Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 2 | It is a fact , it 's not an opinion , it 's a fact , that in the mammalian species , males can be vastly more reproductively su successful , or vastly less reproductively successful than females . |
| 3 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 4 | Some things are more genuine than others , or rather more firmly rooted in evidence . |
| 5 | This distinction , between , as it were , having an existence , and possessing an identity , erm is a major preoccupation in the novel , just as finding answers to the questions ‘ Where am I ? ’ or rather more importantly ‘ Who am I ? ’ is one of its central objectives . |
| 6 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
| 7 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 8 | To some extent it is fair to ask who is the play 's author : the writer , the company or the director producing the play , or perhaps most properly a collaboration between these three ? |
| 9 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 10 | Suppose someone 's name is entered on the computer as having been convicted of prostitution in London and they report an assault in York or perhaps somewhere totally different . |
| 11 | But then the British — or perhaps more properly the English — deal best with their own . |
| 12 | It acts as a bridge between the natural and the synthetic systems giving greater biocompatibility , or perhaps more properly biotolerance , and confers membrane properties on the hydrogel , allowing transport of oxygen and water soluble metabolites through the polymer matrix . |
| 13 | Other approaches are marginalized as being ‘ theoretical ’ ( that is , not sufficiently practical ) or perhaps more properly the concern of another discipline . |
| 14 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 16 | For example the baby being born prematurely or perhaps more drastically the need for a Caesarian to be carried out . |
| 17 | Drawing on research by Nordenstam ( 1979 ) , Rogers ( 1981 ) and Trudgill ( 1982 ) , Trudgill reaches the conclusion that the fixed route of acquisition is confined to adults , or perhaps more probably to adolescents . |
| 18 | If you change your beliefs but your life stays the same and you feel the same , then you have n't really changed those beliefs , or perhaps more deeply rooted beliefs are blocking you . |
| 19 | He declared that Scott 's design would be ‘ a great ornament to the metropolis ’ and believed that ‘ it would be as convenient , or perhaps more so , than any Italian building that could be erected ’ . |
| 20 | Well I 'd suggest it includes , for example , instructions , erm directions , or perhaps more bluntly , orders . |
| 21 | Better to offer the client a service which is more relevant to the day-to-day running of the business and its profitability ( or perhaps more correctly these days , the business 's survival ) . |
| 22 | If we just first look at the organization that we have , or perhaps more correctly will have following consultation , erm I think you will agree with me that the , the roles and responsibilities of those people are fairly well defined . |
| 23 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 24 | This continuing cycle , or perhaps more appropriately spiral , is clearly visible in those industries which centre on electronics and are in the business of producing robots and artificial intelligences which go with them . |
| 25 | So I think there is something qualitatively different when the subject , or perhaps more appropriately the object of sexual harassment are women . |
| 26 | If the very young , and sometimes the educationally very backward , are taught , or perhaps more accurately indoctrinated , with the idea that there is a ‘ god ’ who approves the teaching , who is caring for them , and who will provide for their needs , they will believe this , even when a state of intense deprivation confutes this every day of their lives . |
| 27 | They see their lives as becoming progressively more empty and meaningless , and this essentially pessimistic outlook on their lives is reflected in all that they do , or perhaps more accurately , in all that they fail to do . |
| 28 | At one level , therefore , the English Reformation was undoubtedly ‘ an act of state ’ , or perhaps more accurately acts of state — a series of changes initiated by monarchs and imposed by them upon their subjects . |
| 29 | A regency council headed by Henry of Lancaster was set up to administer the realm , but Mortimer remained outside it , or perhaps more accurately above it , occupying a quasi-royal position as Queen Isabella 's lover . |
| 30 | The benefit of such consolidations — or perhaps more accurately the disadvantage of not treating a customer in his entirety — is nicely illustrated by my own personal experience with a highly respected financial services provider . |