Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 3 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 4 | Areas of crustal subsidence usually form topographic features with minimal local relief because they become partly or wholly filled by sediment transported from surrounding highlands ; examples include the Lake Eyre Basin in southern Australia , the Kalahari Basin in southern Africa and the Ob Basin in the USSR . |
| 5 | Yes , but there are quite a few partly or wholly centred around hotels . |
| 6 | And ‘ in no sense should voluntary bodies partly or wholly relying on fundraising and volunteer help take over elements of the core work of the public services . ’ |
| 7 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 8 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 9 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 10 | You do a complete circuit , left or right depending on wind , and then you can go where you want . |
| 11 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 12 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 13 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 14 | Eliot , Evelyn Waugh , Tolkien , Virginia Woolf , Gertrude Stein , Harold Pinter , Sylvia Plath , Max Beerbohm , to name a haphazard miscellany , advance , hover uncertainly , or slowly fade into obscurity ? |
| 15 | In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued . |
| 16 | She says the bed bookings fall appears to indicate people are coming to Oxford for the day or perhaps staying with friends or relatives . |
| 17 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 18 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 19 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 20 | Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience . |
| 21 | There is no reason at all to suppose that the policies of these states would have been more intelligent or less influenced by fear and ambition if they had been decided by parliaments elected on the widest and fairest franchise possible and carried out by diplomatic services freed from social distinctions . |
| 22 | Between four and eight sectors will be flown , but occasionally either more or less according to season . |
| 23 | Additional developer licenses are $3,000 and additional end-user licences go for $1,500 or less depending on quantity . |
| 24 | ARE non-American jazz players more or less doomed to imitation ? |
| 25 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 26 | It is more or less surrounded by Centaurus ; the only other common boundary is with Musca . |
| 27 | Elsewhere the effect of wave activity may be particularly intensely experienced by one size fraction which is either totally removed or greatly increased in proportion . |
| 28 | The individual would move up or down according to merit . |
| 29 | Instead , the sites are used by local residents , of who some 25 per cent or so come by foot and use the sites like an urban park , primarily to take a walk ( Harrison , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | That has been much nicer than paying the 5% or so charged on bank loans even when interest rates in Japan were at a record low . |