Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tight-fitting cover or better still cling film will help reduce the deaths because cold draughts seem to be partly to blame . |
| 2 | Maria stared at him standing there , discovering that he looked slightly drawn , while there was a hotness to his eyes now , as if fever or perhaps simply fatigue afflicted him . |
| 3 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 4 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 5 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 6 | Yet we go on and on , driven by some creative demon , or perhaps even vanity , but the cost may be high . |
| 7 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 8 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 9 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 10 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 11 | It is believed that they migrated to central Italy from Asia Minor or possibly further east in the eighth century B.C. ; remaining dominant and independent until the third century B.C. after which they were gradually Latinised under Roman rule . |
| 12 | This should not lead us in turn , however , to ignore the impact of industrialisation or more generally proletarianisation on sexual mores . |
| 13 | ‘ Although only heaven or more probably hell knows why I must , ’ he murmured unevenly , apparently as an addendum to the words that had been dragged from him just before he kissed her . |
| 14 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 15 | Glue ear , or more precisely otitis media with effusion , is the major cause of hearing problems in children . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the Goths drove the Britons from Bourges , but the comes ( count or more precisely companion ) Paul , who led a force of Romans and Franks , attacked the Goths and took their booty . |
| 17 | First , age , or more precisely proximity to the state-pension age , had an important bearing on early retirement . |
| 18 | A PAC is a group representing some interest such as labour or more specifically abortion or gun control . |
| 19 | The HSE 's propensity ( or more realistically reluctance ) to prosecute , except as a last resort or where there is no alternative , is well-known and is touched on by Phil James in ‘ Reforming British Health and Safety Law : a framework for discussion ’ ( 1992 ) 21 Industrial Law Journal 83–105 , together with the related area of penalties . |
| 20 | The same problem exists with touchstones , or more accurately basanite or lydite , which is a flinty jasper or finely crystalline quartzite , black or dark grey in colour , used to test gold-silver alloys for their gold content . |
| 21 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 22 | Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels . |
| 23 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 24 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 25 | The activities reserved for persons protected by the Act of 1988 were not exclusively or even predominantly fishing activities . |
| 26 | Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism . |
| 27 | She toyed with the idea of Yorkshire or even further south but was persuaded by Louise that it would be a mistake to make Constance change schools at that point , just before her School Certificate examination . |
| 28 | In the short term , Miliband and Poulantzas argue , the dominant class might lose out to reformist political movements , or even genuinely revolution working-class movements , but in the end these attacks on the nature of the capitalism by a reformist and pluralistic state would be defeated due to structural and ideological constraints operating to preserve capitalism . |
| 29 | Nicholas stood stock-still , in a condition of protest , thought or even possibly refusal . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh aah , it be that all right m'dear , you 'm grow leaves if you drink enough of it . ’ |