Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that means he was in a house or somewhere of human usage . |
| 2 | Articles made largely or wholly of gold , silver or other precious metals . |
| 3 | This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan . |
| 4 | The White Paper called for a fundamental re-examination of penal methods ‘ based on studies of the causes of crime , or rather of the factors which foster or inhibit crime ’ , supported by reliable assessments of the results achieved by existing methods . |
| 5 | What the examiner is evidently after is the correct interpretation of the words of the Act of Settlement , or rather of the Act now in force replacing the Act of Settlement . |
| 6 | As a result of his findings ( or rather of those of his wife who accompanied him , since Banfield himself did not speak any Italian ) , Banfield derived the following as his explanation . |
| 7 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The ‘ authoritarian populism ’ of the 1980s , the corporatism of the 1960s and 1970s or presumably of some other form of nationalism in the 1990s are simultaneously a product of both capitalist social relations and the instinctive support which people , especially those least certain of their and their family 's future , give to parliaments and their leaders . |
| 9 | Membership is open to any company that designs , manufactures , sells or supports generally-available products conforming to layer 3 or below of the Open Systems Interconnection model , such as bridges , routers , hubs or adaptor boards . |
| 10 | The choices he made , and the way his achievements oscillated , show a decided lack of conviction , or perhaps of direction , in his thinking . |
| 11 | They will either complain of nothing at all or perhaps of vulval soreness and a nasty discharge in that area . |
| 12 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 13 | And , lying somewhere between these two extremes , you will find almost every shade of belief — or perhaps of hope . |
| 14 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 15 | Dining at ease inside a dragon makes a good symbol of the harnessing of mighty powers of nature for man 's comfort , or perhaps of pride coming before a fall . |
| 16 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 17 | Ron 's talk will consist mainly or entirely of cine film . |
| 18 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 19 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 20 | The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen . |
| 21 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 22 | Moreover , the saving and borrowing members of a society stand to make much bigger gains in the case of takeover than the £150 or so of free shares offered in the Abbey flotation . |
| 23 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |
| 24 | After two miles or so of this beautiful scenery we emerged at the top of the gorge into sunlight again and were greeted by a wonderful expanse of forest . |
| 25 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 26 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 27 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 28 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 29 | Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that . |
| 30 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |