Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Bethnal Green has many points of similarity with a village , or rather with a whole series of overlapping and interlocking villages . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Therefore , the company are to seek sponsorships and would welcome any enquiries now or perhaps at a later date when the industrial climate improves . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
17 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
18 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
19 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
20 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
21 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
22 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
23 | Drowsiness is first indicated by a reduction in the frequency of alpha rhythm , from about 10Hz to 8.5Hz or so In a young adult , as well as a reduction in its amplitude , and then by its disappearance . |
24 | A perfect way to serve them is in a tart of shortcrust pastry , mixed with three or four free-range eggs and plenty of sugar , and baked for half an hour or so in a medium-hot oven . |
25 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
26 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
27 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
28 | There was an unresolved discussion in the case as to whether the lessee continued liable for the entire rent or merely for an apportioned part of it , which is all that the plaintiff claimed . |
29 | The institution of monarchy thus dominated the political horizon , whether it was thought of in terms of Divine Right or merely as a secular institution guaranteeing civil peace and security . |
30 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |