Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 2 | We seem to be seeing , in the fossils , an arms race , or rather a series of restarting arms races , between carnivores and herbivores . |
| 3 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 4 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 5 | Hiding in one or other of these ways may ‘ work ’ , in that the self-recriminations that the injunctions breed , or rather the awareness of them , is reduced to manageable levels . |
| 6 | We refer to this ratio , or rather the ratio of the tangents of the two angles , as the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) . |
| 7 | Paddy looked towards heaven — or rather the ceiling of the educational institution in which he found himself . |
| 8 | Whichever theory is correct , we can only be sure of the distribution of the tiger today , or rather the day before yesterday . |
| 9 | Watch this space — or rather the space on the backs of those notes . |
| 10 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |
| 11 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 12 | But the residents are the problem , or rather the lack of them . |
| 13 | Discussion of Sandra 's sex-life could easily stray into the area of his and Marjorie 's sex-life , or rather the lack of it , and he would rather not go into that . |
| 14 | Scriptural authority , or rather the lack of it , is at the heart of the difficulties experienced , for example , by The Churches ' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies . |
| 15 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |
| 16 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 17 | The British Mountaineering Council , in a letter to the prince from Access and Conservation Officer Bill Wright , state that ‘ We are most concerned about the effect the restrictions [ on live firing ] , or rather the lack of them , will have on the area of Willsworthy — this is an area of considerable interest to hill walkers from the South of England . ’ |
| 18 | It concerns finger |
| 19 | This concerns finger |
| 20 | It came to him that what really troubled him was motive , or rather the lack of what he considered to be a convincing motive for the killing . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to bother you , ’ he reflected curiously , ‘ my work — or rather the lack of it . |
| 22 | Ever since they 'd first become friends she 'd been obsessed with Shannon 's love-life , or rather the lack of it . |
| 23 | As you are all probably aware , Death Trap , originally planned for February , had to be scrapped despite valiant efforts by the casting committee and John the directors get around the problem of the men or rather the lack of them . |
| 24 | The master manufacturers of Manchester wish that prices might always be high enough to enforce a general industry ; to keep the hands employed six days for a week 's work ; as they find that even one idle day , in the chance of it being a drunken one , damages all the other five , or rather the work of them . |
| 25 | Thanks to his efforts — or rather the efforts of a couple of socially mobile former PR girls who worked for him — several fortunes were directed , with maximum publicity , into the coffers of the needy . |
| 26 | Or rather the mid-evening of that fateful night . |
| 27 | The significance of autonomy ( or rather the threat of its loss ) in relation to crime control is generally recognised because of its association with imprisonment . |
| 28 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 29 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 30 | But it is another matter to use these ideas , or rather the names of their originators , primarily as weapons against an insular establishment . |