Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having found their way into museums and institutions around the world they were usually identified as Inca or most often Chimó . |
| 2 | A tight-fitting cover or better still cling film will help reduce the deaths because cold draughts seem to be partly to blame . |
| 3 | Maria stared at him standing there , discovering that he looked slightly drawn , while there was a hotness to his eyes now , as if fever or perhaps simply fatigue afflicted him . |
| 4 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 5 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 6 | If theories are ever put to the test and proved right , then the theories disappear and they are replaced by facts , or perhaps even laws . |
| 7 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 8 | Yet we go on and on , driven by some creative demon , or perhaps even vanity , but the cost may be high . |
| 9 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 10 | Sprat sandals , tuna trainers , cod court shoes pilchard pumps or perhaps even bream brogues . |
| 11 | And if they recommend that , that may mean a little bit of trip , down to either Nottingham or perhaps even Derby , |
| 12 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 13 | Would you make any conscious decision to move slightly down market or less up market ? |
| 14 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 15 | After five minutes or so both Rick and I were properly awake and using his scoop technique ( which incidentally had n't been quite perfected ) my first catfish was on the bank . |
| 16 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 17 | A month or so later Anna 's mother got a kitten , a grey tabby tom kitten , who was very affectionate from the start , sat on her lap , purred loudly when stroked and snuggled up in her arms , though Anna was sure her mother had not stopped having baths or using perfume . |
| 18 | An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor . |
| 19 | A minute or so later Flavia said , ‘ Time for me to go . ’ |
| 20 | A year or so earlier George Younger stepped aside for Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home , who had renounced his peerage . |
| 21 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 22 | Like a lot of old slang words from you know like a hun fifty or so back years ago are now proper words now . |
| 23 | It is believed that they migrated to central Italy from Asia Minor or possibly further east in the eighth century B.C. ; remaining dominant and independent until the third century B.C. after which they were gradually Latinised under Roman rule . |
| 24 | I do n't think they 're Swedish , more like from Brighton ( Whatever you call people from there ? ) , or more exactly Burgess Hill , and it seems what 's happening down there is very interesting , or so my sources lead me to believe : - ) . |
| 25 | The majority of finds consist of objects , or more frequently fragments of objects , that have been lost , thrown away or deliberately buried . |
| 26 | If we revert to the original problem , the solution of Ax = x , we now see that there are just n eigenvalues s and that correspondingly there are just n vectors xs ; i.e. we have n equations unc We can combine them all into the single equation unc or more briefly AX = X where X is ow the square matrix made up of the n column vectors xs , and unc is the diagonal matrix of the eigenvalues ; and our problem is now to find the matrices X and unc for the given A. |
| 27 | This should not lead us in turn , however , to ignore the impact of industrialisation or more generally proletarianisation on sexual mores . |
| 28 | ‘ Although only heaven or more probably hell knows why I must , ’ he murmured unevenly , apparently as an addendum to the words that had been dragged from him just before he kissed her . |
| 29 | St Pancras was the undisputed King , or more properly Queen-Empress , of stations . |
| 30 | Considerable emphasis was placed on the idea of separate ‘ cultures ’ ( or more properly sub-cultures ) of poverty as a way of explaining the persistence of deprivation in societies which in principle were egalitarian and which certainly had seen massive increases in total welfare . |