Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could hardly be distinguished from ‘ good Pyrmont , or rather seltzer water ’ . |
| 2 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |
| 3 | The sitting-room has glazed sliding-front china cases , electrically lit on either side … the staircase window , or rather glass wall , has fringed curtains in green and white , illuminated from below at night time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm really into the Manchester , or rather North-West England , music scene at the moment , with the Stone Roses , Inspiral Carpets and especially the Charlatans . ’ |
| 5 | It is frequently not practicable to withhold benefits gained by the organization from non-joiners in the same area of activity ( wage increases or better working conditions , for example ) . |
| 6 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |
| 7 | If your target audience includes a substantial proportion of light viewers , but your campaign is on TV , you may need to supplement TV with suitable press or perhaps cinema advertising to reach this group . |
| 8 | The solution may be to use oestrogen cream , or perhaps hormone replacement therapy , for which you 'd need to see your doctor again . |
| 9 | And in the next musical sequence , the songs for Night , Mystery , Secrecy and Sleep , Purcell ignored the refrain — or perhaps da capo which the librettist had indicated for each song . |
| 10 | It was a day which saw the political demise of UDP man Ken Kerr and a poor showing for the Ulster Unionist party on the Waterside , where only group leader John Adams was re-elected , despite fielding four men . |
| 11 | I was unsteady on my feet , and my head felt like a leftover battlefield , but everything seemed to be in more or less working order . |
| 12 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 13 | He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps . |
| 14 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 15 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 16 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 17 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 18 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 19 | So , are all forty or so law amendments to be booted swiftly into touch ? |
| 20 | Only those couple or so spelling mistakes , was n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 22 | In the village of Dara , Rafiq is a legal businessman , one of 50 or so hashish traders operating side by side with the gun dealers . |
| 23 | In most of the state 's 900 or so water districts farmers often have priority in the use of water . |
| 24 | In Great Britain there are around 2300 census districts each in the charge of a census officer ( usually a member of the local registration staff ) who controls specially recruited enumerators — one for each of the 110 000 or so enumeration districts . |
| 25 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
| 26 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 27 | LET'S Enjoy Your Car Life ’ is the slogan written in big English letters to lure customers into Autobacs Seven 's 300 or so service stations . |
| 28 | Think instead about Quinta Paraiso da Mia , on the big sandy Luz Bay , just outside Lagos : a dozen or so apartment buildings linked by pathways in a shady garden , a minute 's walk from the beach . |
| 29 | Some 500 applications for Alpha machines are available now , and over 2,000 will be released in the near future by 1,000 or so software developers . |
| 30 | Just 30 miles or so south west of Bristol , Sedgemoor stretches from the Mendip Hills in the north to the Quantock Hills in the south . |