Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 2 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 3 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 4 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
| 5 | They were all here , or rather the outward appearance of what was them was here . |
| 6 | And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released … |
| 7 | She is an applied artist , producing witty and colourful furniture , screens and floor cloths : her raw material could be an unpromising kitchen chair , c1955 , with plastic leather seat and sturdy legs , or perhaps a chain-store chest of drawers of dubious design . |
| 8 | At first Cottle was asked to consider a new edition of Poems on Various Subjects , or a volume of Wordsworth 's poems , or perhaps a joint edition of Osorio and The Borderers . |
| 9 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 10 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 11 | Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern . |
| 12 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 13 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |
| 14 | The story is constructed in such a way that each group gets different information , or perhaps a different version of the same story . |
| 15 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |
| 16 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 17 | This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets . |
| 18 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 19 | The implication for teaching is that texts or situations should not be devised where only the next level of ‘ difficulty ’ is provided , since these are not necessary . |
| 20 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 21 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 22 | I remained a TV reporter , doing more or less the same kind of interviews as for TWW . |
| 23 | It was something I wanted to do , but i I did n't know that until it started to happen , and then with the removal business too it 's more or less the same kind of thing . |
| 24 | The ‘ heavies ’ all carried more or less the same picture of a statuesque blonde , at first sight naked , standing on the rostrum , her arm outstretched in the direction of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen , whose incredulous , even leery expression , was later to be the cause of much hilarity . |
| 25 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 26 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 27 | They wear more , more or less the same sort of er material through the year . |
| 28 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 29 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 30 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |