Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 2 | Barth introduces seven correspondents , or rather reintroduces them since they are all figures from his earlier works , and Barth himself is projected into the fiction as an updated form of ‘ Mr. B. ’ , Pamela 's seducer in Richardson 's novel . |
| 3 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 4 | All products from the jungle are shared equally among members of the large house , while garden products and artifacts are privately owned by the individuals whose labour produces them ( or literally creates them ; see below ) . |
| 5 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 6 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 7 | And it more or less does itself . |
| 8 | A science founds itself , Canguilhem suggests , on its method : ‘ When it became apparent that every science more or less gives itself its given , and thereby appropriates what is called its domain , the concept of a science began to place more emphasis on method than on object ’ ( 1980 : 38 ) . |
| 9 | The two dozen or so airframes which were completed were simply test- flown and put into storage , awaiting buyers who never came . |
| 10 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 11 | Extending the term by five years or so means you have to pay out less each month . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the Convention may be silent both as to the substance of a particular issue and as to the law by which it is to be determined , in which case it is a question of construction whether the Convention covers the point or merely leaves it to be dealt with under the law applicable under the conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 13 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 14 | Whereas if the teacher just does n't mark it , just gives a comment , or just ticks it , I tend to get lazy . |
| 15 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 16 | There are no stars , no-one grabs the spotlight or slyly edges anyone else out of fame 's way , they all support each other . |
| 17 | Do n't assume that the reader already understands your argument or automatically shares your viewpoint . |
| 18 | The destruction or disposition of the record will follow the retention decisions made at its creation unless a change of purpose either changes or temporarily suspends its enactment . |
| 19 | In the process of examining how routine policing is affected by social divisions , researchers may , however , obtain some direct and first-hand impression of public order policing , if only unsatisfactorily as it briefly or infrequently enters their research location . |
| 20 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 21 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 22 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 23 | Why I do n't know , whether it 's because street lighting is less , or geographically lends itself . |
| 24 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 25 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 26 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 27 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 28 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 29 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 30 | It treats it as a specific object of investigation , or else ignores it . |