Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be a real person , such as their schoolteacher , or a character from a nursery rhyme book , such as Humpty Dumpty , Little Boy Blue or Little Miss Muffet . |
| 2 | Come join the poverty jet set , the generation without a name : Generation X. I 'm talking about my generation , or rather Douglas Coupland is in the hipster 's first novelette Generation X ( Abacus , £5.99 ) . |
| 3 | Back at Albert Square I hear Sharon , or rather Letitia Dean , will be playing Snow White in pantomime . |
| 4 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 5 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 6 | It did n't seem to occur to Mrs. Porter — or rather Mrs. Chalmers — ‘ |
| 7 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 8 | It could hardly be distinguished from ‘ good Pyrmont , or rather seltzer water ’ . |
| 9 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 10 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |
| 11 | The sitting-room has glazed sliding-front china cases , electrically lit on either side … the staircase window , or rather glass wall , has fringed curtains in green and white , illuminated from below at night time . ’ |
| 12 | Delayed for over four years , Nagisa Oshima 's Max Mon Amour features Charlotte Rampling indulging in extramarital horseplay , or rather between-the-sheets monkey business with her lover Max , a chimp . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm really into the Manchester , or rather North-West England , music scene at the moment , with the Stone Roses , Inspiral Carpets and especially the Charlatans . ’ |
| 14 | It is frequently not practicable to withhold benefits gained by the organization from non-joiners in the same area of activity ( wage increases or better working conditions , for example ) . |
| 15 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |
| 16 | If your target audience includes a substantial proportion of light viewers , but your campaign is on TV , you may need to supplement TV with suitable press or perhaps cinema advertising to reach this group . |
| 17 | The solution may be to use oestrogen cream , or perhaps hormone replacement therapy , for which you 'd need to see your doctor again . |
| 18 | Or perhaps Mrs A is holding forth on her views on battered wives or battery hens or baptizing babies , really with the hope of having a head-on argument or of converting someone to her way of thinking . |
| 19 | And in the next musical sequence , the songs for Night , Mystery , Secrecy and Sleep , Purcell ignored the refrain — or perhaps da capo which the librettist had indicated for each song . |
| 20 | The nearest known breeding-place is Bear Island , or perhaps Novaya Zemyla , the large island to the north of Siberia . |
| 21 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 22 | Looked at from the West , Franois Mitterrand or perhaps Karl-Otto Pohl , president of the Bundesbank , might seem more appropriate technocratic candidates . |
| 23 | Or perhaps Graham Mills was about to be named by the defector just before his murder . |
| 24 | Or perhaps Sir Peter was contemplating the reactions of the other half of the population , the female half . |
| 25 | The name robertianum may be derived from a medieval scholar Robert , Duke of Normandy , or perhaps St Robert who founded the Cistercian order of monks . |
| 26 | It was a day which saw the political demise of UDP man Ken Kerr and a poor showing for the Ulster Unionist party on the Waterside , where only group leader John Adams was re-elected , despite fielding four men . |
| 27 | I was unsteady on my feet , and my head felt like a leftover battlefield , but everything seemed to be in more or less working order . |
| 28 | so that erm more or less Salisbury Park are the people who really Th they said that whatever the decision , decision they make , they would fall in with them . |
| 29 | But then only Showaddywaddy , or perhaps Blondie , or especially Tony Stevens and his band , with their crazy covers of recent chartbusters could convert this isolated Irish apathy into something slightly lively . |
| 30 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |