Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 2 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The story is constructed in such a way that each group gets different information , or perhaps a different version of the same story . |
| 12 | This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 15 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 16 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 19 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 20 | Impact attitudes can vary from a skimming ground contact with a wreckage trail up to one kilometre long , such as the Turkish DC-10 near Paris , or merely a deep crater with pieces of wreckage scattered in every direction round it , as when a BEA Vanguard crashed vertically into the ground in Belgium in October 1971 . |
| 21 | In these studies , in common with many others , it has not been possible to discover if the change was a primary defect or merely a secondary effect of the disease process . |
| 22 | Is it a new remedy , or just a new gimmick on the market ? |
| 23 | Then cleanse your face again and splash with cool water or just a refreshing toner on cotton wool . |
| 24 | Will this shot of Springbok lock Adri Geldenhuys come to symbolise the big lift-off for South Africa — or just a temporary reprieve from sporting isolation ? |
| 25 | A wooden counter with a couple of filing cabinets underneath , preferably on castors for easy manoeuvrability would be one excellent idea ; or just a flip-down panel from a wall would be another . |
| 26 | But in this very satisfaction lies the difficulty that for twenty years or more a good deal of self-esteem and affirmation has depended upon the parenting role . |
| 27 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 28 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 29 | Explaining this generation-skipping will require new physical theories ; those should provide pointers towards a grand unified theory of the strong , weak and electromagnetic forces , or even a substantial portion of the GUT itself . |
| 30 | It was n't an act of vanity , or even a professional kind of analysis ; it was more with the unease of a person who picks up something familiar and finds that , at some unrealised point in the recent past , it has somehow been exchanged for the property of a stranger . |