Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 2 | When the chimney is in place keep picking up Wilma , who 'll be near the Burger Bar or somewhere down below . |
| 3 | He came from all over Macaw or somewhere down there he came from . |
| 4 | It is a fact , it 's not an opinion , it 's a fact , that in the mammalian species , males can be vastly more reproductively su successful , or vastly less reproductively successful than females . |
| 5 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 6 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 7 | Some things are more genuine than others , or rather more firmly rooted in evidence . |
| 8 | This distinction , between , as it were , having an existence , and possessing an identity , erm is a major preoccupation in the novel , just as finding answers to the questions ‘ Where am I ? ’ or rather more importantly ‘ Who am I ? ’ is one of its central objectives . |
| 9 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
| 10 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 11 | To some extent it is fair to ask who is the play 's author : the writer , the company or the director producing the play , or perhaps most properly a collaboration between these three ? |
| 12 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 13 | Suppose someone 's name is entered on the computer as having been convicted of prostitution in London and they report an assault in York or perhaps somewhere totally different . |
| 14 | Or perhaps not just near in her case . |
| 15 | ‘ Or perhaps not exactly that but … bitterness . ’ |
| 16 | Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity — or perhaps not quite . |
| 17 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |
| 18 | Idle — or perhaps not so idle — mention may be made on the radio news of a distant tropical depression known to be forming somewhere close to an exotic and encouragingly far away island — Yap , maybe , or Truk , or the northern Matianas . |
| 19 | Remarkably — or perhaps not so remarkably — Ungar 's mythic scotophobin had an amino-acid composition rather reminiscent of that of the endorphins and enkephalins . |
| 20 | It is curious , or perhaps not so curious , that a number of fundamental common law concepts in everyday use are still statutorily undefined , for example , murder , manslaughter , contract , defamation , negligence ( though the concept of duty of care was successfully defined in the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 ) . |
| 21 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 22 | But then the British — or perhaps more properly the English — deal best with their own . |
| 23 | It acts as a bridge between the natural and the synthetic systems giving greater biocompatibility , or perhaps more properly biotolerance , and confers membrane properties on the hydrogel , allowing transport of oxygen and water soluble metabolites through the polymer matrix . |
| 24 | Other approaches are marginalized as being ‘ theoretical ’ ( that is , not sufficiently practical ) or perhaps more properly the concern of another discipline . |
| 25 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 27 | For example the baby being born prematurely or perhaps more drastically the need for a Caesarian to be carried out . |
| 28 | Drawing on research by Nordenstam ( 1979 ) , Rogers ( 1981 ) and Trudgill ( 1982 ) , Trudgill reaches the conclusion that the fixed route of acquisition is confined to adults , or perhaps more probably to adolescents . |
| 29 | If you change your beliefs but your life stays the same and you feel the same , then you have n't really changed those beliefs , or perhaps more deeply rooted beliefs are blocking you . |
| 30 | He declared that Scott 's design would be ‘ a great ornament to the metropolis ’ and believed that ‘ it would be as convenient , or perhaps more so , than any Italian building that could be erected ’ . |