Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These results are similar to those of Heyderman et al , who found that 20 out of 22 primary pancreatic tumours focally or weakly stained for carcinoembryonic antigen .
2 We do n't want to be murdered , raped , robbed , assaulted , or criminally victimized in any other way .
3 8.2 No failure , delay or indulgence on the part of either party to the other in exercising any power or right conferred upon that party in this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of such power or right .
4 In practice , viewers preferred to wait and see — or rather wait for other people to see — before converting their TV sets to receive the new signal .
5 Going in to , or rather going up High Street in to High Street from the erm Freemans Way , you know ?
6 All marched , or rather advanced in small steps , zigzagging as if intoxicated …
7 The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements .
8 By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli .
9 Other origins for the structure might be as well or better served by hot dark matter .
10 Martial acts might also be more dramatic or better recorded for wider public esteem .
11 This , therefore , I can not but earnestly repeat , — Break their wills betimes ; begin this great work before they can run alone before they can speak plain , or perhaps speak at all .
12 Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps .
13 The relative risk of impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes , for example , was six times higher in men with birth weights of 5.5 pounds ( 2495 g ) or less compared with those with birth weights of more than 9.5 pounds ( 4309 g ) .
14 Overlap in a given situation is more or less tolerated in some societies than in others .
15 All of these problems were more or less overcome by ingenious chemical manipulation , so that a very wide range of semi-synthetic penicillins have become available .
16 Since the female workers were not in fact very much worse qualified or less experienced on average than the males , there was not much of the gap explained on these counts .
17 Number of blocks with a working interest of 10 per cent or less reduced by 42 per cent .
18 Very high rates of tariff covering about 7 per cent of goods in the United States and United Kingdom almost disappeared , and the proportion of trade ( excluding agriculture and fuels ) which attracted tariffs of 15 per cent or less rose from 54 per cent to 85 per cent in the USA , from 37 per cent to 85 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 71 per cent to 97 per cent for the EEC .
19 But it was one more fact to add to the picture of Ted Mosse , that ambiguous figure who was heavily disliked in one street , a doubtful ‘ poor old fellow ’ in another , and more or less mistrusted in all three .
20 I think I can more or less understand in general terms what happens up until sort of the impressionist time , maybe just post-impressionist .
21 Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul .
22 With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate .
23 A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another .
24 Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma .
25 Secondly , private investors had their own ideas about where they wanted to place their capital , which did not always or necessarily coincide with those of the Spanish regime .
26 A possible explanation is the accumulation of vasoactive substances of splanchnic origin in the systemic circulation that are either metabolised by the normal liver or abnormally released during acute liver failure .
27 If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) .
28 They are part of the team , albeit a step or so removed from direct involvement .
29 An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work .
30 MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 .
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