Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 2 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 3 | Specifically , those situations in which drivers might normally expect to experience risk ( e.g. generally dangerous junctions or right turns ) showed the expected effect , recognition sensitivity was better for risky exemplars than less risky ones . |
| 4 | Turning the knob left or right rotates the bearing scale . |
| 5 | Where , by contrast , the relationship between subject and type of work is more pluralistic , that possibility does not exist ; or rather does not exist in theory . |
| 6 | … let us see what the statement of claim alleges , or rather does not allege . |
| 7 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 8 | No need to plan anything — and I 'm someone who likes planning things , or rather gets worried if things are n't planned . |
| 9 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 10 | Barth introduces seven correspondents , or rather reintroduces them since they are all figures from his earlier works , and Barth himself is projected into the fiction as an updated form of ‘ Mr. B. ’ , Pamela 's seducer in Richardson 's novel . |
| 11 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 12 | If I had any doubts , or rather hopes , they re dispelled . |
| 13 | The capital investment programme is , or rather purports to be , a plan for the employment of available resources of manpower and materials . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman glares , or rather stares impassively , at me . |
| 15 | ( 1.1 ) We have in fact already come close to the view that mental events are at bottom individual properties , or rather sets of them , in allowing that the interdependent existence of subject and content may be a matter of nomic correlation . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 18 | It gets parcelled out among the society he moves in , or rather flits in and out of , while himself belonging elsewhere , which means nowhere . |
| 19 | Within such states a single language , that of the ‘ nation ’ in question , is dominant , or rather enjoys privileged official status or monopoly . |
| 20 | Sometimes their demands and requests invoke an aggressive response from the child while in other families the child just ignores the request or blatantly refuses to comply . |
| 21 | But no subject received more attention than Mathematics and no curriculum project then or since has received such massive support as the Entebbe programme and its successors . |
| 22 | No one before or since has published so much from so many sites in quantity and variety . |
| 23 | Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck . |
| 24 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 25 | The fact that the research in 18 of the 23 subjects offered for assessment has been rated as reaching a level of national significance or better provides a very satisfactory base on which to building the University 's future as a research university . |
| 26 | All products from the jungle are shared equally among members of the large house , while garden products and artifacts are privately owned by the individuals whose labour produces them ( or literally creates them ; see below ) . |
| 27 | It might be that the individual does not see the value of climbing a mountain ; or perhaps does not have the confidence to set about the task . |
| 28 | The impairment of faculties suffered by its inmates is carefully , even graphically , represented by the text — for example , one character who dies , or perhaps falls asleep , leaves only blank pages to represent the extinction of her consciousness . |
| 29 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 30 | This means that they must on no account fail us , just as , to take a different level , the woman whose beauty we find captivating must be seen to maintain her attractions : so much so that we ‘ will ’ her to display a beauty that she does not always possess , or perhaps has never possessed . |