Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Those taking up headland set-aside could site it either against a footpath , or right away from areas where members of the public were likely to go . |
2 | A common sight throughout the rural areas of South India , occurring sometimes at the entrance to a village or town , near Siva temples and shrines , in the corner of a temple courtyard , near a water tank or stream ( water being the mother of life ) or most often under Peepul or Neem trees , is a cluster of erect stone slabs planted in the ground rising to about 3 feet in height on the face of which appear effigies of the Cobra or Nag , In relation to the afore-mentioned trees , generally ‘ married ’ to each other , they are symbolic of ‘ life ’ , with the Serpent representing their spirit or life energy . |
3 | Or rather back to home . |
4 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
5 | Or better still for lunch . |
6 | Setting aside mathematics for the moment , the different levels can be seen in terms of scale ( which Hodgson 1985 neatly gives in centimetres ) , in terms of envelopes ( Needham 1969 ) or perhaps best in terms of levels of organization ( since physicists argue that they relate to ‘ all levels of scale ’ ; Institute of Physics 1988 , p. 2 ) . |
7 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |
8 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
9 | It is never — or perhaps only on occasion — the fault of an individual who has not done his job conscientiously or with an adequate standard of service . |
10 | Helen Frankenthaler , once significantly ‘ otherised ’ with Mr Motherwell , shows works from the Sixties ( ‘ The Classic Years ’ ) more or less concurrently at Emmerich ( 18 February to 20 March ) . |
11 | The British navy continued to depend on what men could be allured by bounties , snapped up by the press-gang , or recruited more or less forcibly from convicts and debtors . |
12 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
13 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
14 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |
15 | Taken more or less straight from life , Granovsky was to have represented the liberal 1840s in a crisp , neat , polemical generation-gap story . |
16 | The original intention was to record about 80 speakers , divided more or less equally between males and females . |
17 | Wings was subsequently sold by Rank to Horizon at about the same time as Horizon was itself purchased more or less outright by Bass for £90 million in May 1987 . |
18 | The Pullmans , it was announced , would be kept more or less exclusively for Pullman Rail 's newly created non-steamcharter haul business . |
19 | Even in the villages , people talk more or less openly against Saddam . |
20 | Some feed more or less directly on sediment , from which they extract edible particles . |
21 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
22 | Although some differences appear to stem more or less directly from inequalities in wealth and power , others appear to be associated with attitudes and values which can not be related directly to such inequalities ; an example is the preference of British working-class mothers for bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding their babies . |
23 | As a result , the actual discovery was made more or less simultaneously by others . |
24 | Bishop Fan Xueyan was described by one of his fellow bishops as someone who ‘ suffered a lot , spending his life between prison and freedom , more or less always under surveillance ’ . |
25 | When more or less alone at night in the casualty ward , the doctor needs to be able to make up his or her own mind , and exercise judgement about the particular features presented by the accident victim just wheeled in . |
26 | Most often it is described as care returned more or less explicitly in gratitude for what the author had been given in childhood . |
27 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
28 | Turnover in all sterling bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange has , in recent years , been averaging around £50 billion per annum , split more or less evenly between client business and intra-market business . |
29 | The other is to disperse them so that their unwanted presence may be put more or less out of sight ’ ( p. 280 ) . |
30 | Scorpius is setting , and the Cross is more or less out of view , though as seen from anywhere south of Sydney or the Cape it never drops below the horizon . |