Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we 'd go off to Felixstowe or somewhere but you see we still went away because he had four first class passes a year |
| 2 | ‘ Since you are Derek 's friends — or rather since you do n't care very much for his health and welfare I will not call you his friends but surely I ought to know your name ! ’ |
| 3 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology , or rather because it does n't require image decompression , 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 seconds , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 4 | Because of its Hypersoft compression technology or rather because it does n't require image decompression 100 full-screen zoomed images can be viewed in less than 17 second , 1,000 in 3.5 minutes . |
| 5 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 6 | You can not conceive of the feelings that consumed me when I understood — or rather when I thought I understood — why you had come tonight , when you said you wanted to share your happiness with me , wanted to give me something . |
| 7 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 8 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 9 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 10 | Why should it be zero or below before they receive the small amount of assistance of £6 a week ? |
| 11 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 12 | Either that , or perhaps that she had n't asked very many pointed questions . |
| 13 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 14 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 15 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 16 | but you got ta do two hundred words or less that you wan na be when you 're older . |
| 17 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 18 | Then in fifty words ( or less if you like ) , write a Steg rap then take a hike . |
| 19 | Yeah in the the number on the bottom is bigger but that just means you 've got to share it out between more people so do you get more or less if you share it between more people ? |
| 20 | Which is more or less where we came in ! |
| 21 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 22 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 23 | And sitting , of course , more or less where he sat , now that he has moved into his new office . |
| 24 | Or especially when you start getting the low pip pip pip about every thirty seconds . |
| 25 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 26 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 27 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 28 | I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby . |
| 29 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 30 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |