Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 2 | Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached . |
| 3 | The user may wish to see the previous few words , or the current sentence , or perhaps more than one sentence , as handwriting before the display changes . |
| 4 | So there were two things that er well or perhaps more than two from matters arising from the minutes , er the Chad for the tickets , I think was one thing that was , |
| 5 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 6 | Or perhaps earlier when someone had first suggested Morocco , and she had thought of it as somewhere different but not too far from Spain . |
| 7 | ‘ The disciplined use of decorative devices demands proper consideration of their function , ’ he emphasizes , ‘ even if or perhaps especially if that function is just to be eye-catching . |
| 8 | New studies show that targetting normal genes using viral and other systems to enter cells ( from marrow , the lung and gut , liver and skin ) may be easier than at first thought , and that DNA will function more or less normally once it gets into the cell . |
| 9 | Its frequency is usually fixed , though problems may arise more or less often than review cycles . |
| 10 | Erm but I mean that 's forecast for erm more or less now if the volumes stay as they are , so that 's an issue . |
| 11 | In Birmingham , corner boys and street gangs were known as ‘ Peaky Blinders ’ , or less commonly as ‘ Sloggers ’ , and they too had adopted the standard uniform of bell-bottom trousers , neck scarf , heavy belt , peaked cap and short cropped hair with a ‘ donkey fringe ’ . |
| 12 | To shed surplus weight with the F-Plan , allow yourself a maximum of 1,500 calories a day and a minimum of 1,000 calories ( or less only if medically supervised ) a day . |
| 13 | The residents overwhelmingly support the restructuring , with 82 per cent regarding their residential situation as better or somewhat better than before and only eight per cent feeling that it is worse . |
| 14 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 15 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 16 | The availability of cheap and regular transport by train and tram promoted suburbanization in the United States too , though a generation or so later than in Britain . |
| 17 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 18 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 20 | Correction followed a day or so later when Telegraph readers were told that the upturned finger had been employed in early-day meetings when congregations sang : The way to Heaven is straight and plain ; Will you go ? |
| 21 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 22 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 23 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 24 | These changes should allow the bureau to release the first summary reports in late spring next year , some six months or so earlier than in 1980 . |
| 25 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 26 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 27 | It involves applying full opposite rudder and then , with the ailerons central , moving the stick steadily or progressively forwards until the spin stops . |
| 28 | Always ensure that the surface of the paving is 6in ( l5cm ) or just more than two courses of brick below the damp-proof course of the house . |
| 29 | Once the Occupational Standards are finalised , an awarding body ( or possibly more than one awarding body ) will look at ways of assessing whether an individual can meet the Occupational Standards or not . |
| 30 | Having fixed these ‘ volume ’ targets at the beginning of its period of office , a government would seek to hold to them even if the economy expanded faster or more slowly than expected , or if prices or wages rose . |