Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual attributions of guilt point to left or right often according to the ideological standpoint of the scholar — and , it must be stressed , the vision of history which this implies . |
| 2 | High Court Practice Direction of 18 December 1975 [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 669 should be followed so that the particulars of claim will state : " The rate current in London for the purchase of [ state unit of foreign currency ] at the close of business on the [ state date next or most nearly preceding the date of issue of summons ] was … to the £ sterling and at this rate the amount claimed , namely [ state the sum of foreign currency claimed ] amounts to £ … " . |
| 3 | These had left too many pupils of average ability or below either struggling with work beyond their abilities or following ‘ improvised ’ courses . |
| 4 | ( Just think of the whispers sweeping around the office when Jeremy or Karen are seen in the car-park adding — or better still subtracting — a logo or two . ) |
| 5 | We had originally intended to try our hand at clay pigeon shooting or perhaps even gliding , but our time was running out and there was still so much we wanted to see . |
| 6 | We had originally intended to try our hand at clay pigeon shooting or perhaps even gliding , but our time was running out and there was still so much we wanted to see . |
| 7 | So it remains to be seen whether we may have such a network , or perhaps even assuming that nearly all the cheap oil runs out , whether we might in fact manufacture petrol artificially from wood , coal , or gas , simply to provide the excellent fuel with its wonderful storage characteristics for long distance transport . |
| 8 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | And every pound lost means a patient untreated , in pain , or perhaps even dying . |
| 10 | The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied . |
| 11 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 12 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 13 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 14 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 15 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 16 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 17 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 18 | Result : defeat which left Neath effectively and more or less openly pulling against what Ryan perceived to be the national interest . |
| 19 | In conditions where this relationship is seen as more or less totally fulfilling , a child — or at any rate , a number of children — may be envisaged as interfering with it . |
| 20 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 21 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 22 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 23 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 24 | The adoral shields are long wing-like and flared distally separating or only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 25 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 26 | Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise . |
| 27 | The adoral shields are rectangular to wing-like just or not quite separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 29 | Such a pan usually arises at a depth of about six to ten inches , caused by digging ( or more frequently rotovating ) always to the same depth . |
| 30 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |