Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 2 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 3 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 4 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 5 | It did n't matter where so long as it was cheap . |
| 6 | New studies show that targetting normal genes using viral and other systems to enter cells ( from marrow , the lung and gut , liver and skin ) may be easier than at first thought , and that DNA will function more or less normally once it gets into the cell . |
| 7 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 8 | At one moment we were all saying more or less volubly that he could not possibly succeed ; the next we found ourselves travelling along behind him " . |
| 9 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 10 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 11 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 12 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 13 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 14 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 16 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 17 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 18 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 19 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 20 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 21 | So I said well I said , I usually try to get here quarter past ten or soon after but it all depends on traffic because I live the other end of the town . |
| 22 | Reapply thickly every hour , or more frequently if they are in and out of the water . |
| 23 | We do not think the criterion can be put any better or more clearly than it is put in R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) and would hold that , on the true construction of the 18 February 1985 mortgage , the defendants are entitled to be paid or to retain out of the mortgaged property all their actual costs , charges and expenses ( including the receivers ' remuneration ) except in so far they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and with any doubts as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or are reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the defendants . |
| 24 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 25 | The tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan had no family responsibilities and so could live away from home for two or three years and could return home every eight weeks or more often if he chose to pay his own fare . |
| 26 | Patients were given meperidine ( Demerol ) or diazepam ( Valium ) , or both intravenously if they experienced discomfort . |
| 27 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Power levels control the amount of microwave energy entering the oven , so food can be cooked as quickly or as slowly as you like . |
| 29 | It is usually they who made the choice to have and keep their babies , even though this does not always work out as happily or as easily as they may anticipate , and they deserve recognition and respect . |
| 30 | The classical continuity which remains for the plucked string is that each of its harmonics can be sounded as softly or as loudly as we please . |