Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By combining these two exercises , teachers are in a much better position to be able to say to the demanders , whether parents , government or somewhere in between : ‘ Given the resources of time , material , support and expertise , we are able to do A , B and C or C , D and E , but not A , B and E , let alone all five . |
| 2 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 3 | Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 . |
| 4 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 5 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 6 | Or rather back to home . |
| 7 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 8 | Each mask unlocks lost memory when you look at it ; each mask gives access to a lost talent : it opens the door , if you like , and lets the legends out … or perhaps in across the threshold . |
| 9 | The point is , that whether it 's addressed personally , or all round to anyone who might be watching , whether it 's verbal or mimetic , the function of an account is to correct a potentially unfavourable impression of oneself which an infraction of the unwritten rules might produce . |
| 10 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 11 | So our performance , in terms of F T Es per thousand pound , per thousand item , should be running more or less along at the November December level . |
| 12 | Scorpius is setting , and the Cross is more or less out of view , though as seen from anywhere south of Sydney or the Cape it never drops below the horizon . |
| 13 | The other is to disperse them so that their unwanted presence may be put more or less out of sight ’ ( p. 280 ) . |
| 14 | But in the end I managed to put the events more or less out of my mind , and to finish my preparations . |
| 15 | So , course a bit later we all went off to bed and er well I , the next thing I remember were was er me father coming grabbing out to me and me brother , and chucking us more or less out of ou get off downstairs and get under the table ! |
| 16 | — have incomes of £70 or less out of which they pay about £10 to £15 in rent ? |
| 17 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 18 | Turn and go past the swimming baths and take your first right and you 're going more or less down to erm where that boy married what you |
| 19 | She had been going to take a walk around Mariánské Láznë , had n't she , so a three mile walk or so up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home would n't be so difficult , would it ? |
| 20 | In 1974 real output was 5.02 million b/d , a million or so up on 1972 . |
| 21 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 22 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |
| 23 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 24 | A mile or so out of Taormina , the Terra Rossa complex of 35 apartments in nine buildings is to be found in a quiet , rural setting , wonderfully secluded and in an extremely panoramic position . |
| 25 | It can be seen , therefore , that there has been a nucleated village at Wharram Percy for only 400 years or so out of at least 2000 years , and that , in effect , the village as a form of settlement was an aberration , the single farm being the normal settlement from which the land was worked . |
| 26 | But on the way home , the prospect of a day or so out of sight seemed a prudent thing to consider . |
| 27 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 28 | A rock awash outside the reef entrance was 100 metres or so off to port . ’ |
| 29 | He got out of the car and went up and down on his haunches a few times to ease some of the stiffness from his legs , then started to walk the mile or so back to the hotel gates . |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |