Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | According to Cochrane et al. ( 1985 ) , the land-use practised depends mainly on how well or badly the savannas are drained . |
| 3 | To counteract this , an individual generally benefits from continual changes in the type of task being performed as well as continual updating on how well or badly the task is being done . |
| 4 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The weekend had been a failure — or rather a success . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 9 | I 'm a woman , or rather a girl , and not clever . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We seem to be seeing , in the fossils , an arms race , or rather a series of restarting arms races , between carnivores and herbivores . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Johnson , however , devotes one mere paragraph to a description — or rather a non-description — of their visit . |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hiding in one or other of these ways may ‘ work ’ , in that the self-recriminations that the injunctions breed , or rather the awareness of them , is reduced to manageable levels . |
| 19 | We refer to this ratio , or rather the ratio of the tangents of the two angles , as the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) . |
| 20 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 21 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 22 | It did n't take the Brain of Britain to deduce that he had known , somehow , that she had drugged his coffee , and full marks to his rapier mind — he had turned the tables , or rather the mugs , very neatly . |
| 23 | Near the Place des Greves , or rather the square close to it , a great crowd had gathered to witness an execution . |
| 24 | Paddy looked towards heaven — or rather the ceiling of the educational institution in which he found himself . |
| 25 | As he learned the craft , the penny finally dropped — or rather the ball . |
| 26 | In 1813 he mentions ‘ our dance , or rather the girls ' first dance ’ and there are many other diary entries showing attendance at Balls at Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 27 | Whichever theory is correct , we can only be sure of the distribution of the tiger today , or rather the day before yesterday . |
| 28 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 29 | Each egg , or rather the larva that hatches from it , is provided with a supply of fresh food in the form of a caterpillar , which the female paralyses with her sting . |
| 30 | In other cases , the previous reign of horror may have more recently ended and the name — or rather the nickname — will still be easily recalled by readers . |