Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 3 | There is an urgent need for a powerful voice to speak for education when government policies and programmes are unrealistic , ill timed or inadequately resourced . |
| 4 | And indeed , where little had happened in the years before December 1557 , there was an alarming upsurge of Protestant activity in 1558 . |
| 5 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 6 | It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified . |
| 7 | Specific studies of a region may have already been carried out , perhaps on the trade in a particular type of pottery , or on defended hilltop sites . |
| 8 | We do n't want to be murdered , raped , robbed , assaulted , or criminally victimized in any other way . |
| 9 | A complete semantic theory , whether human or computationally oriented , must specify for each expression what semantic information that expression conveys , which in turn determines what that expression can refer to . |
| 10 | She kept the pregnancy to herself — or rather kept it from herself , and from everyone else , for too long . |
| 11 | I once walked , or rather limped , the thirteen miles of tarmac , plagued by a protruding nail in the sole of my shoe which was digging a small crater in my heel , and during the whole journey not a single vehicle passed me . |
| 12 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 13 | Only recently I suffered a modest attack of it myself when recounting what I had eaten , or rather had n't eaten , that day . |
| 14 | Since it is admitted , or rather insisted , that as far as you are concerned there could be no difference between the hypothesis that you are currently sitting reading and the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of one sitting reading , then it can not matter to you which is really true and which is false . |
| 15 | Ten years ago the record stood , or rather fell , at 35,000 . |
| 16 | Its spine was missing , or rather protruded from amongst the leaves like a bulky marker . |
| 17 | Robyn is not sure whether this is wonderfully modern and liberated of them , or rather depraved . |
| 18 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 19 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 20 | There were grey areas in what she had told him — or rather allowed him to believe . |
| 21 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 22 | I said — or rather shouted — the following : |
| 23 | With just 10 minutes to go though , United lost , or rather threw away their win , when Sam Goodacre scored a soft second goal for Scuthorpe to make it 2-all . |
| 24 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 25 | Within them , the companies either owned or effectively controlled the services , so that the miners and their families shopped at company shops , drank at company pubs , and played sports at colliery clubs . |
| 26 | They stayed in the luxurious hotels or rented or bought quintas , attracted by the low cost of living , low taxation , the hospitality of the people and the beauty of the island — although many people ( and this is often still true today ) never or rarely left their hotel . |
| 27 | An £800,000 loss at upmarket wallpaper group Osborne & Little left its shares unchanged at 66p . |
| 28 | He received no part of the purported consideration of £24,500 nor any benefit therefrom save that £1,800 or thereabouts had been expended in discharging his liability under the local authority mortgage . |
| 29 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 30 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |