Example sentences of "[coord] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a |
| 2 | After the 1987 election there was speculation that Britain had moved into an era of one-party politics or a predominantly one-party system . |
| 3 | The latest musical Manson statement , however , is not a three-minute thrash song or a badly recorded ‘ smuggled ’ prison tape from the man himself , currently locked up in San Quentin , but a full-blown opera entitled The Manson Family by New York composer John Moran . |
| 4 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 5 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 6 | There may exist either a formal , highly structured process of search or a loosely structured ‘ think-tank ’ approach . |
| 7 | ‘ Or a most unnatural oddness , depending on how you look at it . |
| 8 | It involves a constant holding-back or a holding-together of the self , and uses enormous energy , as if letting go would be desperately dangerous . |
| 9 | Was there milk enough or a little too much in his tea ? |
| 10 | Hibernation lasts for between four and five months , from October until March or a little later in the north of Britain . |
| 11 | Stir in the onion , add the salt and pepper or a little more lemon juice if required . |
| 12 | If you are feeling a little hungry , or a little unhappy ( perhaps you have not lost as much weight as you thought you should ) , then you are susceptible . |
| 13 | The election result has made fund managers ‘ much more confident ’ about the outlook for the equity market : all but a handful believe the economic situation will ‘ get a lot or a little better ’ over the next year . |
| 14 | An offset coupling is sometimes needed : these are simply turned to achieve the desired effect of connecting higher , lower or a little to one side — particularly important with a standard washdown assembly , where the flush pipe should be kept straight . |
| 15 | Just for your lifetime , or a little less , there is a natural gas bonanza for Britain . |
| 16 | At San Antonio , soil analyses point to Maya cultivators being active there around 670 BC or a little earlier . |
| 17 | Buying time , whether a lot or a little , during an attack is always worth doing . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's fussy in that he wants it right , but he does n't mind if a guitar 's action is a little higher or a little lower ; he can basically play anything . ’ |
| 19 | With the deradicalising of students in the Reagan years , Sarris 's criticisms seem less relevant , and the film is less dated now than those made at the same time or a little later that did reflect the Counter Culture , such as Alice 's Restaurant , The Strawberry Statement , Getting Straight and Zabriskie Point . |
| 20 | As in any jet , thrust controls speed and elevator maintains glide angle on a continuous curving base leg to a four-mile final at a thousand feet or a little below . |
| 21 | for salt , or a little more |
| 22 | That must have been about eight o'clock or a little earlier . |
| 23 | Trench and ridge will occupy about a yard or a little more at this stage ; you will judge the length . |
| 24 | If they came from a garden centre , take the container off each root-ball , cut any long , coiled-round roots off level with the soil-ball , and plant without otherwise disturbing in a hole sufficiently deep to ensure that the surface of the soil-ball is level with or a little below that of the surrounding soil . |
| 25 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I know , ’ said David cheerfully teasing her , ‘ you think a church should be like an English Gothic cathedral or a little whitewashed village church with moth-eaten Peninsular War banners fluttering from dry-rotted lances . ’ |
| 27 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 28 | In 1381 or a little earlier he was appointed one of the group of ‘ chamber knights ’ , who were the most trusted executants of the royal will . |
| 29 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 30 | Thirty or a little over if he was a day , and projecting all the self-assurance of years well used ! |