Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred . |
| 2 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 3 | Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure . |
| 4 | Short hair or long hair or just a man ? |
| 5 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
| 6 | The production of a single cost figure per contract or even a very limited split of , say , labour , materials and expenses , is not particularly helpful to the surveying or management staff , although of course better than nothing . |
| 7 | Have they become a ruling elite or even a new ruling class ? |
| 8 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 9 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 10 | Possibly it might have something to do with interoperability at the class library level or maybe a little something for OMG 's next RFT on services . |
| 11 | But pointing out limitations in a writer can sometimes seem arrogant , or at least condescending , as in this extract : At times Eliot is too confusing , too abstract and too well read , but his poems initially only demand a first response or simply an appreciation of the words , their structure , sound and order . |
| 12 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 13 | To celebrate the arrival of two notables in town , I approached the mayor , well known for his Butchers Arms , and asked him to send a joint off the Old Dun Cow or even a Bulls Head . |
| 14 | They will also depend upon the generic strategies being adopted for the SBU or even the product line . |
| 15 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 16 | Souness admitted : ‘ The temptation is to give him some sort of outing whether it 's half an hour or even a half . |
| 17 | Whether for an hour or even a full day , once you step on board it 's all hands on deck as crew members don their lifejackets and take to the seas in the adventure of a lifetime . |
| 18 | After an hour or more the dancing stops . |
| 19 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 20 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 21 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 23 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 24 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 25 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 26 | And there clearly are situations in which the collective opinion of a majority or even a dominant minority puts an unacceptable and sometimes intolerable pressure on the dissenting or deviant minority or individual . |
| 27 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 28 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 29 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 30 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |