Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or somewhere away from these stairs . |
| 2 | Those taking up headland set-aside could site it either against a footpath , or right away from areas where members of the public were likely to go . |
| 3 | Something was always not quite hot or right enough for their father , be it the plates , the pie , or the potatoes . |
| 4 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 5 | A common sight throughout the rural areas of South India , occurring sometimes at the entrance to a village or town , near Siva temples and shrines , in the corner of a temple courtyard , near a water tank or stream ( water being the mother of life ) or most often under Peepul or Neem trees , is a cluster of erect stone slabs planted in the ground rising to about 3 feet in height on the face of which appear effigies of the Cobra or Nag , In relation to the afore-mentioned trees , generally ‘ married ’ to each other , they are symbolic of ‘ life ’ , with the Serpent representing their spirit or life energy . |
| 6 | As ever the builder was one jump ahead , or rather ahead of any one who 'd jump . |
| 7 | If anyone in the SSD can shed any light on the matter , or better still on the origins of the letter , she or he will immediately be nominated reader of the week , be the envy of all and sundry , and receive a special prize . |
| 8 | Or better still for lunch . |
| 9 | Some interest in listening to music on record , or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed . |
| 10 | Sole practitioners tended to argue that , if adopted , it should apply to the whole profession , or perhaps simply to those firms where there was evidence that reconciliations were not being undertaken in accordance with the rules . |
| 11 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
| 12 | Chemical symbols and the atomic theory took those who used them behind , or perhaps away from , the phenomena ; particular observations are only interesting in developed science against a background of abstraction and theory . |
| 13 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it can be argued that real believers are incapable of distancing themselves sufficiently to carry out an objective study of their own ( or perhaps even of someone else 's ) religion . |
| 15 | Those who are pupils of the large schools of music will have the great advantage of hearing a good many standard works rehearsed many times by the students ' orchestra , or perhaps even of playing in them . |
| 16 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | This can be caused by the disordered packing of chains in the amorphous glassy phase , and a random distribution of the available free volume , or perhaps even by the random coil structure of the chain itself causing local environmental changes . |
| 18 | The controversy will disappear once all the member states introduce equivalent conduct of business rules but that is unlikely to be achieved in the short or perhaps even in the medium term . |
| 19 | Or perhaps just above the arms of the scissors . |
| 20 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
| 21 | It is never — or perhaps only on occasion — the fault of an individual who has not done his job conscientiously or with an adequate standard of service . |
| 22 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 23 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 24 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 25 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |
| 26 | Mid-Victorian liberals had supposed that , as the beneficent influence of commerce penetrated the decadent societies of the East , ancient tyrannies would give way more or less peacefully to new principles of social order mirroring the civilization of bourgeois England . |
| 27 | He began using heroin at the age of 18 and has used it more or less regularly for five years . |
| 28 | Helen Frankenthaler , once significantly ‘ otherised ’ with Mr Motherwell , shows works from the Sixties ( ‘ The Classic Years ’ ) more or less concurrently at Emmerich ( 18 February to 20 March ) . |
| 29 | These techniques were based on theories of human motivation related more or less closely to the work of Maslow ( 1943 ) . |
| 30 | In subject curriculum development , schemes in Mathematics , Science and English predominated , a number being linked more or less closely with the EDC 's African Education projects described earlier , but some , like the UNESCO sponsored science project in the Bendel State of Nigeria , of different parentage and philosophy . |