Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson therefore knew in advance the principal social and economic demography of his readership — the professional and/or wealthy classes in and around London . |
| 2 | If you have a particular problem , please tell the tour escort or representative and/or the Hotel Reception Desk at the time so that , if possible , it can be dealt with there and then . |
| 3 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 4 | One important feature shared by most of the GCC states is an Iranian and/or Arab Shiite minority , whose behaviour in the event of some difference with Iran could not be predicted . |
| 5 | It allowed and encouraged these local authorities to extend provision of secondary education , after the minimum leaving age , either by giving rate support to voluntary grammar schools , or by establishing rate-financed grammar , technical and/or ‘ higher elementary ’ schools . |
| 6 | Of course , differential profitability may reflect differential exploitation of labour : in this case a left government could intervene to the advantage of enterprises which were less profitable because of less intensive and oppressive working and/or better wages by , for instance , minimum wage legislation or fostering union organisation in the more oppressive enterprises . |
| 7 | For it was assumed that the few who were rich and/or well-born were also , morally and politically , " the best " . |
| 8 | Some feminists would expand this argument to suggest that the political and/or ethical discussion should be made an explicit part of the methodology of philosophy . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | There are a number of classes of object made in England which can be shown to have regional and/or local distributions . |
| 11 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 12 | Some of these deposits are interpreted as having originated in areas of extensive hydrothermal activity that were remobilised during the Quaternary following local volcanic and/or earthquake activity . |
| 13 | This group included 12 patients who have previously been treated with oral antibiotics for various reasons , six patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease , six patients with associated inflammatory disease of the oesophagous and/or stomach and/or duodenum . |
| 14 | This does not imply , and should not be taken to mean , that everything being practised as multicultural and/or antiracist education in schools is worthless . |
| 15 | Deflationary and inflationary gaps can be closed by discretionary monetary and/or fiscal policy . |
| 16 | With the inability of stable monetary and/or fiscal policy to alter the real course of the economy , it is the determinants of the ‘ natural rates ’ that are the source of concern , and this is where the supply-siders would say they come in : by highlighting the way existing government policy provisions affect utility-maximizing choices , they concern themselves with the location of the various functions involved . |
| 17 | Having said that , have n't most people got DOS 5.0 and/or Windows these days so why the extra expense of yet another method of file management ? |
| 18 | Frequently , however , items that now have low and/or back vowels , are given with [ Ε ] : these include rether for ‘ rather ’ ( a rural Scots residue ) , e for a in single nasal environments in polysyllables such as exemine , Jenuary and in nasal cluster environments such as demsel , exemple , Entrim ( 'Antrim' ) , slent , bendy ( 'bandy' ) , brench . |
| 19 | ‘ I ent never seen cakes like that afore , ’ said George . |
| 20 | He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . |
| 21 | Empirical statements concerning spatial and/or temporal order e.g. that x is to the left of y , or above y , or that it precedes yin a time series , etc. — do not involve attribution of certain purely intrinsic properties to x or toy , i.e. properties that might be described as part of their essential description ( qua self-subsistent ontological entities ) . |
| 22 | Three of the studies pointed out that this was common in elderly patients , and that this indicated they should receive lower and/or less frequent doses . |
| 23 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 24 | We can thus substitute equation ( 1 ) into equation ( 2 ) and obtain For a chemical system which involves only solid and/or liquid reactants and products , the expansion V of the system is often negligible or zero . |
| 25 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 26 | But at least the radio-set enabled one to tune into a variety of propaganda : covert listening ( in the basement ) to the BBC or other radio stations of ‘ allied ’ or neutral powers , albeit punished when discovered , was a modest gesture of ‘ resistance ’ by individuals and families who only joined the ‘ Resistance ’ , if at all , in 1943 or 1944 . |
| 27 | Is it possible that in 1943 or 1944 she would have told him , liberated Parisienne that she was , the details ? |
| 28 | The total of members ' quotas in the IMF thus reached 93,177,050,000 or about US$129,122 million . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , Ruth , am I mega-dumb or something ? |
| 30 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |