Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that male birds with more complicated repertoires can intimidate rivals more successfully and/or attract mates more readily . |
| 2 | Inevitably that produces omissions , and may lead the interpreter to stop altogether or to ask the speaker to slow down . |
| 3 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 4 | If you know you will be with people in the evening too , it would be ideal to have the afternoon away from people altogether or to postpone the evening appointment . |
| 5 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 6 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 7 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 8 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 9 | No one hunted man-eating tigers more assiduously and successfully or knew more about them than Corbett . |
| 10 | A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing . |
| 11 | Such instructions may be communicated verbally or written . |
| 12 | The poor , however , are often blamed for their own poverty , accused of budgeting badly or living beyond their means . |
| 13 | Similar findings were observed with prostacyclin either applied locally or given systemically in the coronary artery of dog ( Aiken et al , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | It 's a great place for families , who either potter locally or sail together on day trips away . |
| 15 | If you feel you have been harassed or discriminated against in any way , you can raise the matter locally or use the network of Harassment Advisers who can offer support and guidance . |
| 16 | ‘ Curse this arm , ’ he said , ‘ I ca n't hold you properly or make love to you . |
| 17 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 18 | I pushed him round that time as a baby of three that could not walk properly or talk clearly and had never sung . |
| 19 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 20 | One of the criticisms levelled at the board has been that it fails to consult properly or listen to objections to proposals . |
| 21 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 22 | The fact that we come from a capitalist country means that some topics tend to be dealt with delicately or avoided , but that is all . |
| 23 | Under the 1988 Act , such a statement may disapply or modify the application of any or all of the provisions of the National Curriculum for the pupils for whom the statement is made . |
| 24 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 25 | Some early skinheads went awry & wore tie-dyed granddad vests . |
| 26 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 27 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 28 | This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away . |
| 29 | As far as computer equipment ( hardware ) is concerned , this may be purchased outright or hired . |
| 30 | Tiles can be pushed right or left , but not up or down — should they be pushed into mid air , gravity takes affect and they fall . |