Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 2 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 3 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 4 | And journeys in Indonesia , India , America and Hell — or rather the Costa del Sol . |
| 5 | The pair are planning to introduce and ship a line of four models this summer including a low-end colour unit priced under the $2,000 barrier and a monochrome unit that will equal or better the $1,000 price tag on Visual 's current entry level . |
| 6 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 7 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 8 | The adventurers could use the information to denounce the suppliers to the authorities and hope for a reward ( or perhaps a Chaos cult declaring war on them ) , or less scrupulous characters might turn to blackmail , either for money or for magical training . |
| 9 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
| 10 | In general , the photograph will be protected by copyright which will be owned by the publisher or perhaps a freelance photographer . |
| 11 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 12 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 13 | or perhaps a quiz show that started then , you know . |
| 14 | Or perhaps a 25p glass of Coke is better ? |
| 15 | Or perhaps the diaphragm needs replacing . |
| 16 | Also ships carrying dangerous cargoes in sensitive waters , for example an area similar to where the went ashore or perhaps the Dover Straits where cargo collisions have been reduced by eighty percent since radar surveillance was introduced . |
| 17 | They recognised him , or perhaps the gold band round his helmet . |
| 18 | Or perhaps the phone boxes were all vandalised . |
| 19 | Or perhaps the deputy editor Simon Heffer — who penned the tribute — was confusing ‘ legendary ’ charm with ‘ mythical ’ charm . |
| 20 | or perhaps the sports grounds down there |
| 21 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 22 | Or perhaps the transition adventure was just a ripple on the ocean of complexity in which all newcomers to the Course must quickly learn to sink or swim . |
| 23 | Today we see this in terms of which places have the shops , local school , or perhaps the parish church . |
| 24 | Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them . |
| 25 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 26 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 27 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 28 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 29 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 30 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |