Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since you are Derek 's friends — or rather since you do n't care very much for his health and welfare I will not call you his friends but surely I ought to know your name ! ’ |
| 2 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology , or rather because it does n't require image decompression , 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 seconds , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 3 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology or rather because it does n't require image decompression 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 second , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 4 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 5 | Either that , or perhaps that she had n't asked very many pointed questions . |
| 6 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 7 | Which is more or less where we came in ! |
| 8 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 9 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 10 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 11 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 12 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 13 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 15 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 16 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 17 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 18 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 19 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 20 | Tickets can be booked by telephone on ( 0723 ) 370541 — or ( 0723 ) 378863 for Access and Visa bookings — by post , or personally if you call in at the theatre , and must be paid for within three days of booking . |
| 21 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 22 | Clough , in fact , will become the 13th player Souness has purchased for £1m or more since he took over at Rangers in April 1986 . |
| 23 | If people go to bed and are in bed for a week or more and we do all of that , all that stroking and loving , then when they actually go there 's a relief at them no longer having the pain and the shock . ’ |
| 24 | A bankruptcy petition can be issued against anyone who has a judgement debt registered against them of £750 or more and who has neither paid that debt nor satisfied the court that there is a valid counterclaim . |
| 25 | He is a Whip who receives about £35,000 a year or more and he does not have to worry about the daily necessities of life . |
| 26 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 27 | To start with , it 's not at all clear these days what people mean by it , or even whether it exists any longer . |
| 28 | ‘ Or even if they had n't been well paid , ’ added Tealtaoich . |
| 29 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 30 | And if we overstep the mark — or even if we do n't — we offer the manufacturer the right to reply — letting you , the reader , judge . |