Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must consider whether it would be desirable or possible to do so to sea-launched ballistic missiles . |
| 2 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 3 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 4 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 5 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 6 | Instances can be cited where this appears not to be the case : where prominence is due to other than literary considerations . |
| 7 | How can you , could you do that if you 've got I mean he 's about twelve or thirteen comes home from school |
| 8 | They were nice , or all right , kind or likeable or easy to get on with . |
| 9 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 10 | There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason . |
| 11 | But even as eye and ear follow the darting changes here and there , as if they were the only reality , even as that happens we are made aware that the great screen is showing some sharply outlined human scene — the easy or awkward coming together of acquaintances in this pub , that cemetery , this newspaper office , that maternity hospital , library or brothel the making and the unmaking of friendships and hopes — the experience of solitude . |
| 12 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 13 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 14 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 15 | Neil Miller , the dealing manager , was critical of this manoeuvre , saying of the dealer : " He could be doing four or five deals back in the office . |
| 16 | You get the same piece of pizza whether it 's two shared out between six , four shared out between twelve or one shared out between three or twenty four shared out between a lot of people . |
| 17 | S. Kettering was either a particularly serious-minded chap or anxious to show off to his tenants . |
| 18 | One or two looked questioningly at Cameron but he was absorbed in thinking up phrases . |
| 19 | Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads . |
| 20 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got an hour or two to fill in before my train . |
| 22 | And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village . |
| 23 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 24 | Her euphoria had been considerably aided and abetted by the intake of some gin and orange drinks and a cocktail or two given freely to those selected few responsible for the organising of such a grand evening . |
| 25 | One or two went down without taking examinations . |
| 26 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 27 | And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence . |
| 28 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 29 | I 'll squeeze a minute or two to come back at lunchtime , and I 'll bring some things for your throat then . |
| 30 | ‘ I most certainly take exception to one or two hints around at the moment that our biggest problem is keeping our cool . |