Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 2 | The threat in schools is posed by the degree of control which the executive is able to exert over the education of children , or rather by the possibility that the power to dictate ( by inclusion or exclusion ) the content of education could be abused by a government with extreme views . |
| 3 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 4 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 5 | They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item . |
| 6 | These temperatures are consistent with the apparent rigidity of the outer 200 km or so of the Moon and with the strong attenuation of S waves beyond about 800 km , and with the large area to mass ratio of the Moon . |
| 7 | The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis . |
| 8 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 9 | High carbohydrate drinks will help refuel your muscles and will come in handy in the hour or so after the race if you are not able to eat anything . |
| 10 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 11 | Are the people in the room aware of the redness of the roses in the bowl , or merely of the fact that they are red ? |
| 12 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 13 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 14 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 15 | Uncle Philip must have come back so late at night or early in the morning that only Aunt Margaret was still awake . |
| 16 | Bred by Exhibitor For dogs who are not champions , and are owned wholly or partly by the breeder and shown by him or his family . |
| 17 | By the eighteenth century foreign offices , departments of state concerned simply or mainly with the making and execution of foreign policy , could be seen in embryo in many parts of Europe . |
| 18 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 19 | On a number of later occasions — in 1749 , 1753 , 1771–74 and 1788 — the device of exiling the Parlement to a provincial town was resorted to ; but every one of these struggles was ended by concessions made solely or mainly by the king and his ministers . |
| 20 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |
| 21 | Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten , except in folklore and collective memory ; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social policy or even in the way that society conceives itself ( S. Cohen , 1972 ) . |
| 22 | Only if the capital sum is paid directly or indirectly to the settlor or the spouse of the settlor can the provision apply . |
| 23 | It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived . |
| 24 | ( The context here makes the other possible reading , that the speaker is characteristically nervous all of the time , so unlikely as not to be considered apparently by the addressee , or indeed by the analyst until the process of analysis was brought to conscious attention . ) |
| 25 | Doctor Teesdale visited the condemned man in prison once or twice during the week before he was put to death . |
| 26 | … a Messuage or Tenement with the Outhouses , Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford … |
| 27 | Certain roads in Frome are to be widened : among the properties affected are ‘ … a Messuage or Tenement , with the Outhouses Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford 19 June 1797 . |
| 28 | In the Commission 's view , this is best done either antiphonally , between two sides of a congregation , or responsorially between the leader and the people . |
| 29 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 30 | My father was not pleased when he came back early or unexpectedly from the hospital and found that we were out drinking or talking to girls . |