Example sentences of "[adv] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 2 | A minor fault prevents the cannon firing this turn , perhaps the fuse is not set properly or maybe the crewmen mishandle the loading procedure . |
| 3 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 4 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 5 | More than 40 per cent of the output is exported to overseas markets : the equivalent of over 300 million pints annually or almost a million a day . |
| 6 | mm , eventually , hopefully somebody will come along or hopefully the blood will , the blood will slow down enough |
| 7 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 8 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 9 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 10 | Also ships carrying dangerous cargoes in sensitive waters , for example an area similar to where the went ashore or perhaps the Dover Straits where cargo collisions have been reduced by eighty percent since radar surveillance was introduced . |
| 11 | A sudden change of éaulement , an unusual turn in-out of legs or arms , or quick jumps up and then down to the floor followed by a roll over or even a somersault can accentuate the particular place that unusual movement has in the whole design . |
| 12 | Having flagged the issue and fired the interest of the minister , the Bank duo returned to the cooler , more workman-like atmosphere of life in Nairobi almost certain that sooner or later a project would go to the Bank board , and that it would almost certainly be approved . |
| 13 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 14 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 15 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 16 | Sooner or later a woman will show her true nature . |
| 17 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 18 | Even I was pelted with a couple of little pointed things from the TV Times and was heard to admit that ‘ awards are like haemorrhoids — sooner or later every bum gets one ’ . |
| 19 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 20 | If you do that , he wrote , then sooner or later the will will crack and the truth will emerge , reality will re-assert itself . |
| 21 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 22 | However unless birth control methods are used , sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant . |
| 23 | Then , sooner or later the ‘ Greedy League ’ will realise what an asset they have lost . |
| 24 | Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out . |
| 25 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 26 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 27 | Sooner or later the diaries are published , and another military reputation is destroyed . ’ |
| 28 | Sooner or later The Course of Time it 'll |
| 29 | Sooner or later the cat will win and wear down its owner 's resolve . |
| 30 | Charlemagne 's throne , which may still be seen in the basilica at Aachen , gave all the kings of western Europe sooner or later the idea of regarding a throne as an essential symbol of royal greatness . |