Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ? |
| 2 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 3 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 4 | There are a number of ways in which to consider whether or not foreign currency or the exchange rate is fairly priced . |
| 5 | Most exhibitionists are men , and exhibitionistic tendencies which occur in women usually take the form of overtly unintentional or deliberately daring dress or disarrangement of clothing . |
| 6 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 7 | It would also be interesting if a similar series of texts could be developed to provide chemists with more specialised or vocational understanding of other branches of chemistry , or even chemical economics or marketing . |
| 8 | Or maybe another quarter or half mile further on along the line he was taking . |
| 9 | The round or almost oval rootstock or corm produces a plant with narrow , long , almost arrow-shaped leaves , which are green or greenish-red on the upper surface and dull green on the undersides . |
| 10 | Where either intellectual incapacity or lack of any actual connection means that we can neither intuitively nor demonstratively perceive a connection , then , ‘ though we may fancy , guess , or believe , yet we always come short of knowledge ’ . |
| 11 | Oh I 'll go there and finish that perhaps this afternoon or tomorrow , anytime there 's no-one 's to go there only me now is n't it . |
| 12 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 13 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body . |
| 14 | In spite of Virtues 's dogma , cleanliness is neither essential nor effective against an established infestation , and gamma-benzene hexachloride or benzyl benzoate are preferable and more effective than either carbolic acid or tobacco . |
| 15 | Some of the strategies entered in Axelrod 's tournament were much more sophisticated than either Remorseful Prober or Naive Prober , but they too ended up with fewer points , on average , than simple Tit for Tat . |
| 16 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 17 | Improving the outlook for patients will require either diagnosing cancer at an asymptomatic and presumably earlier phase or offering more effective treatment for those with advanced disease . |
| 18 | Tomorrow morning will be mostly dry , with any thicker cloud in the east of the region and only light rain or drizzle over the Cotswolds . |
| 19 | Usually , if only one loop or bump is visible across the warp where the knot has been tied , then the Persian knot has been employed . |
| 20 | In some cases , the condition is debilitating and not unlike grief or depression . |
| 21 | If you have partition walls and not much space or light you can try playing around with the walls a little . |
| 22 | The English , English and not American English or German English and er this part of a massive project been undertaken from the British Isles , in Suffolk it 's already been to Thomas More 's High School to report in lessons , here a , he decided to use the highway facility |
| 23 | The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies . |
| 24 | A year later Mrs Meehan wrote , ‘ As I say again , Paddy or Jim had never heard of Mr Ross until after this crime , and I know if not this week or this year , he will clear himself one day . |
| 25 | Our wish to avoid causing displeasure and possibly inviting isolation or punishment ( pleasure ) . |
| 26 | Discussion Although the production of type-specific secretory antibody has been associated with protection against poliovirus infection , large-scale efficacy trials and more limited case-control or cohort studies conducted during outbreaks of poliomyelitis indicate that detectable serum neutralising antibody is correlated with clinical protection against disease . |
| 27 | In a context where design debate , narrowly conceived , seems to be meeting with little success in evaluating design 's social import , the questions raised — is design the means whereby we can shape future socio-technological systems to create a richer and more emancipated life or simply the often impotent agent of techno-economic systems ? — become a means to general design understanding . |
| 28 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
| 29 | Animals give the appearance of having been designed by a theoretically sophisticated and practically ingenious physicist or engineer , but there is no suggestion that the bats themselves know or understand the theory in the same sense as a physicist understands it . |
| 30 | They make up their mind whether they travel there and back each day or take or stay there . |