Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toxic algae has previously been confined to lowland shallow lakes surrounded either by an increasing population or intensively farmed land . |
| 2 | Specific studies of a region may have already been carried out , perhaps on the trade in a particular type of pottery , or on defended hilltop sites . |
| 3 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 4 | Every ad is a fresh chance to make a blunder which opponents can seize on ; a badly conceived or badly produced advertisement or party political broadcast can alienate voters . |
| 5 | According to Annett ( 1975 ) the incidence of left or right sided speech representation among sinistrals should be considered a function of the proportion of sinistrals in the population at large . |
| 6 | The emphasis is placed upon the use of personal and professional skills , and taking all possible steps to protect staff in situations where physical or verbally expressed aggression is likely to arise . |
| 7 | In the North Isle of the Parish church of Newport painell in Buckinghamshire , in the yeare 1619 was found the body of a man whole and perfect ; laid downe , or rather leaning downe , North , and South : all the concauous parts of his body , and the hollownesse of euery bone , as well ribs as other , were filled vp with sollid lead . |
| 8 | USL , or rather OSF founder Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes AG , which did the port , is using OSF 's DCE 1.0.1 for both the early access code and the OEM kits scheduled to become generally available in January . |
| 9 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed production for the market , as a purpose taking priority over any other , is widely evident in each phase , though there are many examples of producers struggling against or effectively ignoring market trends . |
| 11 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 12 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 13 | This is a charming small town , or perhaps overgrown village , with just the right kind of simple hotels to tempt you to stop off here . |
| 14 | Pupils will also enjoy performing simple period music ( playing medieval music on recorders and percussion instruments , for instance , or perhaps performing negro spirituals in a lesson about slavery ) . |
| 15 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 16 | Scottish litigation is undertaken in the Sheriff Court and there are two separate procedures : one for debts over £1000 called ordinary causes and one for debts of £1000 or less called summary causes . |
| 17 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 18 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 19 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 20 | Ten or less suggests revision is necessary . |
| 21 | A score of seven or less suggests revision is necessary . |
| 22 | ‘ Bodily Injury ’ does not include sickness , disease or naturally occurring condition or degenerative process but does include death or disablement as a direct result of exposure to the elements . |
| 23 | Much of the ceramic material in eastern England , less so in the south , is stamped , that is decorated by pressing a carved die or naturally occurring object into the surface . |
| 24 | Where surrogate parents are unavailable , residential homes should be both small in size and fully integrated into the community as a whole , whether they be for short or long stay care , for children or adults . |
| 25 | Choose the Poly Style Deep Care Perm to suit your requirements — Long Lasting Bouncy Curls or Long Lasting Body and Wave . |
| 26 | Pasture , especially natural or long established pasture , acts like a biological sponge , holding large amounts of nitrate . |
| 27 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 28 | The use of a scheme in centrally or cooperatively produced catalogue records can also be important in establishing its future . |
| 29 | Renew contacts with old friends Saturday or drop in on a parent or much loved relative . |
| 30 | Of more immediate concern to governments and , it seemed , likely to produce much quicker and more clearly identifiable results , were the growing efforts which many of them were now making to use for their own purposes the new or greatly strengthened force of the newspaper press . |