Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that means he was in a house or somewhere of human usage . |
| 2 | They had an ‘ Eric , or Little by Little schoolboy sense of honour ’ and were ‘ completely straight ’ . |
| 3 | She had invited Betty to stay by accident , or rather by drunken mischance , at one of those fatal office parties . |
| 4 | any activity reserved to solicitors ( whether solely or together with other persons ) by the Solicitors Act 1974 or any other statute ; or |
| 5 | Three-quarters of all activities were ones carried out by the husband or wife alone or together with other members of the household . |
| 6 | We must ask how attractive that ideal really is , how well the conception serves it , and whether it can be served as well or better through other conceptions of law . |
| 7 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 8 | Whether it came through prophecy , or perhaps through private prayer , we do not know . |
| 9 | Perhaps because of its futuristic design or perhaps through slow fund-raising , the bridge took many years to complete and was not opened until 1823 which must , to say the least , have been highly inconvenient . |
| 10 | They will either complain of nothing at all or perhaps of vulval soreness and a nasty discharge in that area . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 12 | Its main potential would seem to lie in its use by individuals working alone or perhaps in small groups , and this requires a very different approach to materials design . |
| 13 | The disposal process can be drawn out ( six to nine months is quite possible ) and it is desirable to seek a further part payment , normally on heads of agreement or perhaps by monthly instalment before final settlement on completion . |
| 14 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 15 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 16 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 17 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 18 | Doubtful tuning here and there is also a reservation to be found in Nilsson 's Four Last Songs , recorded in 1970 when the Swedish soprano was more or less in pristine form . |
| 19 | Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles . |
| 20 | They regarded him as something more or less from outer space , and it was a long time before he and his family felt themselves to be part of the community . |
| 21 | The notion that this is attributable to having a former royal servant , Reynolds , as archbishop instead of an authoritarian idealist like Winchelsey is to overvalue the role of individuals , of Winchelsey in particular ; for all his principled vigour , Winchelsey had failed to ensure long-term security for the clergy , or much beyond transient relief even during his own pontificate . |
| 22 | Well I went in a choir , I could never sing , and I still ca n't , and er the choir used to go out quite a lot , and er we cycled and we youth-hostelled , even as w or in on working parties , at some of the peak hostels . |
| 23 | The system can rely entirely on coaxial cable , or entirely on optical fibre , just as a tree and branch network can be based on either technology . |
| 24 | Case studies have been updated and will be sent to participants within the next week or so with other Conference papers . |
| 25 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 26 | Maintenance labour cost vary somewhat around NZ , just as they do here , but against the UK 's average hourly £15 to £25 or so for single-engine aircraft , NZ engineers seem to charge the equivalent of £12 to £15 on average . |
| 27 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 28 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 29 | Their beautiful home on Belmont Avenue was ‘ open house ’ to a score or so of young friends on Saturday evenings , when Lawren and Bess entertained with concerts of symphonic recordings , serving coffee and biscuits . |
| 30 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |