Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all eyes — or rather all lenses — on her , Bardot soon put her emancipated amorality into practice . |
| 2 | In Schopenhauerian terms , this means that music becomes will , or rather that music , which can not be will , makes its appearance as will . |
| 3 | Okay , secondly and more importantly eight B the idea that syntactic and semantic structure are the same , or rather that semantics just works over the syntactic structure , erm that would help solve the acquisition problem . |
| 4 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 5 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 6 | Such a breach not only leaves the company ( or rather those individuals who act on its behalf ) open to criminal liability under the CSA 1985 and civil liability under the FSA 1986 , but also to a claim by a corporate client for breach of its obligation of confidence . |
| 7 | Since then , there 's also been erm , consultation as to whether that principle , or rather those extensions should be implied =plied to your other pensionable employee groups , i.e. teachers and firemen . |
| 8 | Or rather this morning . |
| 9 | Or perhaps all Australians were like that , took an uncommon interest in everyone 's affairs . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 11 | Perhaps Mr Robinson had learnt something from them , or perhaps that woman ( I can not call her a wife ) had told him everything . |
| 12 | There was quite a crowd at the bank of the loch and I wondered why they were all there , whether they were genuinely concerned about you or perhaps that death had some awful attraction for them . |
| 13 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 14 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 15 | So there is a recognition there that by the very nature of these erm proposals that they 're not going to be in accordance with one or perhaps more policies in the structure plan . |
| 16 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 17 | Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up . |
| 18 | Or perhaps some Falklands veteran crippled in mind and body while serving on Dysart 's ship . |
| 19 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 20 | Or perhaps some architects some of the time . |
| 21 | It is time to buy a fresh loaf , or perhaps some rolls or croissants this time ? |
| 22 | Or perhaps some plants will always be plants , part of the building blocks of creation . |
| 23 | Sometimes it is valuable to emphasise the impetus itself , particularly if a bravura pirouette is needed to display a dancer 's particular expertise or perhaps some exhibitionist trait in the character portrayed . |
| 24 | Or perhaps this programme is n't about Summerchild at all . |
| 25 | Or perhaps this time Cinderella will go to the ball . |
| 26 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 27 | Now a behavioural analysis , or perhaps another way of looking at this is a decision analysis , is quite interesting . |
| 28 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 29 | Ideally , if finance permitted , there would be a site visit , or perhaps several visits for every history topic . |
| 30 | Drama work in a historic setting need not involve a polished " performance " but rather a workshop situation where every pupil is encouraged to enter into the thoughts and the feelings of a historical character , or perhaps several characters in turn . |