Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preferably wear a skirt or culottes with loose underwear made from natural fibres or better still no underwear at all . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that no one really took us seriously , or perhaps both the Cutter Service and the Investigation Division were still getting their acts together . |
| 3 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 4 | The next book must break new ground , provide new insights , provide a new way of looking , or perhaps even a way of re-seeing the familiar . |
| 5 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 6 | Indeed Jacob values settlements sufficiently to suggest that a power , or perhaps even a duty , should be imposed on the court to promote a settlement or compromise between the parties . |
| 7 | There is a small stone ‘ seat ’ running the length of both walls , but the most important piece of masonry within the building is a stone slab in the centre of the nave that might be an old tomb or perhaps even the site of an old altar . |
| 8 | Some hours before the train is due to leave , a bullock-cart , or camel-cart , or perhaps even an elephant-lorry , arrives at the bungalow , and takes the whole of the load to the station , in charge of the head ‘ boy ’ . |
| 9 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 10 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 11 | This leaves just the name and the logo , or perhaps just the logo at the top of the sheet . |
| 12 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 13 | The pauses had lengthened and Swod 's eyelids drooped more and more frequently , due to fatigue , boredom or perhaps just the sunshine breaking through the clouds and sending the odd flash through the window . |
| 14 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 15 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |
| 16 | The poem is defined , technically , as the ‘ experience of the right kind of reader has when he peruses the verses ’ ( Richards 1926 : 10 ) ) , and the right kind of reader is the one who manages to recreate in himself more or less completely the collection of impulses which the poet expressed in the poem or , more exactly , the ‘ relevant experience of the poet when contemplating the completed composition ’ ( Richards 1967 : 178 ) . |
| 17 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 18 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 19 | If you do this several times in the course of a clutch being laid , you can more or less double the number of chicks . |
| 20 | From then until his death some thirty years later , except for an interval of six years between 1772 and 1778 , Sulivan was more or less continuously a director . |
| 21 | after er sort of I 'd more or less half a second and I thought oh he 's come back again |
| 22 | Well it was one big bedroom but there was more or less like a loft . |
| 23 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 24 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 25 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 26 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 27 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 28 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 29 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 30 | Right , you do n't have er , the climatic conditions , or possibly even the expertise erm , to , to , to sort of , to switch . |