Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , many solicitors are incompetent , and leave important matters to unsupervised articled clerks or inadequately trained legal executives . |
| 2 | tripping over electric cables or badly placed electric fires ; |
| 3 | They crowded whatever elevators still worked or wearily scaled buckled stairways or girders . |
| 4 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 5 | But S. Luria — who proposed , or rather re-proposed this conjecture ( Acta Antiqua 8 ( 1960 ) , 265–6 ) — had to postulate that Alcaeus called Jerusalem Hierosylyma , not Hierosolyma , and his only evidence for this was an etymological joke with antisemitic undertones quoted by Josephus ( c . |
| 6 | Secondly , there are offences intended to prevent anyone wrongly claiming to have supplied goods to the Queen ( or to anyone else ) or wrongly claiming royal approval , e.g. by displaying an emblem resembling that of the Queen 's Award to Industry . |
| 7 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 8 | MOST LARGE PRODUCERS have their own presshouses conveniently situated in the vineyards , otherwise growers take their grapes to co-operative presshouses or perhaps make private arrangements with other producers . |
| 9 | If you are lucky enough to own any old sepia family photographs , it can look extremely attractive to arrange a collection of them on a wall , as you can then give them all co-ordinating mounts that are decorated with your favourite pressed flowers , or perhaps choose some flowers that are appropriate to the family . |
| 10 | Or perhaps established literary figures enjoy a certain immunity from such cranky zeal . |
| 11 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 12 | I 've more or less lost that sense of being with Arthur . |
| 13 | As Aldous Huxley more or less said 40 years ago in The Doors of Perception , as he turned away from the exploding Red Hot Peppers : is n't alcohol a bloody awful drug ? |
| 14 | A system that connects a single vendor 's range of products — and which can be adapted more or less to handle other vendors ' offerings . |
| 15 | There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events . |
| 16 | The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing . |
| 17 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 18 | The new or greatly expanded extractive industries needed pit props ; iron smelting , at least until Abraham Darby discovered the use of coke in 1709 , required charcoal ; and other industries such as glass-making , tanning and salt-making all required timber for various reasons . |
| 19 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 20 | They usually involve a combination of the following organisational arrangements : ( 1 ) The physical separation of the various departments , often extending to matters of detail such as dining arrangements ; ( 2 ) An educational programme normally recurring to emphasise the importance of not improperly or inadvertently divulging confidential information ; ( 3 ) Strict and carefully defined procedures for dealing with a situation where it is considered that the wall should be crossed and the maintaining of proper records where this occurs : ( 4 ) Monitoring by compliance officers of the effectiveness of the wall , including the monitoring of employee trading ; and ( 5 ) Disciplinary sanctions where there has been an improper breach of the wall . |
| 21 | Had n't scattered monogrammed handkerchiefs about or faked alibis or carelessly dropped dated train tickets or shown knowledge he should n't have had . |
| 22 | After a minute or so repeat this procedure if necessary . |
| 23 | These tourists ordered not only busts of themselves but replicas and versions of the artist 's fourteen or so separate ideal works including : ‘ Eve Tempted ’ ( 1839–42 ) ; the ‘ Greek Slave ’ ( 1841–1843 ) ; ‘ Proserpine ’ ( 1843 ; 1844–49 ) ; ‘ America ’ ( 1848–9 ) and ‘ California ’ ( 1850 ) . |
| 24 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 25 | Do you have a friendly dog , and an hour or so spare each week ? |
| 26 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 27 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 28 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 29 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 30 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |