Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 2 | For a frustrated moment Maria suspected him of doing it deliberately , to punish her , or perhaps to teach her some sort of lesson . |
| 3 | I think you did it just to please me , or perhaps to satisfy your own deep-seated urge to be conventional in outward things . |
| 4 | He says that they more or less go their separate ways , Felicity and this green fellow she 's married to . |
| 5 | Well we 've had their director on the phone , phone yesterday and more or less demanded his twenty thousand back |
| 6 | Egoistic traits may be expected to survive if they benefit also the descendants which inherit them , to be weeded out if they benefit the individual at the expense of its offspring ( for example , cannibalizing its brood , or long outlasting its reproductive powers ) ; altruistic traits will tend to survive if they benefit kin which are also transmitting them ( in particular , the mother 's protection of her young ) , to die out if they give the advantage to strangers which are not . |
| 7 | Only very detailed research will establish whether the legal definition of a particular market or fair reflected its economic importance in a region . |
| 8 | FLOAT or FLOTATION : Freeing your currency to float up or down to find its own level . |
| 9 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 10 | Does this meet my partner 's needs or only serve my own ? |
| 11 | SIB would like any investors who have dealt with LWI directly or through to contact its Public Information Office . |
| 12 | A lunch break would give him his chance , forcing him to make a decision whether or not to delay his own sustenance in order to overtake us as we crammed fruit cake into our faces . |
| 13 | Whether it 's converting pictures into a compatible format for publication , or just expanding your artistic horizons , then this little program is worth a look . |
| 14 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 15 | Uncertain whether to knock politely on the kitchen door , or just thrust it open and make a dramatic entry , Leonora dumped her bag on the flagstones and pushed wet rat's-tails of hair back from her face . |
| 16 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 17 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 18 | The formal definitions of the Aristotelians are either unattainable , or hardly serve their intended purpose . |
| 19 | Long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea . |
| 20 | When Congress ( I ) deemed this insufficient Shekhar , apparently concluding that Gandhi was anyway planning sooner or later to form his own Congress ( I ) administration , submitted his resignation . |
| 21 | However , in any material , a crack may sooner or later reach its critical length , whether this be a micron or ten metres . |
| 22 | The past six months have also seen a flurry of administrative guidance , including arbitrary changes in accounting rules designed to prevent institutions from selling shares at a loss or even recognising their diminished value in their books . |
| 23 | Marlboro , for instance , does not have to show or even mention somebody smoking cigarettes — it just has to show a cowboy . |
| 24 | She 'll blame pressure on him at work , or his being led astray by boozy colleagues , or even kid herself some sleazy bimbo seduced him . |
| 25 | We urgently need more teachers for without them our work will not spread or even maintain its present level . |
| 26 | If you would like a tiled bathroom or kitchen floor , but have been put off by having to solve the problem of tiling over a wooden floor that could flex and crack , and so shift the grouting and loosen or even split your new ceramic floor tiles , then the answer could be the new Schlüter DITRA matting , available from stockists of Homeslux Products . |
| 27 | Because women are generally expected to take a more dependent role in society than men , disabled women face a particularly acute struggle to overcome the obstacles against them controlling their own lives , or even defining their own identities ( Morris , 1989 ; Lonsdale , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 29 | ‘ She could n't understand or even hear them all that well . |
| 30 | The successful schools , in contrast , took up more GIST suggestions more enthusiastically , or even developed their own ideas for interventions . |