Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps the diaphragm needs replacing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Or perhaps the phone boxes were all vandalised . |
| 4 | or perhaps the sports grounds down there |
| 5 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 6 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
| 7 | ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us . |
| 8 | Thus , true poetry is an entity to which the property POETRY truly applies , while Charlie 's old school is an entity such that the relation between it and the description CHARLIE 'S SCHOOL belongs to the time labelled by the word " old " , and a certain winner ( when not used with the indefinite sense ) is an entity of whom or which the description WINNER certainly holds ( or so the gambler hopes ) . |
| 9 | Desktop publishing is dead , or so the marketing men would have us all believe . |
| 10 | It requires recognition of a debit minority interest whether or not the minority shareholders have a binding obligation to make good the losses incurred . |
| 11 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 12 | With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work . |
| 13 | The event itself , one of the first to be conducted by the CNAA 's new IFS Board , was an archetype of the theatre of validation , with 120 people at one stage sitting in the Polytechnic boardroom discussing whether or not the course regulations met Principle 3 of the CNAA 's own regulations ( about the balance and nature of the course of study ) . |
| 14 | But we are stuck with it until it is won in a manner suitable to Bush , whether or not the UN conditions have been met . |
| 15 | Whether or not the NATO powers are able to subscribe to a formal doctrine of ‘ no first use ’ , there is little doubt that they urgently need to get away from their present highly questionable doctrine of heavy reliance on first use . |
| 16 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 17 | Whether or not the neurone fires and how rapidly it fires depends on which signal predominates from moment to moment at the junction of the cell body and the axon . |
| 18 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 19 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 20 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 21 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 22 | Nor is it necessarily good practice to see a client as often as possible or whenever the client wishes . |
| 23 | If your machine has a VGA card with a Trident , Oak or even a Tseng Labs chipset , then its performance wo n't be fantastic . |
| 24 | Herbaceous borders or mixed borders , or even the island beds of herbaceous perennials which make an interesting alternative , are a standard feature in many gardens , but few garden-owners take the word " herbaceous " literally and grow nothing but herbs in their beds or borders . |
| 25 | But I will take such things as the brickwork , or maybe the roof tiles into account , and work to achieve a complementary landscape . ’ |
| 26 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 27 | This upper part of Saint-Jean also has sections of the old ramparts , which are quite tame as these things go and now thoroughly civilian , overlooking as they do the main street or else the minute gardens of the houses of the old quarter . |
| 28 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 29 | at a level cross , at a level crossing or where the road bends , or approach to any pedestrian crossing . |
| 30 | But it is stars of the theatrical and cinematic world — or certainly the matinee idols of that world — who still regard the term with such anxiety . |