Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun sg] [verb] " 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 | If hamlet ( or rather the actor playing him ) , catches a frog in his throat during a soliloquy , since one is experiencing a human drama this need n't be in the least distracting — indeed the element of human fallibility and frailty thus introduced could even enhance the impact of the performance ( admittedly it could also be unintentionally quite hilarious ) ! |
| 4 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 5 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 6 | Could it be the years of experience it takes to know where the grape is just ripe or perhaps the skill needed to reach that perfectly balanced wine . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 10 | Ruth was n't conscious of moving , but perhaps she shivered — or perhaps the light touched her , reminding Fincara she was there . |
| 11 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 12 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 13 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 14 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 17 | Dizzy Liston had won the cruiser on a bet , or so the story went . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
| 20 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Like Fitzosbert , he liked young boys , the softer and more pliant the better , or so the whisper says . |
| 24 | Suicides , or so the coroner declared . ’ |
| 25 | Or so the world calls it . |
| 26 | She was the girl with everything — fame , riches and most of all the undiluted love of her new husband — or so the world believed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Or so the packet said . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |