Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 2 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
| 3 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 4 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 5 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 6 | In windy weather , the effects of the wind gradient near the ground accentuate any movement up or down of the towplane and glider . |
| 7 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |
| 8 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 9 | These temperatures are consistent with the apparent rigidity of the outer 200 km or so of the Moon and with the strong attenuation of S waves beyond about 800 km , and with the large area to mass ratio of the Moon . |
| 10 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 11 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 12 | The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis . |
| 13 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 14 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 15 | The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained . |
| 16 | pictures or shopping or round the market or just for a walk or for a meal . |
| 17 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 18 | Remember to stretch while the muscles are still warm from working or directly after a bath and hold each position statically for at least 15 seconds . |
| 19 | Investment business While a summary of the Solicitors ' Investment Business Rules 1990 may be found in Chapter 12 , it is appropriate at this point to note that every firm which carries on investment business within the meaning of the Financial Services Act 1986 is required to be authorised either through a Self-Regulating Organisation ( SRO ) such as FIMBRA or through a Recognised Professional Body ( RPB ) or directly from the Securities and Investments Board . |
| 20 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 21 | Under section 518 of the Companies Act 1985 if you are owed £750 or more by a company and it is overdue you can serve that company with a notice requesting payment within 21 days . |
| 22 | Bred by Exhibitor For dogs who are not champions , and are owned wholly or partly by the breeder and shown by him or his family . |
| 23 | It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution . |
| 24 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 25 | By the eighteenth century foreign offices , departments of state concerned simply or mainly with the making and execution of foreign policy , could be seen in embryo in many parts of Europe . |
| 26 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 27 | On a number of later occasions — in 1749 , 1753 , 1771–74 and 1788 — the device of exiling the Parlement to a provincial town was resorted to ; but every one of these struggles was ended by concessions made solely or mainly by the king and his ministers . |
| 28 | It was not allowed to stand , merely to percolate through the roots , and channels-were dug to conduct the water away into another meadow or back into the stream or river . |
| 29 | After all , there were only two ways that Harry could come on to Grace , the gangplank across from Maurice , on which Stripey lay digesting uneasily , or back to the wharf and round by the afterdeck . |
| 30 | Not all video machines have this property but it is becoming more and more common to be able to see the picture as you run forward or back on the tape or disc . |