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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.

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1	One way of coping with the dilemma of too much or too little bottom-up acoustic information is to use broad , and hopefully robust representation primitives initially to access a number of word hypotheses bottom-up and subsequently use a word verifier for more accurate matching and rating of the hypotheses against the input .
2	There is a need for daily or weekly watering of pot plants and the effect of too much or too little water is soon evident .
3	The hospital case notes of all referred patients were reviewed in detail , and the following information noted : ( 1 ) the referring Hospital ; ( 2 ) the referring clinical discipline ; ( 3 ) the patient 's symptoms and ‘ working ’ diagnosis ; ( 4 ) whether the clinician 's notes , before the gastric emptying study , indicated a prediction of abnormally rapid or abnormally slow gastric emptying ; ( 5 ) the influence of the result of the gastric emptying study upon the subsequent clinical management .
4	While it is forbidden to stipulate black or white , male or female , it is perfectly acceptable to restrict work to under 25s or under 30s .
5	that you can try and get them to say well is that sort of moderately vivid or very vivid or very very vivid or absolutely compelling just like real life or erm I , I do n't know what , what , what you 'd be able to do erm it 's obviously got ta be something that you can present orally
6	It was in that position that Alf was an important member of Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , when we climbed out of Division 4 in 1960–61 and , with his Cup-tie appearances , be comes one the group of only forty or so men to have played over 200 games for our club .
7	What I suggest to you is far more officers than the three you gave evidence of perhaps five or even the full six at some stage found their way into that master bedroom .
8	The landlady , a woman of around forty or so , appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday 's Ford and the high quality of my suit .
9	As Ayer said , ‘ what is required to verify a statement about a material thing is never the occurrence of precisely this or precisely that sense-content , but only the occurrence of one or other of the sense-contents that fall within a fairly indefinite range ’ ( Ayer , 1946 , p. 12 ) .
10	The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury .
11	Believe it or not , bachelors do tend to cultivate the art , when it 's a choice of either starving or else eating out every night , which can be very boring after a while .
12	Most exhibitionists are men , and exhibitionistic tendencies which occur in women usually take the form of overtly unintentional or deliberately daring dress or disarrangement of clothing .
13	He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry .
14	For in the company of over 200 or so other eager enthusiasts , I was able to pick up a few interesting little pieces .
15	The fact of around 100 or so ministerial appointments in the context of the demise of the independent members and the rise of the career politician gives the prime minister a " hold " over party colleagues because of his or her capacity to advance political careers .
16	One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked .