Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 2 | Many children and teenagers ‘ earn ’ their rides by mucking out , grooming , cleaning tack or perhaps leading beginners in return for the occasional free ride . |
| 3 | Abrashes are usually found in monadic and village items , where only small amounts of yarn can be dyed at any one time , and are not a sign of inadequate craftsmanship . |
| 4 | Before that , all ‘ gases ’ were considered to be more or less pure samples of air . |
| 5 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 6 | The network of person-to-person relationships formula thus refers to sets of rights and duties which find expression in more or less predictable patterns of behaviour . |
| 7 | The result of these was that the areas covered by the ice and adjacent to the margins of the ice sheets experienced more or less regular successions of climate , ranging from glacial through periglacial to humid temperate in the glaciated areas and from periglacial to humid temperate in areas near the ice sheets . |
| 8 | Opinion polls are more or less inaccurate measures of voting intentions . |
| 9 | The changed nature of business — the shift to corporate organization and the break between the location and ownership of industry — means that old , more or less direct methods of incorporation on the Victorian model can not be sustained or renewed . |
| 10 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 11 | Intuit Inc , Menlo Park , California developer of the Quicken household budgeting program , got its initial public offering of 1.5m shares , 1m of them new , away at $20 a share and plans to use the $19m or so net proceeds for capital expenditure , working capital and product development . |
| 12 | The company will use the $14m or so net proceeds for capital expenditures , debt repayment and working capital . |
| 13 | Superconductor Technologies Inc , developing high temperature superconductor thin film for the magnetic resonance imaging cellular communications and high speed computing markets in Santa Barbara , California got its initial public offering of 1.5m new shares away at $10.00 per share and plans to use the $14m or so net proceeds for research and development , capital equipment , repayment of capital leases and working capital . |
| 14 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 15 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 16 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |
| 17 | This comprises , quite simply , one or more pieces of paper on which are typed details of forthcoming gigs , record releases or just general bits of news and information relating to individual artists . |
| 18 | — conducted by the Casework Committee or specially selected interviewers in borderline cases . |
| 19 | Repetitive waves — namely , two or more separate peaks in response to a single swallow are also generally believed to be abnormal . |
| 20 | A permanent gathering of fabric achieved by drawing up material along two or more parallel lines of stitching , or over cords or thin rods threaded through casings or rod pockets . |
| 21 | Statistics of the structure of employment in the area are misleading because of the large numbers of crofters with two or more part-time sources of employment . |
| 22 | A wren sings a song with twenty or more distinct notes per second . |
| 23 | Metaphor operates in her fiction as a structural principle ; it provides the means of bringing two or more disparate fields of knowledge into a relation which organizes thoughts and events . |
| 24 | Would fun events be attractive or the chance of coaching or single boat evens ( everybody must use a single design of boat ) or more practice areas or multiple stage events or more varied courses with limbo gates , roll ropes and sliding starts like Paddles Up ? |
| 25 | After two or more good seasons in succession , predatory birds become markedly more plentiful . |
| 26 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 27 | ‘ A rough estimate is that an OFR as proposed might require 10 or more printed pages of information … |
| 28 | They mistakenly believe they have got a God given right to survive and prosper , regardless of the state of the nation , the latest jobs crisis or more mundane matters like League standing . |
| 29 | So in order to produce 2400 kcals of chemical energy in the form of organic molecules , you would need anything from about 40 to 100 or more square metres of land in Britain , and somewhat less than this in the USA . |
| 30 | 2–2½ lb Cox or other sharp but sweet dessert apples 1½ tbsp lemon juice and the zest of 1½ lemons 1 dozen or more thin slices of bread cut from a crusty French loaf or bloomer butter , golden syrup and demerara sugar |