of the water . |
| 5 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 6 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 7 | That too is what Charles Ryder does in Waugh 's Brideshead , more or less , or Guy Crouchback in Sword of Honour ; or Amis 's Lucky Jim ; or the savagely dishonoured hero of Golding 's Tarpaulin trilogy . |
| 8 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 9 | This pruning technique works just as well for the flowering shrubs such as philadelphus , or the tastefully variegated Weigela florida ‘ Variegata ’ , but you cut back after flowering in early summer rather than in March . |
| 10 | They are patterns of information that can thrive only in brains or the artificially manufactured products of brains — books , computers , and so on . |
| 11 | Mill 's famous ‘ proof is unpersuasive , as all such proofs must be , given either the infinite regress of supposed justifications higher than the ultimate justification or the viciously circular proposition that the ultimate justification is , illogically , its own justification . |
| 12 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 13 | But it is less easy to take a vanishing oboe at a critical stage of the first movement development or the generally under-nourished and acoustically ill-focused playing of the second violins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The authority of medicine finally ousted Artemidorus 's invocations of antiquity or the increasingly muted references to the supernatural by the clergy , in explaining life 's ordinary ecstasies and tribulations . |
| 16 | Microscopic Eriophyes mites cause many of the leaf galls , such as the tiny green pustules on elm leaves , caused by E. campestricola , or the equally tiny red warts on sycamore leaves , caused by E macrorhynchus . |
| 17 | No matter — Motian 's small groups have been ‘ led ’ by Frisell 's electric guitar since the 1980s and in practice , Evans 's complex Walkin' up , or the equally complex interplay of instruments and tempi in Five do more than simply survive with either guitar or saxophone ( or both ) leading . |
| 18 | Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles . |
| 19 | Instead , it relies on coupling two C units , both of which are cheaply available from very convenient sources such as natural gas , coal or the otherwise useless ‘ heavy ends ’ of crude oil . |
| 20 | It is not necessarily the best books that do that , or the most famous . |
| 21 | You could tell where the best-known pros or the most famous celebrities were by the larger galleries following them . |
| 22 | A CYNICAL credibility-boosting exercise , or the most inspired coupling since Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe ? |
| 23 | The best , or the most packed defences in the world , ca n't do a thing about a perfectly-struck drive . |
| 24 | They speak of having ‘ boldness ’ , or the most intimate inner assurance , in their expressions of faith and worship . |
| 25 | British women are the most adulterous ( or the most honest ) in Europe — but British men are said to make love the least frequently . |
| 26 | Then , along comes practolol , or the most recent disaster , Opren — which has led the New Scientist , among others , to urge that the checks on new drugs should be made even tougher . |
| 27 | First , each mare is encircled , or nearly encircled by tall mountain ranges that could be the remnants of the rim of a large impact basin or the most prominent rim of a multi-ringed basin . |
| 28 | Try to give pride of place to one prized item : maybe the most valuable , or the most spectacular , perhaps the very first of your collection , or the one that was special gift or heirloom . |
| 29 | Even the most hardened skinflint or the most radical social thinker would have to admit that , in general , charity is a ‘ good thing ’ . |
| 30 | He could be a good friend or the most dangerous of enemies . |