Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
2 | Since we are considering a binary computer , multiplication and division of the contents of the accumulator by a power of two can be accomplished by shifting the contents to the left or right an appropriate number of positions . |
3 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |
4 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
5 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
6 | A typical present might be a bomb , or rather a hand-grenade alarm clock . |
7 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
8 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
9 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
10 | The point , or rather the angled corner , of the Polychromos Pastel and its chisel-like leading edge gives it is immediate graphic potential . |
11 | Or rather the Neapolitan bone-ache , for that , methinks , is the curse depending on those that war for a placket . |
12 | He reached the door , or rather the cast-iron gate as his destination was a villa , quite a large villa with a central courtyard . |
13 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
14 | It is the new paganism , or rather the old variety with a facelift and a fresh application of make-up . |
15 | They were all here , or rather the outward appearance of what was them was here . |
16 | And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released … |
17 | ( 3 ) Sub-sub-headings might have an underline in blue , or perhaps a dotted underline . |
18 | She is an applied artist , producing witty and colourful furniture , screens and floor cloths : her raw material could be an unpromising kitchen chair , c1955 , with plastic leather seat and sturdy legs , or perhaps a chain-store chest of drawers of dubious design . |
19 | At first Cottle was asked to consider a new edition of Poems on Various Subjects , or a volume of Wordsworth 's poems , or perhaps a joint edition of Osorio and The Borderers . |
20 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
21 | The research " team " is usually just a single individual , or perhaps a married couple , with maybe a local assistant . |
22 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
23 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
24 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
25 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
26 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
27 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
28 | Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern . |
29 | Perhaps some drunken jape which got out of hand , or perhaps a calculated act of attempted murder . |
30 | You will usually find that there is a favourite flower that you can use , or perhaps a particular colour , for a picture such as this . |