Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blonde woman fashionably dressed in half-mourning , wearing a violet gown , her hair dressed high under a huge picture hat trimmed with a bird of paradise in full flight , rose to meet them , or rather to meet Dr Neil . |
| 2 | Therefore , he needed third place or better to hurdle Norman 's total of $1,165,477 . |
| 3 | He dedicated books to L. Censorinus , consul 149 , and to the poet Lucilius : he praised or perhaps adulated Scipio Aemilianus about 140 . |
| 4 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 5 | I think that 's what more or less decided Geoff that , yeah , he would take it . |
| 6 | The man either feared or greatly respected Michael Collins . |
| 7 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 8 | But do n't stop smiling , or so will I. ’ |
| 9 | Steadily , then , over the two years or so following Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship , together with Sir David Cardinal , who became his closest ally during that time , succeeded in gathering together a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist . |
| 10 | National Trust properties on this circuit of seven miles or so include Cookham Moor , Harding 's Green , and Cockmarsh — which gives you an idea of how attractive the area is . |
| 11 | Under pressure from the Serbian government , and sometimes violent attack by the 10,000 or so armed Serb toughs in the province , up to 100,000 people may have left Kosovo in the past couple of years . |
| 12 | Perhaps Connon decided he would like to marry Gwen Evans or just unmarry Mary Connon . |
| 13 | It could either launch an offensive against Khiva or gradually pacify Kazakhstan by constructing forts and attempting to persuade Khiva that its behaviour was ill judged . |
| 14 | True , the disease would sooner or later reach Norway after travelling up through Finland , but the Norwegian government had decided to stall it as long as possible . |
| 15 | A new Pax Europa or even Pax Japanica is difficult to envisage for all sorts of historical and geopolitical reasons . |
| 16 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
| 17 | Planning to murder both witnesses , thought Karelius , they had n't bothered to devise too convincing a story , or even change Fedorov 's name . |
| 18 | I could ABAB ABAB or even ABAB CDCD . |
| 19 | And he had never yet directly addressed Melanie by her name or even acknowledged Victoria 's presence . |
| 20 | Another nanny beat Diana on the head with a wooden spoon if she was naughty or alternatively banged Charles and Diana 's heads together . |
| 21 | Subsequent reports indicated that the IAEA in a separate classified report to the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar had identified around 12 companies , mostly German , which had directly or indirectly supplied Iraq with nuclear-weapons related material . |
| 22 | Or or indeed does Mr want to come in on vacancies ? |
| 23 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |
| 24 | My parents once or twice mentioned Fatty Arbuckle , seemingly a Hollywood scandal before I was born . |
| 25 | However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes . |
| 26 | Thus at the top and bottom of the scale all is well , be it at Sheffield , Wakefield or newly amalgamated Roundhay and Headingley , now in the shape of the new Leeds club — or , at the other end , such as Yorkshire Copper Works , Wath upon Dearne or Wetherby . |
| 27 | Paul , 21 , broke down in tears when he was asked at the Old Bailey if he intended to kill or seriously injure Oxford graduate John Lavender . |
| 28 | He then leaned forward and , looking straight to camera , continued : ‘ Except that little weasel Fletcher . |
| 29 | Our previous study showed that subcutaneously injected SOD was predominantly localised in extracellular compartments , and our present study showed that the SOD activity in intracellular compartments of the ratstomach did not increase after the subcutaneous injection of human SOD . |
| 30 | The interesting finding of the study , which you did not mention , was that there were differences in pre-buyout performance between companies that successfully underwent LBOs and those that failed . |