Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke at its election meetings and worked actively on its behalf , or rather on behalf of his own views which he sought to spread through the party . |
| 2 | Some patients may need drug therapy at diagnosis if they are thin and have lost much weight with severe hyperglycaemia , are very symptomatic or perhaps with evidence of infection . |
| 3 | Behind , or perhaps in front of , all the ideals and theories there was a sound technical base which , under Bernard 's tutelage , was also entering a phase of significant growth . |
| 4 | Standardised mortality ratios for cardiovascular disease fell from 119 in men who weighed 5.5 pounds ( 2495 g ) or less at birth to 74 in men who weighed more than 8.5 pounds ( 3856 g ) . |
| 5 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 6 | At first , Jackson had seemed more or less at ease with her . |
| 7 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 9 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 10 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 11 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 12 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 13 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 14 | You may be maintaining your profits more or less in line with inflation , and hence giving a spurious impression of growth . |
| 15 | M46 and M47 are close together , more or less in line with Beta Canis Majoris and Sirius ; they are not spectacular , but are easy to locate . |
| 16 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 17 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 18 | She was quite mature in her answers , and as you will see from Document A , sir , the Visitor got the impression — we have to rely on their experience in this sort of judgement — ; that she was more or less in command of the situation and had gained poise and experience from it and that a second traumatic removal from what in fact was a secure home for her would at this stage do more harm than good , especially as the relationship between the girl and her father was not good . |
| 19 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 20 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 21 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 22 | To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw . |
| 23 | Ominously too , instead of staying within a mile or so of home like normal dogs , they turn into restless wanderers , propagating the virus far afield . |
| 24 | Leave another yard or so of rope above the bottle . |
| 25 | Plungers require 75mm ( 3in ) or so of water in the sink to make them work . |
| 26 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 27 | Raima 's appeal is to technical users writing complex applications rather than the packaged market , and Unix sales now account for 20% or so of business in the UK . |
| 28 | In that case so can you or I. The next point is that the special rennet that professional cheese-making demands is available only in bulk , and therefore — since only a teaspoonful or so per half-gallon of milk is required — of little use for making cheese at home . |
| 29 | During the 1860s , the miller at Alstone Lower Mills was Fredrick Boulter , replaced towards the close of the century by George Gardner , a decade or so before resident at Arle Mill . |
| 30 | According to the proximity readout , the capsule was only a kilometre or so from contact with the surface of Tarvaras . |