Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These techniques were based on theories of human motivation related more or less closely to the work of Maslow ( 1943 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ it came into being not as an essential part of a theory of the law of contract but more or less fortuitously as an expedient adopted in order to determine when persons injured by the breach of a promise ought to be allowed to bring an action ’ ( paragraph 18 of the 6th interim report of the Law Revision Committee , 1937 Cmd. 5449 ) |
| 11 | The business of designing machines , processes and systems can be pursued more or less independently of the properties of people . |
| 12 | They are not the " easy to move " people , they are not people who can live more or less independently in the Community . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Far to the south , Britons tucked into curry and mulligatawny soup , both transliterated more or less straight from the language of Madras . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Suppose a propensity to react more or less negatively to the environment is inherited , but is also affected by environmental circumstances . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The first change , the move to theism , happened in 1929 and coincided more or less directly with the death of his father . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |