Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to understand the workings of ecclesiastical power , it is necessary to consider it in context , or rather in two contexts ; the relations of a bishop with the king and with the leading figures of the diocese . |
| 2 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 3 | Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights . |
| 4 | What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 . |
| 5 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 6 | Its main potential would seem to lie in its use by individuals working alone or perhaps in small groups , and this requires a very different approach to materials design . |
| 7 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 8 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 9 | It is as though these translators were each construing the poem by supplying a vocabulary reflecting a personal perception of the poet 's intention — or perhaps in some cases caught from other translators . |
| 10 | Doubtful tuning here and there is also a reservation to be found in Nilsson 's Four Last Songs , recorded in 1970 when the Swedish soprano was more or less in pristine form . |
| 11 | In my films the conductor is more or less in one position throughout . |
| 12 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 13 | All those I had loved in the past — Richard , Marjorie , Alain , Madeleine , Leo , Muriel , Alan , Sandro , Erich , Jordi — all loved more or less in vain , hopelessly — were now without substance or meaning . |
| 14 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 15 | A very small proportion of sufferers thought that it was due to previous surgery ( 28 , 7% ) or to muscle weakness , anxiety , infection , overweight ( 14 ( 3% ) or less in each case ) . |
| 16 | He had insisted on the whole sequence being shown again and , indeed , it was to appear , more or less in full , that evening in every national television news bulletin . |
| 17 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 18 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 19 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 20 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 21 | The R S P C A more or less in this borough is erm . |
| 22 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 23 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 24 | My first contact with the BBC came in the person of Lance Sieveking , a fastidious producer who came to Canada on loan to CBC , and spent a week or so in each of the regions . |
| 25 | We also know that there are over 3,000 centenarians now in Great Britain , compared with a couple of hundred or so in 1950 . |
| 26 | In its annual World Economic Outlook , published at the recent Washington meeting of the IMF and World Bank , the Fund forecasts that average GNP growth in the industrial world will ease to a still healthy 3% or so in 1989 and 1990 , and inflation , though it will rise to 3.8% this year , will drop back in 1990 . |
| 27 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp used Comdex as a springboard to announce the formation of a Consumer Products Group to focus on developing consumer products for the home , small business and personal productivity markets , saying that it sees a $1,500m market in 1996 , up from just $430m or so in 1991 . |
| 28 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 29 | It has the capacity to build four KSR1 systems a week , which would represent $200m or so in annual sales , which implies an average sale price of about $1m per machine , although the firm sets $1m as the entry price . |
| 30 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |