Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 2 | ‘ T is only the last mile or so I 'll have to travel alone and ‘ twill be dark then . |
| 3 | The optimum yield is not necessarily the theoretical yield or even the maximum possible yield . |
| 4 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 5 | Others are less successful and may get only a single female or even remain unmated . |
| 6 | They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up . |
| 7 | Continue to knit and , at about every eighth row or so , place your hands on this rolled up knitting and evenly , gently , pull down the work . |
| 8 | Always rehang the hooks about every twelfth row or so and never leave them in place if you have to leave the work . |
| 9 | It is not simply a legal issue or even a theological one . |
| 10 | You can see the cloud that brought today 's snow has been feeding up into the country from northern France and it will continue to do so for at least the next day or so . |
| 11 | The user can specify an issue number or use the default which is the latest version , and can specify an optional parameter allowing either the entire structure or just the root package to be read out . |
| 12 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |
| 13 | Naturally , the hatch unit should be made first , either the whole thing or just the carcass . |
| 14 | Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden . |
| 15 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |