Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What justifies the assumption that two qualitatively identical things can occupy simultaneously two different places , or numerically the same place in succession ? |
| 2 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 3 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 4 | The Labour group , currently with 25 seats compared to the Tories ' 57 , believes it needs another 25 to gain control — depending on how well or badly the Liberal Democrats fare . |
| 5 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
| 6 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |
| 7 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 8 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 9 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 10 | A typical present might be a bomb , or rather a hand-grenade alarm clock . |
| 11 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 12 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
| 13 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 14 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 15 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 16 | ‘ Let me outline the case , or rather the two cases , to you all . |
| 17 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 18 | The point , or rather the angled corner , of the Polychromos Pastel and its chisel-like leading edge gives it is immediate graphic potential . |
| 19 | She was the defendant , or rather the accused , and should have known it all along . |
| 20 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 21 | Or rather the Neapolitan bone-ache , for that , methinks , is the curse depending on those that war for a placket . |
| 22 | He reached the door , or rather the cast-iron gate as his destination was a villa , quite a large villa with a central courtyard . |
| 23 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 24 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 25 | It is the new paganism , or rather the old variety with a facelift and a fresh application of make-up . |
| 26 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 27 | They were all here , or rather the outward appearance of what was them was here . |
| 28 | For the builder the most significant disadvantages created by the employment of directly employed labour are the need to : ( a ) Create incentive or motivation which will induce the operative to achieve a production rate that will equal or better the tender or estimate . |
| 29 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) Sub-sub-headings might have an underline in blue , or perhaps a dotted underline . |