Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many corpses , or rather fossils of corpses , were found by the excavators in the ash . |
| 2 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 3 | They are showing there is no substitute for experience and the only disappointment for Tranmere at the moment is the crowd , or rather lack of it . |
| 4 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
| 5 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 6 | The future or rather fate of Gloucester rugby club could be decided at Bristol tomorrow … there are two league games to go and the cherry and whites need to win one of them to escape relegation |
| 7 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 8 | The law does not , however , regard such societies ( unless formally incorporated ) as having any corporate personality ; it sees only individuals , owning property , it may be , in common , with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract , or rather series of contracts , to be found in the society 's rules ; for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied . |
| 9 | To sum up then , according to the so-called unorthodox view , the company , or rather individuals on the conglomerate 's behalf , deals on either inside information acquired in the course of business about another company , for example , an investment banking client on the verge of announcing an increase in expected profits ; or on information ‘ leaked ’ by one arm of the conglomerate about a long or short position it has taken as market maker on specific shares and which it would like to off-load into the accounts of customers in the conglomerate 's fund management arm . |
| 10 | Bishop of Gibraltar , or rather Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe as he 's called nowadays , ’ supplied the Archdeacon . |
| 11 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 12 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 13 | As far as he was concerned , homosexuality did not exist north of Hampstead ( or perhaps south of it , either ) and despite the fact that its local manifestation was sitting in front of him he would not be convinced . |
| 14 | Perhaps the cosmological density is well below the critical value ( despite the anticipation of theorists ) or perhaps models of cosmological nucleosynthesis must be revised ( as some people have already asserted ) . |
| 15 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 16 | But in the context of a consideration of judicial creativity , or perhaps lack of it , the selection of the judiciary and their ‘ politics ’ in the sense used by Professor Griffith seem to be marginal considerations . |
| 17 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 18 | This low incidence of visual handicap means , in effect , that not every local education authority in England and Wales will have a range of appropriate educational placements for the severely visually impaired pupil , and it may be necessary to look for a solution in regional terms , or perhaps attendance at a residential special school may be considered . |
| 19 | No doubt " and emptiness " adds a further precision or perhaps elaboration to the of line A ; that is to say , to the idea of ignorable non-existence is added that of chaotic absence of form . |
| 20 | I was looking for a business venture worthy of my silver , some trade across the Narrow Seas or perhaps commerce with the Baltic . |
| 21 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 22 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 23 | Under the original proposal for the flow of financial resources measurement focus , the line was drawn between monetary assets and non-monetary assets , where only changes in monetary assets affected the operating statement . |
| 24 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 25 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 26 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 27 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 28 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 29 | He chose the city of Selma , Alabama , to dramatize the issue — a city where the blacks outnumbered whites , but where only 3% of blacks were registered voters against 97% of the white inhabitants . |
| 30 | Of the 370 or so firms to which Barclays is lending under the scheme , about 50 are developing new technologies . |