Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | Lifetable analysis — In a study of this kind , it is rarely possible to follow up every patient until they either relapse or successfully complete the trial . |
| 3 | Turning the knob left or right rotates the bearing scale . |
| 4 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 5 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 6 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 7 | I still hoped to aid Justine — or rather to correct the course of justice , feeling , in some vague and entirely unwarrantable way , that I was more civilized than these Genevese , having a two-century evolutionary lead over them ! |
| 8 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 9 | They will identify and ‘ think through ’ the issues — or rather do the market analysis that substitutes for political thought — and create the slogans and policies in terms of the conditioned reflexes of the electorate which can be controlled by political advertising on the issues . |
| 10 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 11 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 12 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 13 | If the holder 's vehicles suffer prohibitions because of unroadworthiness or overloading , if he has made false statements of intent which have not been fulfilled , if there has been a material change of circumstances relating to the licence holder or if an unnominated operating centre has been used , the LA may also revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate the licence . |
| 14 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 15 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 16 | It is excellent for developing empathy ( putting themselves in the shoes of a person from the past ) , or perhaps exploring an event from different viewpoints ( to target interpretations of history ) . |
| 17 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 18 | Or perhaps try a set of … |
| 19 | ‘ We were both trapped , you once said , ’ she reminded him helplessly , with some idea of comforting him , or perhaps easing the process of rationalisation and self-forgiveness he was inevitably going to have to endure . |
| 20 | Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems . |
| 21 | It means more than serious inconvenience , or even widespread inconvenience ( so that people might not be able to park where they usually do , or drive down a particular street or perhaps miss a train as a result of the demonstration ) . |
| 22 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 23 | There is some thought that this other musician , the choir master of Strasbourg wrote it , or perhaps produced the music , to which erm , Rouget de Lisle produced the words . |
| 24 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 25 | But you might want to create your own track pattern from a circuit diagram , or perhaps convert a stripboard layout to a printed circuit board ( p.c.b . ) . |
| 26 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |
| 27 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 28 | In the modern world the reasons for wanting to remember dreams have changed — nobody believes any more that an appropriate dream will cure physical illness , or perhaps predict the future . |
| 29 | But many Scottish broadcasters argue that in deploying minimum resources there will be instances where the new directorate wo n't authorise Manchester to fill the gap and they are faced with the choice of hiring independents at what might prove a greater cost , thereby going over budget , or perhaps losing the programme . |
| 30 | But the gap in the columns showing the cult image is the convention adopted by the die engraver to convey the essential nature of the temple and the identity of its cult , or perhaps to express the epiphany of the god . |