Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 2 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 3 | And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released … |
| 4 | She is an applied artist , producing witty and colourful furniture , screens and floor cloths : her raw material could be an unpromising kitchen chair , c1955 , with plastic leather seat and sturdy legs , or perhaps a chain-store chest of drawers of dubious design . |
| 5 | At first Cottle was asked to consider a new edition of Poems on Various Subjects , or a volume of Wordsworth 's poems , or perhaps a joint edition of Osorio and The Borderers . |
| 6 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 7 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 8 | Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern . |
| 9 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 10 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |
| 11 | The story is constructed in such a way that each group gets different information , or perhaps a different version of the same story . |
| 12 | This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets . |
| 13 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 14 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 15 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 16 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 17 | In these studies , in common with many others , it has not been possible to discover if the change was a primary defect or merely a secondary effect of the disease process . |
| 18 | Another important point to consider is whether or not a continuous supply of softened water is essential at tll times . |
| 19 | The most obvious application of the laws is in deciding whether or not a given pair of finite programs are equivalent . |
| 20 | The best reply we can give is : There is a test ( see exercise 1.11.11 ) due to Kronecker which will always tell in a finite number of steps ( which may easily be large enough to require a computer ) whether or not a given element of Q[x] is irreducible . |
| 21 | The subject 's task in Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 1 ) was to decide whether or not a given sequence of words formed a meaningful sentence . |
| 22 | Many ongoing difficult social circumstances , whether or not a direct result of the person 's approach to life , may also erupt at some point into major crises . |
| 23 | First , a wide definition of the public interest leads to policy implementation that is lacking in transparency : a firm and its advisers will be unable to judge whether or not a proposed course of conduct will be acceptable to the authorities . |
| 24 | Whether or not a particular type of clay crystal is allowed to build up depends , among other things , upon the rate and pattern of flow of the stream . |
| 25 | We have considered various analyses of the kind of criteria that enable individuals or groups to judge whether one theory is better than a rival , or whether or not a particular body of knowledge is scientific . |
| 26 | Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors . |
| 27 | The latter requirement holds no difficulty , rather it is the former requirement which gives rise to difficulties because on occasions odour problems are complex , the source of the odour being difficult to identify , and it is not always possible to know whether or not a particular method of abatement will effect a cure in any given case . |
| 28 | All items approved ( and the Government usually gets its way on everything ) must eventually find their way into an Appropriation Act , by which Parliament authorises expenditure and which its watchdog , the Comptroller and Auditor General , uses as his guide in determining whether or not a particular item of expenditure is warranted . |
| 29 | However , whether or not a statutory definition of charity is introduced the present problems must not be exaggerated . |
| 30 | The success rates for correctly representing the size of the pieces of furniture in the design were related to whether or not a whole number of squares represented a length ( Table 4.18 ) . |