Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 2 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 3 | We would go out to lunch or perhaps look around a stately home — life became extremely rich because we could control Ruth 's pain with morphine . |
| 4 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 5 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 6 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |
| 7 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 8 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |
| 9 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation and human suffering . |
| 10 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation , and human suffering . |
| 11 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 12 | Leigh Environmental now had six months to lodge an appeal with the Minister of the Environment , who would decide whether or not to set up a Public Enquiry . |
| 13 | I have alerted the Director of Education to the likelihood that a decision on whether or not to take up the school site might need to be taken sooner than originally thought . |
| 14 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 15 | WANTED ON VOYAGE WHETHER YOU 'RE SAILING , STROLLING OR JUST SOAKING UP THE RAYS , SUMMER 'S ESSENTIAL DRESSING STARTS HERE |
| 16 | ‘ Are youse ordering , or just blocking up the bar ? ’ said a smiling , thirsty man . |
| 17 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 18 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 19 | Instead of spending $7 million on back-up equipment to catch the particles that its existing scrubbing plant could not cope with , it spent $1.7 million by periodically spraying its outdoor piles of iron ore and coal , by paving or periodically wetting down the company roads , by planting trees and grass to trap wind-blown particulates , and arranging shuttle buses so that employees reduced the use of their own vehicles around the site . |
| 20 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 21 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |
| 22 | Talking can often get us out of sticky situations : talking sense to somebody , calming an explosive situation , giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride , or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise . |
| 23 | Alternatively , you could decorate the order of service , if one was printed , or even write out the words of one of the hymns used and frame it with a selection of the pressed flowers . |
| 24 | The shape of a hill might be altered by the construction of earthworks , or even taking off a pointed peak . |
| 25 | He had not won an election , sung an aria , or even built up a business empire . |
| 26 | Make these sweet juicy fruits your summer choice for healthy snacks , desserts or even jazzing up a roast |
| 27 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 28 | You 'll never be short of things to do in Dublin — whether it 's shopping in its modern centre , or simply relaxing over a Guinness in one of the city 's excellent pubs . |
| 29 | They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses . |
| 30 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |