Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this is slight or uniformly even no problems arise . |
| 2 | Preferably wear a skirt or culottes with loose underwear made from natural fibres or better still no underwear at all . |
| 3 | Having your neck and shoulders rubbed , or better still a full body massage , is a good investment . |
| 4 | This in the main was from following the pipeline in Mespot to Damascus , or better still a rough track from Baghdad to Damascus , linked by a series of emergency landing grounds , staged on their way to Egypt . |
| 5 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 6 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 7 | It seemed to me that no one really took us seriously , or perhaps both the Cutter Service and the Investigation Division were still getting their acts together . |
| 8 | When you are tackling a larger area — a whole wall , or perhaps even a complete room — you use exactly the same techniques ; the big difference is the sheer scale of the job , which makes the preliminary setting-out by far the most important part . |
| 9 | The next book must break new ground , provide new insights , provide a new way of looking , or perhaps even a way of re-seeing the familiar . |
| 10 | Indeed Jacob values settlements sufficiently to suggest that a power , or perhaps even a duty , should be imposed on the court to promote a settlement or compromise between the parties . |
| 11 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 12 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 13 | As the Lord Chancellor indicated when the Bill was in committee , the provision was deliberately tailored to meet those exceptional cases involving ‘ the sort of invention which may revolutionise a company or perhaps even a whole industry ’ |
| 14 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 15 | There is a small stone ‘ seat ’ running the length of both walls , but the most important piece of masonry within the building is a stone slab in the centre of the nave that might be an old tomb or perhaps even the site of an old altar . |
| 16 | As I remember , I was even readier to advance in class the theories of , for instance , F. L. Lucas on the decline of the Romantic ideal , or E.M.Y. Tillyard on poetry direct and oblique , while suspecting that none of the other girls ( or perhaps even the teachers ) had read the books in question . |
| 17 | The General could be a High Elf Prince or perhaps even the Phoenix King himself . |
| 18 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 19 | But other writers or perhaps even the same writers in other contexts , were concerned with institutional differences , varieties of law , of systems of government , of property relations , of forms of the family . |
| 20 | The changes brought about by electronically based information technology are so fundamental that , for the historian at least , they must be equated with the invention and spread of printing or perhaps even the initial development of the written record . |
| 21 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 22 | Consciousness of this fact , plus a desire to court moderate Republican opinion , ensured that early rebel pronouncements were limited to vague calls for the prevention of left-wing revolution , the maintenance of national unity and the restoration of authority ; beyond that it remained unclear whether the rising , if successful , would produce a conservative , more authoritarian republic , a monarchist restoration , a military dictatorship or perhaps even an out-and-out fascist state . |
| 23 | Some hours before the train is due to leave , a bullock-cart , or camel-cart , or perhaps even an elephant-lorry , arrives at the bungalow , and takes the whole of the load to the station , in charge of the head ‘ boy ’ . |
| 24 | If you were to examine the work you may not find any faults , or perhaps just a few minor ones which ‘ do n't really matter ’ . |
| 25 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 26 | A word , or perhaps just a certain pronunciation of a word , may not be contained in the lexicon . |
| 27 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 28 | This leaves just the name and the logo , or perhaps just the logo at the top of the sheet . |
| 29 | The pauses had lengthened and Swod 's eyelids drooped more and more frequently , due to fatigue , boredom or perhaps just the sunshine breaking through the clouds and sending the odd flash through the window . |
| 30 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |