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 | They crowded whatever elevators still worked or wearily scaled buckled stairways or girders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No need to plan anything — and I 'm someone who likes planning things , or rather gets worried if things are n't planned . |
| 7 | Within such states a single language , that of the ‘ nation ’ in question , is dominant , or rather enjoys privileged official status or monopoly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jumping spiders , on the other hand , stalk their prey or perhaps stay hidden and wait for it to pass close by . |
| 12 | I would look for strategically positioned places , such as a corner or perhaps set high off the street . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or perhaps established literary figures enjoy a certain immunity from such cranky zeal . |
| 16 | The king thought long , or perhaps sat silent long without thought , hardly yet fully grasping what had befallen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A system that connects a single vendor 's range of products — and which can be adapted more or less to handle other vendors ' offerings . |
| 21 | Consequently the interpersonal or social functions of the language can be more or less held constant . |
| 22 | Numbers living in rural areas more or less stood still until mid-century , falling by just half a million between 1831 and 1911 . |
| 23 | The Footsie 100 Index of the Top 100 shares has more or less stood still this year . |
| 24 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 25 | There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events . |
| 26 | The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing . |
| 27 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 28 | The new or greatly expanded extractive industries needed pit props ; iron smelting , at least until Abraham Darby discovered the use of coke in 1709 , required charcoal ; and other industries such as glass-making , tanning and salt-making all required timber for various reasons . |
| 29 | Adjust the door up or down to ensure equal clearance between door and frame . |
| 30 | They usually involve a combination of the following organisational arrangements : ( 1 ) The physical separation of the various departments , often extending to matters of detail such as dining arrangements ; ( 2 ) An educational programme normally recurring to emphasise the importance of not improperly or inadvertently divulging confidential information ; ( 3 ) Strict and carefully defined procedures for dealing with a situation where it is considered that the wall should be crossed and the maintaining of proper records where this occurs : ( 4 ) Monitoring by compliance officers of the effectiveness of the wall , including the monitoring of employee trading ; and ( 5 ) Disciplinary sanctions where there has been an improper breach of the wall . |