Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Little Short Songs to Three Voyces ( 1593 ) , Madrigalls to Foure Voyces ( 1594 ) , First Book of Balletts to five voyces ( 1595 ) , and their successors are the most Italianate of all Elizabethan compositions . |
| 2 | When Morley brought out his Canzonets or Little Short Aers to five and sixe Voices in 1597 , he also provided most of them with a lute transcription of the lower voices . |
| 3 | Mr Georgiadis said : ‘ This murder has nothing to do with poachers , Ugandans , Somalians , Tanzanians or little green men from Mars … |
| 4 | These stimuli comprised of verbal ( trigram ) and spatial ( dot location ) tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject while s/he shadowed auditory verbal stimuli . |
| 5 | These stimuli comprised of verbal and spatial tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject . |
| 6 | These workers presented letter strings to the left or right visual field for different durations . |
| 7 | It is worthy of note at this point that the decision as to what is the correct or most similar remedy for a patient is not necessarily simple or straightforward . |
| 8 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 9 | So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee ( at a wholly extortionate price ) I was able to thaw my limbs , re-line my stomach , rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation . |
| 10 | Because the map coordinates of the locations of the car and the service unit are represented digitally , the shortest or most convenient route between the two points can be worked out automatically . |
| 11 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 12 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 13 | Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) put it stronger when they said NAEP was so limited that it has ‘ virtually no capacity to provide the federal government , the lay public , or most educational policymakers with results that are directly useful for decision making ’ . |
| 14 | She could not bear the claustrophobia of the place , which magnified the smallest incidents or most trivial remarks into giant horrors . |
| 15 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 16 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 17 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 18 | My knowledge , or rather realistic apprehension of it , at such an early age came from a coincidence of circumstances . |
| 19 | So , while the OAS plots raised or rather revived concerns about what would happen to the Fifth Republic after its founder 's disappearance , the re-emergence of parliamentary opposition revived concerns about a restoration of the régime des partis . |
| 20 | This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period . |
| 21 | Some choice theorists attempt a reconciliation with this legal doctrine by purporting to show that consideration provides a test of the deliberateness of a choice rather than an imposition of a paternalistic or economically motivated control over the scope of enforceable voluntary obligations . |
| 22 | It is always worth examining the surfaces of fossils like brachiopods or sea urchins to see if the fine matted or delicately branching colonies of bryozoa are preserved on their surfaces — they are easily overlooked . |
| 23 | Adorno 's critique , therefore , and in particular the critique of the Culture Industry is mounted from the increasingly beleaguered and restricted field of the avant garde , and it is this , in part , which wins it the current disapproval of the more enthusiastically affirmative , apparently democratic , or outright populist approaches to popular culture . |
| 24 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
| 25 | Patients who had inoperable , measurable , histologically confirmed metastatic or locally recurrent adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum were eligible for entry into the study . |
| 26 | He had become increasingly selective in what he did , avoiding , on the whole , long runs in the West End , and concentrating on starring television parts or extremely lucrative cameos in international films . |
| 27 | It was held that the defendants were guilty of wilfully promoting racial hatred if they foresaw that hatred was a certain or morally certain consequence of what they were doing , even though it was not their purpose to promote hatred . |
| 28 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 29 | STB is also responsible for operating system-independent platforms so third parties can sell Sun hardware with Novell Inc , real-time or perhaps competing software like Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 30 | Rather than declining offers out of hand it may be appropriate to decline offers as they stand but to suggest that potential purchasers may wish to reconsider their offers ( or perhaps certain aspects of their offers ) in the light of further information . |