Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What justifies the assumption that two qualitatively identical things can occupy simultaneously two different places , or numerically the same place in succession ? |
| 2 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 3 | The Labour group , currently with 25 seats compared to the Tories ' 57 , believes it needs another 25 to gain control — depending on how well or badly the Liberal Democrats fare . |
| 4 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |
| 5 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 6 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 7 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 8 | ‘ Let me outline the case , or rather the two cases , to you all . |
| 9 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 10 | The point , or rather the angled corner , of the Polychromos Pastel and its chisel-like leading edge gives it is immediate graphic potential . |
| 11 | She was the defendant , or rather the accused , and should have known it all along . |
| 12 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 13 | Or rather the Neapolitan bone-ache , for that , methinks , is the curse depending on those that war for a placket . |
| 14 | He reached the door , or rather the cast-iron gate as his destination was a villa , quite a large villa with a central courtyard . |
| 15 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 16 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 17 | It is the new paganism , or rather the old variety with a facelift and a fresh application of make-up . |
| 18 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 19 | They were all here , or rather the outward appearance of what was them was here . |
| 20 | For the builder the most significant disadvantages created by the employment of directly employed labour are the need to : ( a ) Create incentive or motivation which will induce the operative to achieve a production rate that will equal or better the tender or estimate . |
| 21 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 22 | Or perhaps the subtle energy with which the place is charged will encourage the growth of a tree or the thickening of a hedge . |
| 23 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 24 | The final proof , or perhaps the first , is the chub 's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips . |
| 25 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 26 | Or perhaps the recent tremor was just a prelude to the really big one . |
| 27 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 28 | Or perhaps the New Horizons people would prefer you to buy WinMail , which Software Partners also have on their lists at the same price — we 'll perhaps look at that another time . |
| 29 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 30 | Sometimes there is a curious line of dots curved into an arc shape , which may be taken to represent a rainbow or perhaps the Milky Way . |