Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These stimuli comprised of verbal and spatial tasks with the stimuli directed either to the left or right visual field of the subject . |
| 3 | These workers presented letter strings to the left or right visual field for different durations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My knowledge , or rather realistic apprehension of it , at such an early age came from a coincidence of circumstances . |
| 11 | This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Patients who had inoperable , measurable , histologically confirmed metastatic or locally recurrent adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum were eligible for entry into the study . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 18 | Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up . |
| 19 | Now a behavioural analysis , or perhaps another way of looking at this is a decision analysis , is quite interesting . |
| 20 | but he person who was shop steward for the finishing department more or less assumed responsibility for the other shop stewards because the other shop stewards would perhaps only have fifteen or twenty , you know members er under them . |
| 21 | He had given a more or less lucid report of everything that happened after the moon rose . |
| 22 | Until they get such promises , they will be reluctant to accept Israel 's offer to hand over more or less immediate control of matters such as health , education , tourism and policing . |
| 23 | Male and female avocet , dunlin , redshank , common sandpiper , curlew , turnstone , black-tailed god wit , golden plover , ringed plover and little ringed plover — each ( according to the encyclopaedic Birds of the Western Pale arctic ) normally plays a more or less equal part in the incubation and brooding of the young . |
| 24 | That is now generally understood , in the United States and Britain at least , to mean procedures and practices that give all citizens more or less equal influence in the decisions that govern them . |
| 25 | The desire to complement the relative strengths and frailties of a practice may commend a true amalgamation of firms of more or less equal standing with the aim of providing a more comprehensive service at a higher standard . |
| 26 | Claims that English in education could offer some more or less democratic alternative to popular culture began to appear immediately after the war . |
| 27 | The X-25 gateway to link Payroll to Chessington has been found to demand more or less exclusive use of a fast , large-memory machine . |
| 28 | An equality of influence in the world between superpowers in the capacity to annihilate each other ( and ourselves ) may , for a while , alter the course of human history from one of repeated wars of a more or less controlled sort of strictly limited skirmishes in ‘ away from home ’ territories . |
| 29 | Any tutors wishing to present their students with a more or less logical progression from year one to year seven , have to contend with the awkward fact that in the summer term the examination classes are only in attend for their examinations . |
| 30 | In order to arrive at the answers , it is necessary to go through a more or less logical process of analysis , based on market research — whether published , or commissioned by the client , or ( occasionally ) commissioned by the agency — and on knowledge and experience . |