Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 2 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 3 | And for a first course all you will need is either the broth from the pot-au-feu , which will have a very fine flavour and which you can thicken if you like with a little rice — there should be enough for seven or eight people — or perhaps a dish of mussels , or a light fish soup . |
| 4 | The existing schemes in the early and mid-1980s were usually based upon an annual interview by a member of the Senior Management Team of a school , or perhaps a head of department . |
| 5 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 6 | Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative . |
| 7 | Whether he had in mind a reduction in the Royalty , or perhaps a contribution towards the cost of the trials , is not clear . |
| 8 | Emma played ‘ Jingle Bells ’ on the recorder quite nicely , or perhaps a mixture of wine and the brandy sauce mellowed the ear . |
| 9 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 10 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 11 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 12 | In tiny flats and bedsitters it 's more often the living room that has to make space for dining , in which case it 's a good idea to separate the two functions with either a physical division — like an arch , trellis or shelving — or with visual treatment like different lighting or flooring , or perhaps a change of colour or mood created by wall coverings and soft furnishings . |
| 13 | DAY 4 : Time for last minute shopping or perhaps a visit to the Rijksmuseum to see the Night Watch by Rembrandt or the Van Gogh Museum to see a vast array of the master 's work . |
| 14 | Or perhaps a visit to the Fontana di Trevi . ’ |
| 15 | But if I know her she is composing something more like an entry in a good encyclopaedia , or perhaps a chapter in her own book . |
| 16 | In fact , helping out with the dreary road and fitness work could result in you being offered a day 's hunting or perhaps a ride around a hunter trial or whatever . |
| 17 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 18 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 19 | The prayers , or perhaps a combination of skill and simple luck — against Zimbabwe in particular — helped the Namibians win the tournament undefeated . |
| 20 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 21 | Now that was er er more or less a favour to me . |
| 22 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 23 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 24 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 25 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 26 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 27 | Kellmer Pringle argues that we need a concept of responsible and informed parenthood and a recognition that the ability and willingness to undertake the responsibilities of parenthood are not dependent on , or necessarily a consequence of , biological parenthood . |
| 28 | Many busy working people have this quality of appeal , workpeople who will share an interest in what they are doing in an office or down a hole in the street . |
| 29 | Am I up a flight of stairs or down a flight of stairs ? |
| 30 | Ah , that 's within the training , but if you got ta , if you 're gon na train somebody or especially a group of people you 've got ta have some objective that is specific . |