Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 2 | If anyone in the SSD can shed any light on the matter , or better still on the origins of the letter , she or he will immediately be nominated reader of the week , be the envy of all and sundry , and receive a special prize . |
| 3 | Some interest in listening to music on record , or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed . |
| 4 | Or perhaps just above the arms of the scissors . |
| 5 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 6 | Each mask unlocks lost memory when you look at it ; each mask gives access to a lost talent : it opens the door , if you like , and lets the legends out … or perhaps in across the threshold . |
| 7 | These techniques were based on theories of human motivation related more or less closely to the work of Maslow ( 1943 ) . |
| 8 | In subject curriculum development , schemes in Mathematics , Science and English predominated , a number being linked more or less closely with the EDC 's African Education projects described earlier , but some , like the UNESCO sponsored science project in the Bendel State of Nigeria , of different parentage and philosophy . |
| 9 | The business of designing machines , processes and systems can be pursued more or less independently of the properties of people . |
| 10 | They are not the " easy to move " people , they are not people who can live more or less independently in the Community . |
| 11 | If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost . |
| 12 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 13 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 14 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 15 | Far to the south , Britons tucked into curry and mulligatawny soup , both transliterated more or less straight from the language of Madras . |
| 16 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 17 | There is a relatively small administrative staff , all employed at the company 's St Helens head office , and a number of brewery workers who are split more or less equally between the St Helens and Northwich sites . |
| 18 | But in a large group where all actors stand to gain more or less equally from the group 's success , it can be very hard indeed to organize any collective action . |
| 19 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 20 | Suppose a propensity to react more or less negatively to the environment is inherited , but is also affected by environmental circumstances . |
| 21 | If the glider is facing more or less directly into the wind , and there is a pilot in the cockpit , it is just as safe as it would be after a normal landing . |
| 22 | The first change , the move to theism , happened in 1929 and coincided more or less directly with the death of his father . |
| 23 | After a few trials , the rat will swim more or less directly to the shelf , locating it by cues in the environment such as the clock , light and cage . |
| 24 | He placed his hopes first in Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , to whom he dedicated An Order of Household Instruction ( 1596 ) , and then on James VI , to whom he appealed more or less directly in The Plea of the Innocent ( 1602 ) , an account of the variable fortunes of the godly cause under Elizabethan rule . |
| 25 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 26 | Apart from the traditional kinds based upon potassium permanganate or copper sulphate , there are now dual algicides/fish fungicides and slow release kinds , available as a dissolving block kept more or less permanently in the pool . |
| 27 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 28 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 29 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 30 | It started when he was only fourteen , and he was more or less alone among the boys in being smiled upon . |