Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Medical expenses and repatriation costs to the UK ( where medically certified as necessary ) . |
| 3 | The symptoms may seem trivial : dirty buildings or badly prepared and unimaginatively-presented food , but Hungary or Czechoslovakia are not inherently poor countries and their peoples are merely insulted by such decay . |
| 4 | An experienced German translator will normally replace all or most predicated and identifying themes with less marked German structures . |
| 5 | Carson thereupon fell out of the contest — or rather announced that he was not standing , for no official nominations had been made . |
| 6 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 7 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 8 | Ordnance survey maps , or professionally drawn and acceptable equivalent , will be needed . |
| 9 | Vegetables are from the garden or locally grown and bread and rolls are home-baked . |
| 10 | Then they are stoneground or mechanically milled and sieved . |
| 11 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 12 | They can also convey an intimacy in providing gentle , ‘ finger-picking ’ backing for soft or solo singing and playing , inducing a mood of vulnerability or timelessness . |
| 13 | These can be either electric or manually operated and are useful for checking additions and prelisting . |
| 14 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 15 | CALL IT teamwork , call it intuition , or perhaps summon that perennial old-stage Lady Luck , but The Joyriders ' opening gambit in the face of a non-committal Saturday night gathering bears the hallmark of an almost supernaturally-gifted outfit . |
| 16 | Her own position , forcefully argued at every turn , is that masculinity is ‘ a heterogeneous set of ideas , constructed around assumptions of social power , which are lived out and reinforced , or perhaps denied and challenged , in multiple and diverse ways within a whole social system in which relations of authority , work , and domestic life are organised , in the main , along hierarchical gender lines ( p. 288 ) . |
| 17 | Her hair would have been worn in ringlets , or perhaps plaited and held in place with decorative pins . |
| 18 | Where better to sit and be seen ? |
| 19 | This is a delightful bedside dipper of a book and where better to end than an epilogue — Mae West 's curtain speech to her play Catherine Was Great . |
| 20 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 21 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 22 | Parental control , relating to restrictions and rules for behaviour , was judged to be low when supervision was so negligent that the child was left more or less to do as she pleased . |
| 23 | ‘ He more or less admits that he fired first . ’ |
| 24 | ( One possible exception to this was Mexico , where the Communists were more or less tolerated until they made a misjudged and Comintern-inspired attempt to exploit an abortive right-wing coup against the portes Gil government in 1929 — see pages 39–40 . |
| 25 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 26 | ‘ He more or less said that he 'd leave the arrangements for Gray 's funeral and requiem in my hands and that , as for the press , Chapter could deal with them as they liked . |
| 27 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 28 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 29 | Definitely yes , I would say like , I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United in fourth position in the league , and let's hope so like you know . |
| 30 | In wild cats it then more or less disappears as they become adult , but domestic cats remain mentally like kittens even when they are fully grown , and continue to ‘ talk ’ to their human owners like kittens communicating with their mothers . |