Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could hardly be distinguished from ‘ good Pyrmont , or rather seltzer water ’ . |
| 2 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 3 | The sitting-room has glazed sliding-front china cases , electrically lit on either side … the staircase window , or rather glass wall , has fringed curtains in green and white , illuminated from below at night time . ’ |
| 4 | Delayed for over four years , Nagisa Oshima 's Max Mon Amour features Charlotte Rampling indulging in extramarital horseplay , or rather between-the-sheets monkey business with her lover Max , a chimp . |
| 5 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |
| 6 | If your target audience includes a substantial proportion of light viewers , but your campaign is on TV , you may need to supplement TV with suitable press or perhaps cinema advertising to reach this group . |
| 7 | The solution may be to use oestrogen cream , or perhaps hormone replacement therapy , for which you 'd need to see your doctor again . |
| 8 | And in the next musical sequence , the songs for Night , Mystery , Secrecy and Sleep , Purcell ignored the refrain — or perhaps da capo which the librettist had indicated for each song . |
| 9 | I was unsteady on my feet , and my head felt like a leftover battlefield , but everything seemed to be in more or less working order . |
| 10 | so that erm more or less Salisbury Park are the people who really Th they said that whatever the decision , decision they make , they would fall in with them . |
| 11 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 12 | Just 30 miles or so south west of Bristol , Sedgemoor stretches from the Mendip Hills in the north to the Quantock Hills in the south . |
| 13 | Now we 're looking for tomorrow for about a twenty minute or so role play . |
| 14 | 130 beta NT copies are now with UK corporates , a further 2,500 will be delivered this month : at least 10% of the 45,000 or so NT developer kits shipped worldwide have landed in the UK . |
| 15 | Erm , so it 's tempting to see er anorexia as part of this whole picture , because it usually happens in younger women usually at the beginning of their reproductive careers and there is usually , or so therapists report , conflict usually with parents related to things like career , er possible choice of marriage partner which erm create conflict about the young , about the young woman 's er future reproductive life . |
| 16 | Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square . |
| 17 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 18 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 19 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 20 | Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time ? |
| 21 | Erm sports or just golf industry . |
| 22 | Because if you want to do shopping or just window shopping , you should park outside of the town or on the outskirts of the town and you can walk in or you can get the the bus service |
| 23 | The granules of spinea have broad base and a trifid or slightly rugose crown , those of hamula have a narrower base and the crown is more rugose . |
| 24 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 25 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 26 | Companies , generally speaking , tend to produce relatively few kinds of waste — mainly paper , say , or mainly metal scrap — which makes recycling easier . |
| 27 | One advantage of that approach would be to direct attention to the particular source of danger , thus labelling the offence in a way which both describes the circumstances of the offence and serves an educative or even deterrent purpose . |
| 28 | Alameda , California-based Uniface Corp will this week be staging a four-city telecast , rolling out its new Universal Presentation Interface and promising that developers will be able to build database applications that automatically deploy on computers running Motif , Open Look , Windows , Presentation Manager or even character mode without writing a single line of additional code . |
| 29 | This contrasts strongly with the simplicity of word processing , data base or even spreadsheet software . |
| 30 | Let's say a former Salford student or even faculty member wanted to visit the States for three weeks , maybe I would be in a position to provide some ( rental ) accommodation for a fraction of the cost of a hotel or package deal . |