Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the replacement needs to be something desirable and/or less harmful than the original habit you are seeking to break . |
| 2 | Above all , the deprave-and-corrupt test carries the sense of something ‘ strikingly or importantly bad or evil ’ , to quote the words of an educationalist in The Times ( 1977 ) , who continued : |
| 3 | Every time I think about it I 'm either too busy or the weather 's too rotten , when I 'm not tired the weather 's pouring with rain or bitterly cold or . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's decision to immortalize his rule in stone , or rather concrete and imitation marble , made clear the anachronistic , even archaic nature of his rule . |
| 5 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 6 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 7 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 8 | As David Aers has skilfully shown , the merchant , the monk and the very language of the Shipman 's Tale do co-act at a general level to show a society where spiritual growth has been stunted , or rather deformed and directed away from an ideal moral and spiritual state . |
| 9 | For example , it is often the case that the essential characteristic of a " slave " is not that he is in a servile position or economically disadvantaged but that , not being a kinsman , he is denied the rights of a full human being . |
| 10 | John Smedley knitwear was given the Red Or Dead once-over and became mock-boy scout gear , while Russian babooshka doll prints on stretch velvet should be everywhere next summer . |
| 11 | By not feeling personally hurt or professionally inadequate when matters get worse despite one 's best efforts . |
| 12 | The fact that the sentences of ( 35 ) would be marginal or outright unacceptable if to be were omitted is in itself a datum worth taking into account , along with the further fact that to be can also be inserted into the statement forms in ( 33 ) . |
| 13 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 14 | Although in both groups the disease can be either indolent or slowly progressive and most cases had a non-aggressive course , in patients grouped as low grade/mixed grade the disease can last for years and in those grouped as high grade for months only , a difference that is almost significant . |
| 15 | Total immersion is impossible or extremely rare and few anthropologists go completely native : most guardedly keep their distance yet observe and participate sufficiently to allow them to study things in their context . |
| 16 | That alcoholism occurs in people who are weak-willed or morally degenerate or both . |
| 17 | The handsomest loafer was again made by Faith Royal — lighter & less clumpy than others , and with the all round sole extension . |
| 18 | If you are wondering , for instance , why The Instant Calorie and Fibre Chart lists only three quarters of an ounce of shredded wheat and then an ounce or more of other cereals , ask yourself whether you have ever seen anyone eat one and a quarter , or perhaps one and one third , shredded wheats … |
| 19 | But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did . |
| 20 | We hope to rejoin Nick Harris in a few minutes , we hope he 's able to speak with manager , Brian Horton or perhaps one or two of the players . |
| 21 | Add a little vanilla essence for vanilla buttercream ( about 1·25ml/¼tsp per 75g/3oz icing sugar ) , or perhaps orange or lemon juice for a citrus cream ( add 5ml/1tsp per 75g/3oz ) . |
| 22 | Sometimes it is just one food , or perhaps three or four , and this is yet another example of individuality . |
| 23 | There 's ample scope for extending an accommodation enterprise by devising farm walks and selling your own produce , or perhaps growing and marketing something new . |
| 24 | It could be a company where only two or three brokers can make markets in the shares . ’ |
| 25 | The Imperial survey had not cited a continent which was more or less populated than any of the others . |
| 26 | First , the tasks we carry out are not only more or less complex but they also become more complex as they separate out into discrete categories or types of complexity . |
| 27 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 28 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
| 29 | Some might call Connaught the Real Ireland , but I do n't see why turf-cutters are any more or less real than Midland golfers who cut a different kind of turf when they swing their clubs . |
| 30 | Is it more or less progressive if the exemption is raised from 2000 to 5000 ? |