Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be caused by the disordered packing of chains in the amorphous glassy phase , and a random distribution of the available free volume , or perhaps even by the random coil structure of the chain itself causing local environmental changes . |
| 2 | The controversy will disappear once all the member states introduce equivalent conduct of business rules but that is unlikely to be achieved in the short or perhaps even in the medium term . |
| 3 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 4 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 5 | Such a zone extends more or less continuously around the western , northern and eastern margins of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 6 | In a typical monogamous bird like the robin , the male and female stay more or less apart during the non-breeding season , and only pair up shortly before breeding . |
| 7 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 8 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 9 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 10 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 11 | Orcs exist more or less everywhere in the Old World , in the lands to the east , and in the far north western realm of Naggaroth beyond the Sea of Chaos . |
| 12 | The Popi is well situated for everything — it 's in the middle of the harbour area of Kos , only a kilometre or so away from the early nightlife and bars and very close to the late night discos . |
| 13 | The whole FI family would stay at the Sheraton in Buenos Aires and the Hilton in Sao Paulo while , between races , a majority of the drivers would take a week 's break at Guaruja on the Brazilian coast near Santos , an hour or so away from the smog-filled city of Sao Paulo . |
| 14 | Mrs Zamzam spoke slowly , a village woman speaking to a stranger , and without warning she stood up and went to her other room , returning a minute or so later with a rusting tin . |
| 15 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 16 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 17 | No outlaw would lurk so near a royal palace or so close to a powerful priory . ’ |
| 18 | No further colonization could be attempted while the war with Spain went on , partly because ships bound for the North American seacoast were forced by the prevailing winds to go uncomfortably far north or dangerously close to the Spanish settlement in the south , but interest revived after peace was made with Spain in 1604 . |
| 19 | Yet it is not enough merely to draw attention to the growth of what Marx called the ‘ light cavalry ’ of capitalism , without also observing a significant distinction within the developed countries ; or more precisely between the Old and New Worlds . |
| 20 | This may cause secondary rupture in the main pancreatic duct , the peritoneum , the retroperitoneum or more often in an adjacent viscus such as duodenum , stomach or transverse colon . |
| 21 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 22 | On the other hand , nationalist movements within industrial countries have had some success when they have been able to establish strong party organizations , as in the case of the Scottish National Party or the Parti Quebecois , or more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Largo Caballero was unwilling to move as far or as fast in an anti-revolutionary direction as his Communist , Republican and moderate Socialist colleagues wished . |
| 24 | But anyone can bypass their GP and go straight to an NHS GUM ( genito-urinary medicine ) clinic for immediate and confidential treatment — or even just for a sexual health ‘ MOT ’ between partners . |
| 25 | If somebody does that to me they 're right up my arse and something came like that , or even just on a single carriage road , or anything I 'd just touch my brake slightly |
| 26 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 27 | Windy ‘ sessions ’ blast day and night across the gulf for 2 to 6 days at a time , or even longer in the early and late seasons . |
| 28 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 29 | The hypothesis states that the form taken by any natural organised object or living thing , whether a crystal or an embryo , is not determined solely or indeed initially by the physical laws at present recognised by science . |
| 30 | It 's reckoned Swindon are too soft … not quick or hard enough for the premier league but few sides would have stopped the Anfield army at full charge … |