Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 2 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 3 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 4 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 5 | A typical present might be a bomb , or rather a hand-grenade alarm clock . |
| 6 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 7 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
| 8 | And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released … |
| 9 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) Sub-sub-headings might have an underline in blue , or perhaps a dotted underline . |
| 11 | She is an applied artist , producing witty and colourful furniture , screens and floor cloths : her raw material could be an unpromising kitchen chair , c1955 , with plastic leather seat and sturdy legs , or perhaps a chain-store chest of drawers of dubious design . |
| 12 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 13 | At first Cottle was asked to consider a new edition of Poems on Various Subjects , or a volume of Wordsworth 's poems , or perhaps a joint edition of Osorio and The Borderers . |
| 14 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 15 | The research " team " is usually just a single individual , or perhaps a married couple , with maybe a local assistant . |
| 16 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 17 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 18 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 19 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 21 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 22 | Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern . |
| 23 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
| 24 | You will usually find that there is a favourite flower that you can use , or perhaps a particular colour , for a picture such as this . |
| 25 | Perhaps , say the researchers , a large-eyed person is assessed by an iguana as being nearer or larger than he or she really is , or perhaps a large-eyed person simply looks more threatening . |
| 26 | Without vowel points these words look identical : " Ip. " eleph is the ordinary word for " thousand " , but it can also be used in a variety of other senses : e.g. " family " ( Judges 6:15 , Revised Version ) or " clan " ( Zechariah 9:7 ; 12:5 , 6 , Revised Standard Version ) or perhaps a military unit . |
| 27 | ( b ) The battle in practice The first contact between contracting parties will normally be the sending out of a price list or catalogue , or perhaps a potential buyer 's request for an estimate or tender . |
| 28 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 29 | A strange man — or perhaps a plain man lost in a world where most other men had grown strange — collecting superlatives to himself as Saint Sebastian collected arrows in the wall-paintings . |
| 30 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |