Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , for instance , that a Social Class V woman ( or rather a woman married to a Social Class V man ) has less of a chance of having a healthy child who will reach adulthood than a woman who is married to a man in Social Class I. |
| 2 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 3 | Either the salt would sting into a cut or raw spot on my body , bringing back bodily feeling in one fell swoop , or else , from somewhere in the bowels of building , my ears , questing for the remotest of stimuli , would pick up on the sound of a toilet being flushed , or perhaps a trolley banging against a wall . |
| 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 | Or perhaps a tongue stuck out would be even more so . |
| 6 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 7 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 8 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 9 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 10 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 11 | But how do you know when you 're eighteen , whatever , is a natural teaching ability or merely a wish to try it ? |
| 12 | Sandison was unsure whether this was an instruction or merely a statement referring to Maidstone 's own approach . |
| 13 | Will this be a problem , or merely a challenge to discover new historiographical methods ? |
| 14 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
| 15 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 16 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
| 17 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 18 | She should swop the boy on the pavement for an empty room painted white , or possibly a vase filled with lilies . |
| 19 | If liability is not in dispute , the action can simply be stood out by agreement or an application made to the judge of the lists , or to the judge on circuit , for a standing-out order , or possibly an application made to claim provisional damages ; but if liability is still in dispute the action must be tried and ought to be heard as soon as possible , irrespective of the uncertainties on quantum . |
| 20 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |
| 21 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sooner or later an approach shot to one of the closely guarded greens will nestle near the hole and suddenly all is right with the world . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In early books this often occurs in the form of a cipher , initials incorporated in the decoration , or even a name stamped in blind . |
| 26 | ‘ I speak at customer sales meetings to help them understand what Tencel is all about as well as prepare trade advertising or even a video to assist our mill customers launch their Tencel fabric collections . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 28 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 29 | The cutting length of the blades on the GTC380 is 380mm ( 15in ) , making the trimmer suitable for small to average hedging tasks , If you own a half-acre garden with hedging , the more labour-saving 500 or 610mm ( 20 or 24in ) cutting capacities of corded models are a better option , or even a petrol powered trimmer . |
| 30 | It is as if governments , having been given the gifts of technology , set them loose without an idea of how or even a wish to restrain them . |