Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 2 | This also contravenes the model , or rather the model does not fit what common sense tells us . |
| 3 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 4 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 6 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 8 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 9 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 10 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
| 11 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
| 12 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |
| 13 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
| 14 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available , and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
| 15 | ‘ Like Fitzosbert , he liked young boys , the softer and more pliant the better , or so the whisper says . |
| 16 | Or so the world calls it . |
| 17 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
| 18 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |
| 19 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 20 | John Allison , formidable fund raiser for muscular dystrophy research , has 3,000 plastic duckettes in his garage ( or so the canard has it . ) |
| 21 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 22 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 23 | After an hour or more the dancing stops . |
| 24 | If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn . |
| 25 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 26 | Even I was pelted with a couple of little pointed things from the TV Times and was heard to admit that ‘ awards are like haemorrhoids — sooner or later every bum gets one ’ . |
| 27 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 28 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 29 | The structure of the society , too , may vary from a large extended family system where care for all dependants — the young , the elderly , the mentally handicapped , the ill — is shared , to the small nuclear family , typical of the Western world , where often the state has taken over many of the traditional caring activities of the family , with their attendant safety aspects . |
| 30 | It should never be taken hastily or immediately a crisis arises in the life of an elderly person , such as bereavement or a sudden illness or depression , for grief usually passes to some extent after a period of supported mourning . |