Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 2 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 3 | But other writers or perhaps even the same writers in other contexts , were concerned with institutional differences , varieties of law , of systems of government , of property relations , of forms of the family . |
| 4 | The changes brought about by electronically based information technology are so fundamental that , for the historian at least , they must be equated with the invention and spread of printing or perhaps even the initial development of the written record . |
| 5 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 6 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 7 | I think that 's more or less still the same . |
| 8 | But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances . |
| 9 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 10 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 11 | First of all , we are virtually deprived of the Seleucid , or more generally the Hellenic , version of the events in Judaea . |
| 12 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 13 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 14 | The dialectic of the modern capitalist , or more precisely the modern mixed , economy , all but exclusively involves the role of government . |
| 15 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 16 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
| 17 | The Common Market , or more accurately the European Economic Community ( EEC ) — later called the European Community ( EC ) — was legally established on 25 March 1957 with the signing of a treaty between the governments of France , Western Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxemburg . |
| 18 | ( In children 's addresses the minister has the last word or more often The Correct Answer . ) |
| 19 | Where do we find such funds to put the case of the moderate teachers in the classrooms who have to ‘ occupy ’ and not teach a large proportion of the class for hours on end whilst they test the few — or sometimes even the one child . |
| 20 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 21 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 22 | What is surprising , however , is that such stories are told using the same , or very nearly the same , language . |
| 23 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |
| 24 | Native enzyme seems also to protect albeit only partially the minor grooves located at -50 , -60 , -70 and probably up to -80 , suggesting that DNA can wrap partially around the enzyme and establish some non-specific contacts in the conditions reported here . |
| 25 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 26 | The main problem is that so far the central battle seems unevenly pitched . |
| 27 | Heat from stronger lighting could be a problem , but it seems that so far the normal air conditioning has been able to cope and no abnormal discomfort has been experienced . |
| 28 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 29 | ‘ Instead it can , for example , be based on the argument that any particular agent 's capacity to absorb information is finite , and that broadly therefore the smaller the unit to be controlled the greater the likelihood of competence sufficient to make the necessary judgement . |
| 30 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |