Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 2 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 3 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 4 | And journeys in Indonesia , India , America and Hell — or rather the Costa del Sol . |
| 5 | The pair are planning to introduce and ship a line of four models this summer including a low-end colour unit priced under the $2,000 barrier and a monochrome unit that will equal or better the $1,000 price tag on Visual 's current entry level . |
| 6 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 7 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 8 | The adventurers could use the information to denounce the suppliers to the authorities and hope for a reward ( or perhaps a Chaos cult declaring war on them ) , or less scrupulous characters might turn to blackmail , either for money or for magical training . |
| 9 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
| 10 | In general , the photograph will be protected by copyright which will be owned by the publisher or perhaps a freelance photographer . |
| 11 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 12 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 13 | or perhaps a quiz show that started then , you know . |
| 14 | Or perhaps a 25p glass of Coke is better ? |
| 15 | Or perhaps the diaphragm needs replacing . |
| 16 | Also ships carrying dangerous cargoes in sensitive waters , for example an area similar to where the went ashore or perhaps the Dover Straits where cargo collisions have been reduced by eighty percent since radar surveillance was introduced . |
| 17 | They recognised him , or perhaps the gold band round his helmet . |
| 18 | Or perhaps the phone boxes were all vandalised . |
| 19 | Or perhaps the deputy editor Simon Heffer — who penned the tribute — was confusing ‘ legendary ’ charm with ‘ mythical ’ charm . |
| 20 | or perhaps the sports grounds down there |
| 21 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 22 | Or perhaps the transition adventure was just a ripple on the ocean of complexity in which all newcomers to the Course must quickly learn to sink or swim . |
| 23 | Today we see this in terms of which places have the shops , local school , or perhaps the parish church . |
| 24 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 25 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 26 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 27 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 28 | And this was er more or less the trade union business . |
| 29 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 30 | ‘ The thing is her song is more or less the Dublin anthem , she is a link to the past , to our parents and our grandparents . ’ |