Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 2 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 3 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 4 | And for a first course all you will need is either the broth from the pot-au-feu , which will have a very fine flavour and which you can thicken if you like with a little rice — there should be enough for seven or eight people — or perhaps a dish of mussels , or a light fish soup . |
| 5 | The existing schemes in the early and mid-1980s were usually based upon an annual interview by a member of the Senior Management Team of a school , or perhaps a head of department . |
| 6 | Emma played ‘ Jingle Bells ’ on the recorder quite nicely , or perhaps a mixture of wine and the brandy sauce mellowed the ear . |
| 7 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 8 | In tiny flats and bedsitters it 's more often the living room that has to make space for dining , in which case it 's a good idea to separate the two functions with either a physical division — like an arch , trellis or shelving — or with visual treatment like different lighting or flooring , or perhaps a change of colour or mood created by wall coverings and soft furnishings . |
| 9 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 10 | The prayers , or perhaps a combination of skill and simple luck — against Zimbabwe in particular — helped the Namibians win the tournament undefeated . |
| 11 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 12 | First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 13 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 14 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 15 | Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 17 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 18 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 19 | Kellmer Pringle argues that we need a concept of responsible and informed parenthood and a recognition that the ability and willingness to undertake the responsibilities of parenthood are not dependent on , or necessarily a consequence of , biological parenthood . |
| 20 | Am I up a flight of stairs or down a flight of stairs ? |
| 21 | Ah , that 's within the training , but if you got ta , if you 're gon na train somebody or especially a group of people you 've got ta have some objective that is specific . |
| 22 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 23 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 24 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 25 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 26 | Even when the lexemes are the same , they may be used very differently in address and reference ( see e.g. Beck , 1972 : 290ff for Tamil usage ) , or only a sub-set of the reference terms may be used in address . |
| 27 | ‘ What you 're saying is , ’ she said , ‘ that one should n't even whisper it in the wind on the hill-tops because once said a thing can never be unsaid ; that expression gives power to thought ; that even the clear though unspoken formulation of a nebulous impression may be dangerous , giving it a force and potency which silence or merely a lack of clarification would deny to it . ’ |
| 28 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 29 | After a few more minutes she became restless , and stood up again , her eyes searching the slope of the hillside and the valley below , trying to determine whether some small movement down there was a man on horseback or merely a trick of her imagination . |
| 30 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |