Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ’ are French , or Swedes , or Germans or even members of politically defined sub-units like Lombards , but distinguished from the invading ‘ them ’ by being the ‘ real ’ Frenchmen or Germans or Brits , as defined ( usually ) by putative descent or long residence . |
| 2 | This is not a matter of party politics or personalities or policies or even principles . |
| 3 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 4 | To think that a French woman should be so foolish she said , though I did n't like spiders or earwigs or moths or even snakes . |
| 5 | The special ways and means employed by special effects artists may include filming backgrounds or actions or even people to create an illusion of everyday reality . |
| 6 | In this context , it makes no sense to speak of an ‘ industry ’ like steel or automobiles or televisions or even banking . |
| 7 | Details of existing computer systems as would be known by computer analysts or programmers or even users of the system . |
| 8 | ‘ But sometimes events or thoughts or even characters take charge when you 're working . |
| 9 | Other children had developed similar fondnesses for teddy bears or dolls or even blankets . |
| 10 | Finally I declared that we had no Chiefs only innumerable Indians ; that meetings and even pow-wows were not found necessary ; that communication was by smoke-signal , both between ourselves of the load-bearers form Cubs to Grandfathers/mothers ; and our pipes of peace the traditional Taylor soup and bread and cheese . |
| 11 | Although it is true that some fathers are involved with their children for seconds in a day rather than hours or even minutes , their presence can encourage confidence to make those expeditions and explorations which are vital to the process of child development . |
| 12 | The students dissected donkeys rather than horses and even Coleman used donkey material to demonstrate horse muscles . |
| 13 | Fish which feel the need can always nibble at a plant that will help them , in the same way that cows and even dogs know which herbs to eat when they are ill . |
| 14 | The single-level assumption appears to be given up somewhere between age two and three years , as children grasp the fact that categories and hence labels for categories may be organized as taxonomies with several levels . |
| 15 | Dorothea had never considered the world was a better place for her own existence and activities but surely Alida could feel just that ? |
| 16 | A week 's issue was missed after a spate of illness and walk-outs and eventually IPC agreed to give the paper its head and sanction a move to Carnaby Street . |
| 17 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 18 | These correspondences indicate the rapidity with which writers and compilers but also printers and publishers were able to respond to developing events . |
| 19 | Pigeons are derived from the Rock Dove and which nested and perched in cliff side and buildings are the nearest thing so I the pigeons are n't really an argument and you do if you want proper birds in the city centre such as thrushes and blackbirds and even sparrows you need real trees to encourage them and the these trees are fairly mature and helpful . |
| 20 | Firstly , the imperative to examine not only disabilities , needs and risks but also abilities , strengths and resources may , of itself , create an important climate of empowerment which will influence the manner in which assessment is conducted and the methods used to collect information , particularly from older people themselves . |
| 21 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 22 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 23 | However , the viability and success of the colleges and institutes as primarily institutions of higher education is open to question . |
| 24 | It 's a list of worries and concerns and maybe solutions . |
| 25 | Somewhere in the back of her mind she had thought there would be champagne and strawberries and maybe silk sheets . |
| 26 | You can link a graphic to each text record which makes it ideal for storing part no 's and descriptions or even staff records with images . |
| 27 | It also holds monthly meetings , and being made up solely of people with an interest in children 's books — mainly publishers and booksellers but also authors , illustrators , agents and critics — it is a useful talking shop with no particular stance or axe to grind . |
| 28 | Such distant resources usually comprised woodland , commons and wastes and sometimes meadowland . |
| 29 | Not only novels and stories but also information books , biographies , poems and plays , and films and TV programmes that explore emotionally and intellectually personality and social life contribute to this process of self-exploration . |
| 30 | Can we really assume that the birds and monkeys and also mantids are such wonderful observers ( or that some very clever ones among them are ) to notice a " remote " resemblance and be repelled by it ? |