Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And journeys in Indonesia , India , America and Hell — or rather the Costa del Sol . |
| 2 | While endless argument could be engaged upon on the question whether or not the United Kingdom has a constitution , perhaps a more profitable issue for consideration is whether the system of government in the United Kingdom displays congruence with certain values , principles and concepts associated with constitutional government in a liberal democratic state . |
| 3 | But there was a great thing about the Prince Albert — whether or not the Prince Albert would let people in who were punks . |
| 4 | In Japan , we must be getting to a time when equities are worth buying , so , on a five-year basis , I would choose the Schroder Japan Smaller Companies which has a good reputation , or possibly the Schroder Tokyo fund . |
| 5 | Much of it , however , sounds like a looser version of one of the little blues bands with which Blythe started out , or even a New Orleans marching band . |
| 6 | Indubitably , Buzzcocks will hardly figure strongly — or even weakly — in the NME poll , and in these dark days when Patti Smith , Loudon Wainwright or even the New York Dolls fail to make any impact on Radio One DJs , common sense is therefore not so common . |
| 7 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 8 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 9 | With the sun slanting through the window , giving your hair a reddish glow and shadowing your face , you could be a Reubens come to life , or maybe a Van Dyck . |
| 10 | Win either a Vision Gator deck , or maybe an SMA Alan Peterson , or maybe the brand new Powell Cab deck ! |
| 11 | ‘ Or maybe the Tsé Yang ? ’ |
| 12 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 13 | In addition to the other help the Saudis were providing to Iraq in different forms , including loans of oil , they allowed Iraq to construct a 500,000 b/d spur line to link up with Petroline and thence the Red Sea . |
| 14 | Six were interviewed , and eventually the Rev. William Alfred Pemberton , an Oxford graduate , was appointed , as from 1st January 1888 . |
| 15 | If it comes to pass , Sun , which wishes it had done the deal with Novell , and presumably The Santa Cruz Operation — though see page 4 — wo n't be happy . |
| 16 | Solaris release schedules are another victim of SunSoft 's process change , although according to Bourne , one further revision is required to achieve simultaneous , worldwide Solaris releases on Sparc and Intel Corp iAPX-86 systems ( and presumably the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC in future too ) . |
| 17 | The heat capacity of this is negligible and so the term Cvessel in equation ( 5 ) can be ignored . |
| 18 | There are no written vowel letters in Hebrew and so the words Nazara ( as it was originally ) and Nezer would appear as the same word , simply ‘ N Z R ’ . |
| 19 | A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain . |
| 20 | The only political figures of importance to be even slightly influenced by ideas of this kind were the Marquis d'Argenson , who controlled French foreign policy , with small practical success , in the years 1744–47 , and perhaps the Comte de Vergennes , who occupied a similar position in 1774 – 87 . |
| 21 | The kenyapithecins are represented by the humerus from Fort Ternan , undescribed remains from Pasalar and perhaps the Klein Hadersdorf specimens . |
| 22 | It is true that the Romans had constructed two or three artificial waterways in this country large enough to be regarded as canals : Car Dike that winds from Peterborough up to Lincoln , the Foss Dike joining the Witham and the Trent , and perhaps the Itchen Dike from Winchester to the Itchen . |
| 23 | A sense of his own arrogant stupidity blended with the shame : he had underrated Henry , and perhaps the I Ching as well . |
| 24 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 25 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 26 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 27 | During summer loose pack ice from the Arctic Ocean streams southward through the Greenland Sea and down the east Greenland coast ; lesser streams pass from the Barents Sea to the Norwegian Sea and from Baffin Bay down the Labrador coast , ultimately to melt in the warmer waters of the north Atlantic Ocean . |
| 28 | I wish I could believe he 'd come by it honestly , driving his lorry up and down the Great North Road . ’ |
| 29 | This was the traditional end to the race before the last stage was moved in 1975 to provide the spectacle of the bronzed and battle-weary riders in a final surge up and down the Champs Elysées . |
| 30 | She had done a total of 62 test runs , past the measured mile up and down the Baltic Sea coast near the port of Kiel , with a full load of coal ( 350 tonnes ) . |