Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 2 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 3 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 4 | If the RC needle moves left or right in the opposite direction from which the wind is coming , then your drift allowance is too large . |
| 5 | But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion . |
| 6 | ‘ The one thing my father likes about me , or rather about the only thing he is n't directly rude about , is my hair ! ’ |
| 7 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 8 | They considered , inter alia , the arguments in favour of a trial by jury in these cases ; whether there are types of cases which could be dealt with effectively or justly outside the criminal justice system ; and also whether there should be a properly structured system of plea bargaining with proper safeguards . |
| 9 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 10 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 11 | There are far too few illustrations for the size of the volume : ideally a dictionary of this size should contain many more , displayed in either date , alphabetical or country order , or perhaps in a comparative sequence . |
| 12 | While the basic aim of a service should be to provide people with ordinary homes of their own , there are many former long-term hospital patients who would not wish to live alone after many years of living in close proximity to other patients ; such people may feel more comfortable living in a three- or four-person flat or house , or perhaps in a sheltered group of flatlets where communal dining rooms and recreational facilities echo the arrangements in ordinary sheltered accommodation for elderly people . |
| 13 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 14 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
| 15 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 16 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , for the traditional printing and graphic arts industries , the desktop publishing ‘ revolution ’ has taken place largely outside their control and has placed the capability to generate complex artwork directly in the hands of anyone with access to a computer and around £1,000 or less for the necessary software . |
| 18 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 19 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 20 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |
| 21 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |
| 22 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 23 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 24 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
| 25 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 26 | As indicated above , most of the information which has been gathered on Roman Rochester concerns the defences , which have now been identified more or less round the whole circuit , and which enclose an area of some 9.5 ha ( 23 acres ) . |
| 27 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 28 | And er wash the cups and And he used to have to go running er down with messages down to or down to the head office rather that we had an office in where where our fitting shop was where there was a draughtsman 's office . |
| 29 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 30 | However , I would take issue with her view that the U.K. has been ‘ failing ’ economically or militarily in the recent past compared to the U.S. Economically it 's certainly not true , some examples : |