Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there tasks in which children partly or wholly fail to understand the language which the teacher is using ? |
| 2 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 3 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 4 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 5 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |
| 6 | Too much nitrogen encourages an abundance of leaf tissue that is not balanced by enhanced root activity to support it , or enough potash to keep the plant structure hard . |
| 7 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 8 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 9 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 10 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 11 | The unsavoury bickering between Transvaal President Dr. Luis Luyt , the ANC and the SARFU over whether or not playing the anthem broke a formal agreement or not tended to cloud the issue . |
| 12 | Are you starting from scratch or just hoping to re-style an existing room ? |
| 13 | Eventually , however , those commanders still loyal tot he Shah ( or still hoping to resist the imposition of Islamic government ) produced a series of plans for a military take-over . |
| 14 | Few organizations however formally acknowledge it , or deliberately try to develop the coaching role . |
| 15 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 16 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 17 | The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter … |
| 18 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 19 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 20 | ‘ Suppose Edward does gain Berwick , my lords , and advances northwards — what then ? or even decides to leave the town untaken behind him , but surrounded , as he might ? ’ |
| 21 | Whether the employee makes a profit , or even decides to exercise the option , obviously depends on how the company 's share price performs . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the public inquiry commands the attention of large and powerful organisations which would like to disregard or even try to belittle the findings of an inspector 's report if it commented unfavourably on activities for which those organisations had responsibility . |
| 23 | The whole affair , however , was symptomatic of the consistent refusal of planning staffs to understand or even try to appreciate the potential of the SAS , encamped within easy striking distance of the enemy 's lines of communication . |
| 24 | Or even getting to see the T-shirts . |
| 25 | Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction . |
| 26 | She said an expert believed the trolleys could have cut the brake pipes on the train or even have caused a derailment . |
| 27 | Or even have prevented the war entirely ? |
| 28 | Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours . |
| 29 | Marx believes that the individual is socially constructed but never provides or even attempts to provide the theory of knowledge which could support his claims . |
| 30 | A loop of string or even thread securing a door or a wooden chest could be ‘ locked ’ with a lump of clay stamped with the owner 's personal seal . |