Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual attributions of guilt point to left or right often according to the ideological standpoint of the scholar — and , it must be stressed , the vision of history which this implies . |
| 2 | These had left too many pupils of average ability or below either struggling with work beyond their abilities or following ‘ improvised ’ courses . |
| 3 | Sit yourself down , or better still go into the sitting-room . |
| 4 | Month followed month without news — we clung to every shred of hope — was he a prisoner , or perhaps even hidden by the French Resistance ? |
| 5 | Now nobody would believe me or perhaps even speak to me . |
| 6 | Are such perceptions accurate , distorted or partial and to what extent do they enable public sector staff to meet , merge with , miss or perhaps even collide with the aspirations of their local groups ? |
| 7 | I may read the papers , or perhaps just stay in bed wondering if there 's anything on the doorstep . |
| 8 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 9 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 10 | In the Far East substantial territory had been more or less peacefully wrested from the embattled Chinese Empire . |
| 11 | In many societies , but more particularly in modern societies , there are numerous different centres of political thought and experience : educational institutions of various types ; party organizations ( including party schools and research institutes ) ; the mass media ; more or less official ‘ think tanks ’ ; the central offices of trade unions and employers ' associations ; international agencies ; and a considerable number of private associations devoted to political research and education , some of which have grown out of social movements and remain more or less closely connected with them . |
| 12 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 13 | So popular government was more or less firmly established from 461 BC until it was finally swept away by the Macedonian conquerors in 322 BC , to be replaced by the kind of restricted franchise which its opponents had always preferred . |
| 14 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 15 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 16 | For new applicants , different councils ' rules and regulations on allocations may be more or less strictly enforced by local officials . |
| 17 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 18 | As to 1 , the court took a rule of liability which had been more or less clearly perceived in connection with the escape of fire , cattle or unruly beasts , and extended it to the escape of mischievous things generally . |
| 19 | There are many degrees of cerebral development in insects , more or less clearly correlated with the complexity of the insect 's sensory equipment or behaviour ( Howse , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 21 | were more or less successfully incorporated into political life , first by successive extensions of the suffrage and political ‘ citizenship ’ , later by the evolution of well-organized institutions of interest mediation . |
| 22 | With the two sides more or less equally matched in numbers , and Wightman 's horse unable to deploy effectively , Tullibardine was well placed to achieve a modest victory . |
| 23 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 24 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |
| 25 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 26 | Result : defeat which left Neath effectively and more or less openly pulling against what Ryan perceived to be the national interest . |
| 27 | Unlike the brachiopods , many of the modes of life of living bivalve molluscs can be more or less directly matched in fossil examples . |
| 28 | Hence he is more or less permanently associated by middle class opinion with a back region . |
| 29 | Over most of enclosed England , the small fields were hedged around with hawthorn fences , more or less thickly interspersed with ash and elm — the great trees of the Midlands — which when they were full grown gave the appearance of an almost continuous wood , especially when seen from an eminence . |
| 30 | Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size . |