Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What justifies the assumption that two qualitatively identical things can occupy simultaneously two different places , or numerically the same place in succession ? |
| 2 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 3 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 4 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 5 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 6 | To counteract this , an individual generally benefits from continual changes in the type of task being performed as well as continual updating on how well or badly the task is being done . |
| 7 | According to Cochrane et al. ( 1985 ) , the land-use practised depends mainly on how well or badly the savannas are drained . |
| 8 | The Labour group , currently with 25 seats compared to the Tories ' 57 , believes it needs another 25 to gain control — depending on how well or badly the Liberal Democrats fare . |
| 9 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 10 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |
| 11 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 12 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 13 | A typical present might be a bomb , or rather a hand-grenade alarm clock . |
| 14 | In some cases , where the family is prepared to take special care of their loved ones , I would happily agree to a patient , or rather a writer , going home . |
| 15 | I 'm a woman , or rather a girl , and not clever . |
| 16 | The weekend had been a failure — or rather a success . |
| 17 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 18 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 19 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 20 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 21 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 22 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 23 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 24 | Johnson , however , devotes one mere paragraph to a description — or rather a non-description — of their visit . |
| 25 | We seem to be seeing , in the fossils , an arms race , or rather a series of restarting arms races , between carnivores and herbivores . |
| 26 | We know , for instance , that a Social Class V woman ( or rather a woman married to a Social Class V man ) has less of a chance of having a healthy child who will reach adulthood than a woman who is married to a man in Social Class I. |
| 27 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 28 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 29 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 30 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |