Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage .
2 I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy .
3 There may be very little transactional business enacted , or effectively none at all ( see Aston 1986 ) .
4 2.24 This type of person can be compared with a younger man in a less promising position , or perhaps someone in a hazardous occupation such as a steel erector or a steeplejack .
5 Or perhaps none of it is real and I 'm just dreaming …
6 Or perhaps none of the shirts is for me …
7 With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes .
8 It was more or less something along those lines was n't it
9 Well they 've got er links with six colleges so they can offer you more or less anything from management to catering to horticulture .
10 Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area .
11 For example , both English and Tamil have pronouns , but in Tamil there is much greater differentiation in the system , particularly in the third person singular : The respectful form is used in speaking of someone older than you or above you in status .
12 Whether or not something of the sort put into Griffith 's head the idea of fracture as an energy process , I have no idea .
13 Thus , there should be a sufficient threat if , in the circumstances known to the accused , the threat might ( 1 ) influence the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage ( whether or not it in fact influences the person addressed ) , or ( 2 ) influence the mind of the person addressed , though it would not influence an ordinary person .
14 And any double bond will consist of a sigma bond and pie bond and because you 've got the pie bond there it then restricts rotation about that carbon carbon bond axis and providing you have different groups here different groups of , at each end or just one in there at both ends you can get two different isomers .
15 But for amateurs , semi-pros or just anyone with less money to burn , it 's not so simple .
16 The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal — or preferably none at all — with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's putative electronic trading system .
17 Depending on the particular combination of methods researchers have used , they have reported a fear of strangers in all or nearly none of the babies studied .
18 Emotionally , you still appear to be feeling somewhat torn and indecisive and the trouble is you have an enormous yearning to give while asking for very little or even nothing in return .
19 Yet , she felt slightly naked in having to get into the ambulance without a coat or even something on her head .
20 Money may be in the form of some physical item that is actually handed from one person to another : for example , gold , silver , other coin , banknotes , or even something like cigarettes .
21 An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes .
22 Any individual is entitled to follow any faith he chooses — or even none at all — but this should be done sincerely and not simply as some sort of ‘ insurance policy ’ against whatever may arise in the future .
23 A recent paper in The Lancet observed that people aged over 70 are excluded from almost all clinical trials of cancer treatment , with the result that elderly patients ‘ receive either untested treatments , inadequate treatments , or even none at all , at the whim of their clinician . ’
24 If you are using one or more ‘ editing decks ’ , that is VCRs which have features which are specially provided for facilitating the editing of video , you will be able to assemble your tapes quickly and reasonably accurately with one of the more basic edit controllers — or even none at all .
25 Obviously most severely disabled persons are likely to have financial problems as they have either a limited earning capacity or even none at all .
26 The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family .
27 ‘ Anything less than seven points could mean a play-off or indeed nothing at all because so many teams still have a chance . ’
28 Not just the content of erm the two hours but anything else which you feel is pertinent to you as a group or indeed you as an individual .
29 These are potentially dangerous side effects for anyone with heart disease , epilepsy , asthma , or indeed anyone in a poor mental or physical condition .
30 The problem is getting an answer , or a least one that does n't tell us anything we do n't already know or indeed anything at all .
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