Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dorsal arm plates are oval or weakly fan shaped contiguous only proximally . |
| 2 | Again , many solicitors are incompetent , and leave important matters to unsupervised articled clerks or inadequately trained legal executives . |
| 3 | tripping over electric cables or badly placed electric fires ; |
| 4 | Do n't wait for it Appleton if you want to save your insipid self from being punctured or badly handled all you can Do for the Better of our ESTEEMED BURMA is GET OUT ! |
| 5 | They crowded whatever elevators still worked or wearily scaled buckled stairways or girders . |
| 6 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 7 | No need to plan anything — and I 'm someone who likes planning things , or rather gets worried if things are n't planned . |
| 8 | I have to admit to being somewhat partisan in this month 's column , for I am , ( or rather think I am ) a member of the BMC 's Training Committee . |
| 9 | But S. Luria — who proposed , or rather re-proposed this conjecture ( Acta Antiqua 8 ( 1960 ) , 265–6 ) — had to postulate that Alcaeus called Jerusalem Hierosylyma , not Hierosolyma , and his only evidence for this was an etymological joke with antisemitic undertones quoted by Josephus ( c . |
| 10 | Within such states a single language , that of the ‘ nation ’ in question , is dominant , or rather enjoys privileged official status or monopoly . |
| 11 | The very words used to describe a beautiful garden — ‘ a riot of colour ’ — suggests that beauty is not necessarily regimented or politely colour co-ordinated . |
| 12 | Zander , rightly or wrongly shouldered much of the blame for the demise of the Fenland system in the late seventies — early eighties . |
| 13 | Secondly , there are offences intended to prevent anyone wrongly claiming to have supplied goods to the Queen ( or to anyone else ) or wrongly claiming royal approval , e.g. by displaying an emblem resembling that of the Queen 's Award to Industry . |
| 14 | MOST LARGE PRODUCERS have their own presshouses conveniently situated in the vineyards , otherwise growers take their grapes to co-operative presshouses or perhaps make private arrangements with other producers . |
| 15 | If girls are under sixteen , they can either continue at school , have a home tutor , or perhaps attend one of the few projects run specifically for pregnant schoolgirls and schoolgirl mothers , two of which — the Arbour Project in Liverpool and the Barkerend Unit in Bradford — are described here . |
| 16 | Jumping spiders , on the other hand , stalk their prey or perhaps stay hidden and wait for it to pass close by . |
| 17 | I would look for strategically positioned places , such as a corner or perhaps set high off the street . |
| 18 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 19 | The impairment of faculties suffered by its inmates is carefully , even graphically , represented by the text — for example , one character who dies , or perhaps falls asleep , leaves only blank pages to represent the extinction of her consciousness . |
| 20 | If you are lucky enough to own any old sepia family photographs , it can look extremely attractive to arrange a collection of them on a wall , as you can then give them all co-ordinating mounts that are decorated with your favourite pressed flowers , or perhaps choose some flowers that are appropriate to the family . |
| 21 | Or perhaps established literary figures enjoy a certain immunity from such cranky zeal . |
| 22 | Can any reader suggest just when or perhaps identify any of the group ? |
| 23 | The king thought long , or perhaps sat silent long without thought , hardly yet fully grasping what had befallen . |
| 24 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 25 | E. M. Byrde , the Police Magistrate at Anuradhapura in 1896 , noted that ‘ cattle stealers do not go about , as witnesses would wish one to believe , removing stolen cattle in broad daylight or along frequented high roads by moonlight . ’ |
| 26 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 27 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 28 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 29 | I 've more or less lost that sense of being with Arthur . |
| 30 | As Aldous Huxley more or less said 40 years ago in The Doors of Perception , as he turned away from the exploding Red Hot Peppers : is n't alcohol a bloody awful drug ? |