Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone in the SSD can shed any light on the matter , or better still on the origins of the letter , she or he will immediately be nominated reader of the week , be the envy of all and sundry , and receive a special prize . |
| 2 | Some interest in listening to music on record , or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed . |
| 3 | This can be caused by the disordered packing of chains in the amorphous glassy phase , and a random distribution of the available free volume , or perhaps even by the random coil structure of the chain itself causing local environmental changes . |
| 4 | The controversy will disappear once all the member states introduce equivalent conduct of business rules but that is unlikely to be achieved in the short or perhaps even in the medium term . |
| 5 | Or perhaps just above the arms of the scissors . |
| 6 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 7 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 8 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 9 | These techniques were based on theories of human motivation related more or less closely to the work of Maslow ( 1943 ) . |
| 10 | In subject curriculum development , schemes in Mathematics , Science and English predominated , a number being linked more or less closely with the EDC 's African Education projects described earlier , but some , like the UNESCO sponsored science project in the Bendel State of Nigeria , of different parentage and philosophy . |
| 11 | ‘ it came into being not as an essential part of a theory of the law of contract but more or less fortuitously as an expedient adopted in order to determine when persons injured by the breach of a promise ought to be allowed to bring an action ’ ( paragraph 18 of the 6th interim report of the Law Revision Committee , 1937 Cmd. 5449 ) |
| 12 | The business of designing machines , processes and systems can be pursued more or less independently of the properties of people . |
| 13 | They are not the " easy to move " people , they are not people who can live more or less independently in the Community . |
| 14 | If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost . |
| 15 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 16 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 17 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 18 | Such a zone extends more or less continuously around the western , northern and eastern margins of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 19 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 20 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 21 | Far to the south , Britons tucked into curry and mulligatawny soup , both transliterated more or less straight from the language of Madras . |
| 22 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 23 | There is a relatively small administrative staff , all employed at the company 's St Helens head office , and a number of brewery workers who are split more or less equally between the St Helens and Northwich sites . |
| 24 | But in a large group where all actors stand to gain more or less equally from the group 's success , it can be very hard indeed to organize any collective action . |
| 25 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 26 | In a typical monogamous bird like the robin , the male and female stay more or less apart during the non-breeding season , and only pair up shortly before breeding . |
| 27 | Suppose a propensity to react more or less negatively to the environment is inherited , but is also affected by environmental circumstances . |
| 28 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 29 | If the glider is facing more or less directly into the wind , and there is a pilot in the cockpit , it is just as safe as it would be after a normal landing . |
| 30 | The first change , the move to theism , happened in 1929 and coincided more or less directly with the death of his father . |