Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 2 | A proportion of the farm — or for that matter all of it — is set aside , left fallow , mown once a year while the farmer draws a set fee per acre and manages on the rest or gets another job . |
| 3 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 4 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 5 | It will lack an expectation of success when in conflict with other horses , or for that matter people , and will give way to the aggression or assertiveness of other horses . |
| 6 | An image of God as a person like ourselves — for instance an old man on a cloud , or for that matter a young man from Nazareth — can , therefore , be deeply misleading . |
| 7 | Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well . |
| 8 | What was he thinking now , or for that matter the parents of any youngsters in the vicinity ? |
| 9 | To believe the brochures , or for that matter the cover of the South American Handbook with its exotic bright orange cock of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ) , is to be disappointed . |
| 10 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 11 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 12 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 13 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
| 14 | The English , or for that matter , people anywhere , have not got a monopoly on stupidity and evil intent . |
| 15 | Pay no attention to all the stories of mean Scots , or for that matter , mean Jews . |
| 16 | He had never brought my parents joy or pride , as Carl , or for that matter ( to varying degree ) my other brothers . |
| 17 | The feet being wide apart means that he can not move his feet properly to the short , or for that matter the full-length , delivery . |
| 18 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 19 | It is worth pointing out however that there is n't really much difference in speed ( or for that matter in fuel consumption ) between the 1.8 and the 2.0-litre . |
| 20 | So , first doublecheck that there 's nothing you are doing or using the amp with or for that could be causing the fault . |
| 21 | They all share the requirement for ‘ sleeving ’ at line ends , or for that matter over any joint in the line . |
| 22 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 23 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 24 | To go back to ‘ Beowulf : the Monsters and the Critics ’ : if this makes one thing clear it is that the literary quality Tolkien valued above all was the ‘ impression of depth … effect of antiquity … illusion of historical truth and perspective ’ which he found in Beowulf , in the Aeneid , or for that matter in Macbeth , Sir Orfeo , or the Grimms ' Fairy Tales . |
| 25 | Before or after the theatre or for that very special occasion . |
| 26 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 27 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 28 | The consequences for the peace movement — or for that matter any political movement — are thus equally complex : general theories about the role of the law , or the state will often be misleading . |
| 29 | It is evident that the people engaged in fighting wars — or for that matter , any kind of fighting — are by no means necessarily aggressive , either in the course of action or beforehand . |
| 30 | A prime requirement , whether you are thinking of paid or unpaid work , or for that matter simply planning to devote more time to your hobbies , is to remain fit and healthy . |