Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | after er sort of I 'd more or less half a second and I thought oh he 's come back again |
| 8 | Well it was one big bedroom but there was more or less like a loft . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well-laid hedges of thorn , hazel , holly , or beech ( or more generally a mixture of several species ) form very effective barriers , and provide shelter for livestock and a habitat for wild life . |
| 13 | Within Kent itself it may be possible to identify a shift , or more probably a division , of power through the distribution and date of certain imports . |
| 14 | Benzene is possibly a chain with triple bonds or more probably a ring compound with double bonds ( see fig 3.1 ) . |
| 15 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 16 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 17 | The control structure of any organization consists , by and large , of a definition of the relationships between controllability and responsibility , or more precisely a specification of which managers are responsible for which resources in the organization . |
| 18 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 19 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |
| 20 | The main part of the animal consists of a cup ( or calyx ) to which the stalk is attached at its upper end , and from the top of the calyx stretch long arms , which are five in number or more usually a multiple of five . |
| 21 | We began with the idea that a causal circumstance consists in a set of conditions including a cause or causes-more precisely a set of individual properties-each being ( 1 , 1a ) required or alternatively required for the effect . |
| 22 | Many schools are unlikely , therefore , to be able to offer their pupils as rich an experience of choral singing or as wide a repertoire of religious vocal music , as once they did . |
| 23 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 24 | Their proposals are for a traffic-calming ramp or similar device , or even just a sign reminding drivers of the speed limit . |
| 25 | He was n't just an actor or even just a movie star . |
| 26 | Moreover , the reliability may mean that a tradesman only sees one example of a particular circuit board each month or even only a couple a year . |
| 27 | But I 'm getting a bit bad really because I 'm looking forward to doing two wars a year , and if I start looking forward to doing two or even more a year I 'm not going to survive . ’ |
| 28 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 29 | In the industrialised world , shift workers may change their sleeping hours every week or even twice a week . |
| 30 | They 've trained in addition to the once a month or even twice a month , they 've trained whenever their duties allowed . |