Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need to plan anything — and I 'm someone who likes planning things , or rather gets worried if things are n't planned . |
| 2 | Within such states a single language , that of the ‘ nation ’ in question , is dominant , or rather enjoys privileged official status or monopoly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 5 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 6 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 7 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 8 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
| 9 | Occasionally teachers were allowed to fit into school hours or overtime courses some algebra , Euclid , French , Latin and Irish . |
| 10 | This would seem particularly likely if the adult is facing or already has financial difficulties . |
| 11 | The Norman Heritage , Maritime Adventure and Dickensian link make days out , short breaks or longer stays fun and fascinating . |
| 12 | It is to be further noted : ( a ) That the extent of the duty of good faith will vary according to the nature of the contract ; ( b ) That the duty of good faith will be broken if an employee makes or copies a list of the customers of the employer for use after his employment ends or deliberately memorises such a list , even though , except in special circumstances , there is no general restriction on an ex-employee canvassing or doing business with customers of his former employer . |
| 13 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 14 | But " thinking like a scientist " sooner or later involves greater autonomy , a bigger share of the decision-making : not simply discussing with the teacher and learning to guess from his facial expressions or other clues what the " right " answer might be , but actually wrestling unprompted with the methodology and materials in order to find it out for oneself . |
| 15 | Every product undergoes change with the passage of time and sooner or later becomes unsatisfactory , by which is meant in this context that it no longer conforms to its specification . |
| 16 | ‘ did assault … ( specify person ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 17 | Police Force ( or Constabulary ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 19 | Where a carer feels in conflict with the demands of different people in the household , or even has two dependents , the stress is much greater . |
| 20 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 21 | The research aims to obtain detailed evidence of the various ways in which assistance given to firms by district councils conflicts with , or alternatively helps regional policy to bring jobs to the depressed areas . |
| 22 | makes a statement , promise or forecast which he knows to be misleading , false or deceptive or dishonestly conceals any material facts ; or |
| 23 | In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable . |
| 24 | Second , if the patient breathes , however weakly and albeit without the regularity or strength to sustain himself , or otherwise demonstrates some sign of brain-stem functioning , then the question arises as to whether or not to switch the machine on again . |
| 25 | to my solicitors or where does that go to now ? |
| 26 | Nor again does this failure to achieve total abstinence mean that one is inevitably heading for relapse or that it is necessarily a significant factor in those who do relapse . |
| 27 | Despite disagreement over the extent of providential intervention in the flow of human events evangelicals had no doubt that ‘ there is a God who governs the world and intimately directs all the concerns of his rational and immortal creatures ’ . |
| 28 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 29 | A ‘ Confirmed Credit ’ is one where a second bank ( usually one familiar to the exporter ) adds it name to the Credit and thereby assumes all the responsibilities of payment mentioned in Article 10 . |
| 30 | Yes it can , if close , humid weather curbs evaporation , allows the temperature of milk to rise , and thereby promotes bacterial production of lactic acid . |