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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Come on , Ruth , am I mega-dumb or something ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 24 | We do not yet know whether such differences are inherent or are induced by disease or even by the drugs themselves , or what part is played by age . |
| 25 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 26 | Each new kind of medium is likely to have its own built in obsolescence whether deficiencies these are inherent or merely the result of replacement by newer and more efficient technologies . |
| 27 | Somebody , therefore , has to lead the singing , either unaccompanied or to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded tape , and training is needed for this as well . |
| 28 | A good caddie also has to be something of a psychologist , knowing when to cajole his player into making a better effort ; calming him down when he 's just three-putted or blazed a drive into the rough ; or steadying him up from being over-confident or over-zealous when the adrenalin is flowing after a couple of good holes . |
| 29 | But everyone knew , even then , about unsatisfied or sublimated or postponed desires : the final step must be action . |
| 30 | This assay has been proved to provide reliable whole blood and serum concentrations that correlate well with monoclonal or polyclonal radioimmunoassay measurements carried out in renal transplant recipients . |