Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town or perhaps village was south of Bristol . |
| 2 | Perhaps Emilia Lanier was Will 's Dark Lady , or perhaps Will was just trying to help his friend Lord Southampton . |
| 3 | With only the middle trilogy of nine planned films completed , the vein seemed to have been worked out — or perhaps Lucas was wiser than other compounders of sequels in stopping while he was still ahead . |
| 4 | ‘ Or perhaps Rhoda is right and it is the house . |
| 5 | The Dutch government has now asked the Arts Council to allocate funds and the 300 or so galleries are now grouped into two categories . |
| 6 | It was a very dangerous business , if up to thirty or so golfers were letting fly . |
| 7 | ‘ Beneath a sultry sky , at four o'clock , the island , boats slipping past its flank , stirring with a casual Sunday crowd enjoying the fresh air among the trees ; and these forty or so figures are endowed with a succinct , hieratic line … |
| 8 | In the one county of Devon , for example , sixty or so boroughs were created by optimistic landowners , of which one half failed to come to anything . |
| 9 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 10 | For a couple of days or so England were actually in the match . |
| 11 | Within the SenFed almost every one of those million or so planets is vying with at least some others — for influence , for position , for trade and aid and income . |
| 12 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 13 | Again and again this arching leap is performed until a hundred or so eggs are fixed in an even carpet on the female 's back . |
| 14 | The spawning was a brief affair with some thousand or so eggs being scattered and fertilised in a matter of seconds . |
| 15 | ‘ … the designers set out deliberately to create a pedestrian dominated area … short culs-de-sac ( gave ) access to several small courtyards- , around which a half dozen or so houses were grouped quite informally . |
| 16 | The half-dozen or so houses were neat and well cared for , yet there was no sign of life at all , not even the yapping of a dog or the cluck of a hen , just the wind stirring the flowers at the road end . |
| 17 | In real terms , this means 20,000 software professionals are now living in the region , while another 7,000 or so students are studying software-related disciplines in Scotland 's 12 universities . |
| 18 | There was one certainly in the docks in my time where , er quite a nasty fire in the docks , one of the warehouse buildings there was , was going very well erm a ten , ten or so pump was on , on that job . |
| 19 | ‘ And do you think a dozen or so irregulars are going to break a way into Parfois ? |
| 20 | The 400 or so balloons were eventually released by St Edmundsbury mayor Ted May , hospital chief executive Bob Jones and trust chairman Raymond Grierson . |
| 21 | Soon a dozen or so hands were raised and after their names had been written down and details of what their duties would involve the meeting was brought to a close . |
| 22 | A dozen or so schoolgirls were dutifully filling in xeroxed , hand-written , one-word-answerable questionnaires . |
| 23 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 24 | As a result of the new scheme , some 3000 , or so applications are notified to the 10 park authorities each year . |
| 25 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 26 | ONE-time pirate radio disc jockey Keith Skues ‘ hi-jacked ’ the airwaves again on Saturday — or so listeners were led to believe . |
| 27 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
| 28 | Its almost immediate closure was announced and then retracted last autumn , and its 600 or so employees are now waiting to hear how long the reprieve will last . |
| 29 | Among the 20 or so protestors were seven foreigners , including the former Soviet Environment Minister , Nikolai Vorontsov . |
| 30 | The next fifteen or so miles were easier , not so much because it was daylight but because , once past that towering headland , they were rowing west by north and the wind and tide were now behind them . |