Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 2 | For example , if someone is looking agitated or clearly fuming with anger , indicate openly that you can see they are upset . |
| 3 | Since then I have refused to subscribe to the view that there is something malevolent or subconsciously deliberate about forgetfulness . |
| 4 | You do a complete circuit , left or right depending on wind , and then you can go where you want . |
| 5 | Hoffman is a ‘ character ’ emanating a naive or crotchety puniness ; in this part , however , a more neutral figure , scholarly and aloof but not infantile or even doltish in appearance , would have been vastly preferable . ’ |
| 6 | If , however , we insist that the scribes were simply careless or poorly acquainted with English , we shall be inclined ( as many scholars have been ) to reject the evidence and date this sound-change much later — at a time when it was actually completed in ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 7 | There is no reason at all to suppose that the policies of these states would have been more intelligent or less influenced by fear and ambition if they had been decided by parliaments elected on the widest and fairest franchise possible and carried out by diplomatic services freed from social distinctions . |