Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in the main was from following the pipeline in Mespot to Damascus , or better still a rough track from Baghdad to Damascus , linked by a series of emergency landing grounds , staged on their way to Egypt . |
| 2 | Having your neck and shoulders rubbed , or better still a full body massage , is a good investment . |
| 3 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 4 | When you are tackling a larger area — a whole wall , or perhaps even a complete room — you use exactly the same techniques ; the big difference is the sheer scale of the job , which makes the preliminary setting-out by far the most important part . |
| 5 | As the Lord Chancellor indicated when the Bill was in committee , the provision was deliberately tailored to meet those exceptional cases involving ‘ the sort of invention which may revolutionise a company or perhaps even a whole industry ’ |
| 6 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 7 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 8 | But other writers or perhaps even the same writers in other contexts , were concerned with institutional differences , varieties of law , of systems of government , of property relations , of forms of the family . |
| 9 | The changes brought about by electronically based information technology are so fundamental that , for the historian at least , they must be equated with the invention and spread of printing or perhaps even the initial development of the written record . |
| 10 | Consciousness of this fact , plus a desire to court moderate Republican opinion , ensured that early rebel pronouncements were limited to vague calls for the prevention of left-wing revolution , the maintenance of national unity and the restoration of authority ; beyond that it remained unclear whether the rising , if successful , would produce a conservative , more authoritarian republic , a monarchist restoration , a military dictatorship or perhaps even an out-and-out fascist state . |
| 11 | A word , or perhaps just a certain pronunciation of a word , may not be contained in the lexicon . |
| 12 | If you were to examine the work you may not find any faults , or perhaps just a few minor ones which ‘ do n't really matter ’ . |
| 13 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 14 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 15 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 16 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
| 17 | There is obviously a great buzz in live performance , and live work during this period was more or less just a lengthy summer tour with Andy Gibb in America . |
| 18 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 19 | I think that 's more or less still the same . |
| 20 | But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances . |
| 21 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 22 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman appears to argue that it would be better to use a method based on population , irrespective of need or possibly even a sensitive formula-driven system which would take account of different needs of different regions . |
| 24 | First of all , we are virtually deprived of the Seleucid , or more generally the Hellenic , version of the events in Judaea . |
| 25 | It is this kind of inference that Grice dubs an implicature , or more properly a conversational implicature . |
| 26 | But there is another way in which the Anthropic Principle , or more strictly a Biothropic Principle , could be indisputably self-evident , if it means that animal and biological life on just one planet has its genesis in cosmic forces . |
| 27 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 28 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 29 | The dialectic of the modern capitalist , or more precisely the modern mixed , economy , all but exclusively involves the role of government . |
| 30 | The history of a castle on this site dates back to 1231 when a stone castle , or more likely a fortified manor was built by Robert de Tattershall . |