Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadwell searched my face for comment , a flinch or little sneer perhaps . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman glares , or rather stares impassively , at me . |
| 3 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 4 | With just 10 minutes to go though , United lost , or rather threw away their win , when Sam Goodacre scored a soft second goal for Scuthorpe to make it 2-all . |
| 5 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 6 | How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé . |
| 7 | In Britain it would appear that the percentage of those aged 65 + defined as living in some form of institution has remained constant or perhaps decreased slightly . |
| 8 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 9 | Or perhaps amphetamine just gives you an insight into the world as it really is |
| 10 | This means that they must on no account fail us , just as , to take a different level , the woman whose beauty we find captivating must be seen to maintain her attractions : so much so that we ‘ will ’ her to display a beauty that she does not always possess , or perhaps has never possessed . |
| 11 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 12 | I 'm sorry , Henry , but I have written a paper , which I 'm planning to send to Tom Haines , which more or less says precisely this . |
| 13 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 14 | This time she more or less flew straight to me , and I felt confident enough to fly her another three or four times , each one successfully , although eventually I sensed she was losing interest , fretfully tearing at her jesses and gazing round . |
| 15 | LIM memory was more or less invented just for use with spreadsheets — the only memory hungry applications of the era . |
| 16 | The photographer 's glance alights on small details of foliage or suddenly sweeps upwards to the open sky . |
| 17 | ‘ Worn only once , or suddenly going abroad . |
| 18 | If the model is rotating , or apparently flying backwards , or you are in any doubt about what it is doing , apply some forward cyclic . |
| 19 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 20 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 21 | In contrast to this extensions within the last ten years or so have all been done in cheaper , light weight breeze blocks . |
| 22 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 23 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 24 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 25 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 26 | The next half-hour or so passed quietly but for the sound of happy munching and quaffing . |
| 27 | When they collect you will get the 20 per cent or so balance still owing . |
| 28 | Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally . |
| 29 | When he rested his voice , or only spoke normally , then the hoarseness disappeared . |
| 30 | A further complication is that some plants , especially foliage houseplants , seldom flower in this country , or only do so when many years old . |