Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the list does give an indication of those routes which should be tackled largely or wholly by moving together . |
| 2 | Setting the white balance used to be a fiddly and time-consuming procedure , hut nowadays it is done automatically , or by setting presets , or manually by aiming the camcorder at a standard white reference . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the writing by a testator of his name on a testamentary document , as for instance by writing ‘ My will by John Smith ’ or perhaps by typing ‘ The will of John Smith , ’ or in some other passage that left it uncertain whether in doing so he was intending to authenticate the document , would not , by itself , satisfy either paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( b ) of section 9 . |
| 4 | something which they may have saved for themselves or perhaps by doing an odd job here and there , and working a day or two a week , which will not make too great demands on their strength , but will just keep the household going . |
| 5 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 6 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 7 | It is argued by Mr. Scrivener that the Home Secretary has acted unfairly or irrationally in treating discretionary and mandatory cases differently . |
| 8 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 9 | The main route , travelling in an anti-clockwise direction , covers approximately 40 miles , so allow an hour or so for driving and as long as you like for stops ! |
| 10 | Within an hour or so of reaching the pond and becoming clasped in amplexus , females start to lay their eggs . |
| 11 | He could destroy attacks and turn matches around in half-an-hour or so of batting fury . |
| 12 | Obesity increased equally in all groups over the 20 years or so of follow up , despite sustained medical advice but without help from a dietitian . |
| 13 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 14 | Over the first years or so of paying into an endowment fund , most of your money will be paid straight to the lender or broker who arranged the policy . |
| 15 | After the first week or so of following the diet , with any possible withdrawal symptoms behind you , things should look up . |
| 16 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 17 | Late last year Chemicals ' chief executive warned of difficult times ahead when he said : ‘ I would hope we will come through the next six months or so without losing more than 100 jobs . ’ |
| 18 | McGillicuddy would n't relish the idea of giving up the General Director 's job as European overlord , but he was also sixty and could be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . |
| 19 | He 'll be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . ’ |
| 20 | Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again . |
| 21 | At a temperature of 73–74°F John 's fish 's eggs hatch in about 2½–3 days , but the fry are another day or so before becoming free-swimming . |
| 22 | She 'd leave them watching their choice of video or music for an hour or so before returning to give them their tea . |
| 23 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 24 | It may be argued that in parliamentary democracies the people can protest every five years or so by casting their votes in the election of a new government . |
| 25 | He did , however , miss the opportunity to improve our dental and general health and collect another billion or so by placing a heavy excise duty on sugar , chocolate and other confectionery , on which we spend over £4 billion a year . |
| 26 | If you could follow a leopard as it makes its way along such a track or even through the jungle itself , you would see that the animal blazes its own trail every 20 yards ( 18 m ) or so by spraying trees and bushes with its scent mark . |
| 27 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 28 | After or shortly before taking your call , if you intend to practise , you will read in the chambers of a junior barrister . |
| 29 | So , whether we look purely to the way in which a corpus sustains itself internally , or to the production of new perspectives for the corpus , or to the intermingling of different corpuses , or finally to standing outside a corpus altogether and developing a critique of it , we can see that reason is exhibited within and given sense by a framework with its own tacit rules . |
| 30 | It 's not clear how many people participated in the event in Britain or elsewhere by carrying out local ascents , raising sponsorship for the ten lifeline projects designated by the United Nations . |