Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative . |
| 2 | Whether he had in mind a reduction in the Royalty , or perhaps a contribution towards the cost of the trials , is not clear . |
| 3 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 4 | DAY 4 : Time for last minute shopping or perhaps a visit to the Rijksmuseum to see the Night Watch by Rembrandt or the Van Gogh Museum to see a vast array of the master 's work . |
| 5 | Or perhaps a visit to the Fontana di Trevi . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , helping out with the dreary road and fitness work could result in you being offered a day 's hunting or perhaps a ride around a hunter trial or whatever . |
| 7 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 8 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 9 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 10 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 11 | Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address . |
| 12 | But WAS it art , or just a bit of a damp squib ? |
| 13 | Or just a trick of the morning light ? |
| 14 | The whole town knew he was silent as the tomb , a man of deep thoughts , none of them revealed ; or possibly a man of no thoughts at all . |
| 15 | Other aromas conjure up pleasant memories of first love perhaps , or possibly a visit to a well-loved grandmother who always smelled of lavender-water . |
| 16 | Graphical treatment suggests that this effect is linear over an interval between the blackout and whiteout points , or possibly a curve with a fairly large radius of curvature . |
| 17 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 18 | Ashbourne had about 25 yards , whose houses provided shelter for some 750 people , or nearly a quarter of the town 's inhabitants . |
| 19 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 20 | Thank you letters from the children themselves , a note from the teacher outlining the benefits of the visit , or even a sample of the work produced as a result of the visit will be extremely welcome . |
| 21 | WITH the latest appalling upsurge in violence , both loyalist and republican , thoughts of peace or even a breakthrough in the political stalemate seem far removed from the grim reality . |
| 22 | There may be a case for downward movement inside the ERM as the French achieved in the mid-1980s , or even a case for a one-off devaluation as the Swedes undertook in 1982 . |
| 23 | They may be wise as an owl , slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass . |
| 24 | Take a hot bath/shower Or treat yourself to a sauna or even a session in a beauty salon ! |
| 25 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 26 | Try a bit of horse riding , or even a ride in a horse drawn trap . |
| 27 | There are many reasons why we eat — and a number of them have nothing whatsoever to do with hunger or even a liking for a particular type of food . |
| 28 | What was new was that skinheads appeared to be not a continuation of a trend , but a change of emphasis or even a reversal in the development of style . |
| 29 | Seeing the Houses of Parliament , or even a debate in the Chamber , does not explain how we are governed . |
| 30 | Tribrachidium has been attributed to the trilobozoans ( a possible group of early cnidarians ) or alternatively a proto-echinoderm with the tri-radial symmetry preceding the penta-radial arrangement of most later echinoderms . |