Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | Lifetable analysis — In a study of this kind , it is rarely possible to follow up every patient until they either relapse or successfully complete the trial . |
| 3 | This has principally meant providing more access to consumer goods and services , such as education , while continuing to deny any section of the black population access to political decision-making , or fundamentally changing the economic order . |
| 4 | Turning the knob left or right rotates the bearing scale . |
| 5 | In particular , what effect will it have on patrolling officers ' discretionary decisions ( whether to prosecute or verbally advise an offending motorist ) , what consequences may there be for the management and monitoring of these discretionary enforcement practices by supervisory officers , and what implications are there for Force training |
| 6 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 7 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 8 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 9 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 10 | I still hoped to aid Justine — or rather to correct the course of justice , feeling , in some vague and entirely unwarrantable way , that I was more civilized than these Genevese , having a two-century evolutionary lead over them ! |
| 11 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 12 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 13 | They will identify and ‘ think through ’ the issues — or rather do the market analysis that substitutes for political thought — and create the slogans and policies in terms of the conditioned reflexes of the electorate which can be controlled by political advertising on the issues . |
| 14 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 15 | Within them , the companies either owned or effectively controlled the services , so that the miners and their families shopped at company shops , drank at company pubs , and played sports at colliery clubs . |
| 16 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ New Courses ’ comprise combinations of units either developed nationally or locally to create a new course , i.e. one which leads to a qualification which is substantially different from existing provision but which meets a defined local or national need . |
| 18 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 19 | If the holder 's vehicles suffer prohibitions because of unroadworthiness or overloading , if he has made false statements of intent which have not been fulfilled , if there has been a material change of circumstances relating to the licence holder or if an unnominated operating centre has been used , the LA may also revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate the licence . |
| 20 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 21 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 22 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 23 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 24 | The fact that the research in 18 of the 23 subjects offered for assessment has been rated as reaching a level of national significance or better provides a very satisfactory base on which to building the University 's future as a research university . |
| 25 | Others looked back further in time , perhaps to the late-Victorian era , with the long-term failure to invest , to engage in industrial or technical training , to develop new industries , or perhaps to create an industrial or business-minded culture at all . |
| 26 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 27 | It is excellent for developing empathy ( putting themselves in the shoes of a person from the past ) , or perhaps exploring an event from different viewpoints ( to target interpretations of history ) . |
| 28 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
| 29 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 30 | I think he was either going to flee or perhaps blackmail the murderers , without telling us . |