Example sentences of "or [adv] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 2 | There may be very little transactional business enacted , or effectively none at all ( see Aston 1986 ) . |
| 3 | With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes . |
| 4 | The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal — or preferably none at all — with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's putative electronic trading system . |
| 5 | Any individual is entitled to follow any faith he chooses — or even none at all — but this should be done sincerely and not simply as some sort of ‘ insurance policy ’ against whatever may arise in the future . |
| 6 | A recent paper in The Lancet observed that people aged over 70 are excluded from almost all clinical trials of cancer treatment , with the result that elderly patients ‘ receive either untested treatments , inadequate treatments , or even none at all , at the whim of their clinician . ’ |
| 7 | If you are using one or more ‘ editing decks ’ , that is VCRs which have features which are specially provided for facilitating the editing of video , you will be able to assemble your tapes quickly and reasonably accurately with one of the more basic edit controllers — or even none at all . |
| 8 | Obviously most severely disabled persons are likely to have financial problems as they have either a limited earning capacity or even none at all . |
| 9 | The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything less than seven points could mean a play-off or indeed nothing at all because so many teams still have a chance . ’ |
| 11 | The problem is getting an answer , or a least one that does n't tell us anything we do n't already know or indeed anything at all . |
| 12 | We realized that the unfortunate Wopsle had no understanding of the law , or indeed anything at all . |
| 13 | Always out gallivanting , and him home with a sitter or maybe nobody at all , for all I know . ’ |
| 14 | Here , truly , is a place to sense freedom , to be away from the crowds and the pressures of the world , to wander for miles seeing only a handful of people enjoying the same leisurely activity , or maybe no-one at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Scientific knowledge , like language , is intrinsically the common property of a group or else nothing at all . |