Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 2 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 3 | The weekend had been a failure — or rather a success . |
| 4 | In some cases , where the family is prepared to take special care of their loved ones , I would happily agree to a patient , or rather a writer , going home . |
| 5 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 6 | I 'm a woman , or rather a girl , and not clever . |
| 7 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 8 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 9 | Johnson , however , devotes one mere paragraph to a description — or rather a non-description — of their visit . |
| 10 | We know , for instance , that a Social Class V woman ( or rather a woman married to a Social Class V man ) has less of a chance of having a healthy child who will reach adulthood than a woman who is married to a man in Social Class I. |
| 11 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 12 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 13 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 14 | Or perhaps a clerk . ’ |
| 15 | O for the Wings of a Dove gave everyone pleasure , with Paul stumbling a little over the notes , but gaining poise with the full-throated singing of Dinah , true to the note , like a thrush , or perhaps a nightingale . |
| 16 | Either the salt would sting into a cut or raw spot on my body , bringing back bodily feeling in one fell swoop , or else , from somewhere in the bowels of building , my ears , questing for the remotest of stimuli , would pick up on the sound of a toilet being flushed , or perhaps a trolley banging against a wall . |
| 17 | And when species differ in colour pattern , for example , it not at all infrequently turns out that it 's just one gene , or perhaps a couple erm I mean trituris marmaratis , which is rather a nice green newt , christatus , which is rather a nice black and yellow spotted newt , you can hybridize them and the difference is due to a single gene as far as the colour is concerned gene . |
| 18 | you know , and er you just did n't er you just did n't have er er y you may get a cinema once a week , or perhaps a dance once a week , but that er that wa that was the limit , you know . |
| 19 | There had been a bridge there once , or perhaps a culvert . |
| 20 | We suggest you discuss your wishes with those close to you , or perhaps a nurse , counsellor , religious advisor or AIDS helpline . |
| 21 | And for a first course all you will need is either the broth from the pot-au-feu , which will have a very fine flavour and which you can thicken if you like with a little rice — there should be enough for seven or eight people — or perhaps a dish of mussels , or a light fish soup . |
| 22 | The government was plunging on into uncharted waters without a pilot or perhaps a map . |
| 23 | A double bridle , or perhaps a pelham , may be worn in the other classes , but if you are not used to riding in one , or your horse has a sensitive or difficult mouth , then stick to a snaffle . |
| 24 | The existing schemes in the early and mid-1980s were usually based upon an annual interview by a member of the Senior Management Team of a school , or perhaps a head of department . |
| 25 | ‘ Follow the hens with a goat , or perhaps a cow and a pig or two — ’ |
| 26 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 27 | Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative . |
| 28 | Whether he had in mind a reduction in the Royalty , or perhaps a contribution towards the cost of the trials , is not clear . |
| 29 | Emma played ‘ Jingle Bells ’ on the recorder quite nicely , or perhaps a mixture of wine and the brandy sauce mellowed the ear . |
| 30 | More often , however , the video recording will record an interview with a child , or perhaps a parent , in which incidents of abuse , sexual or otherwise , are disclosed . |