Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 2 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 3 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 4 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 5 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 6 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 7 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 8 | In the late seventeen hundreds or perhaps the early eighteen hundreds ’ |
| 9 | The talks came to grief after the separatists insisted that the government , or perhaps the ruling Socialist party , should publicly acknowledge that its representatives had agreed to negotiate with ETA on the Basque country 's political future . |
| 10 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |
| 11 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 12 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 13 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 14 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 15 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |
| 16 | Over the last 20 years or so a large theoretical literature has been developed to provide tools for the solution of many problems associated with emergency planning ( Kolesar 1981 ) . |
| 17 | It is necessary by way of preface to emphasise that in no circumstances can in-house benefits give rise to no taxable benefit or only a small taxable benefit if that benefit is to be assessed on an average cost basis . |
| 18 | Non measurable standards , that is ones where you can not be certain whether or not a specific desired result has been achieved tend to cause trouble since they are easily challenged . |
| 19 | The problem arises whenever we try to use conscious awareness as a dependent variable : for example , when we want to decide whether or not a particular external event leads to a phenomenal event . |
| 20 | Either the medical report was inconclusive , or ( as illustrated by the sexual abuse controversy in Cleveland in 1987 — 88 ) , medical opinion was divided as to whether or not a particular clinical sign was necessarily indicative or child abuse . |
| 21 | The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate . |
| 22 | We used the human lymphoblastoid B cell-derived mutant T2 line to investigate whether or not the MHC-linked proteasome subunits are essential for MHC class I expression and antigen presentation . |
| 23 | It contains a riveting academic argument about the value of a CSIRO research programme on dung beetles , whether or not the native Australian dung beetle is efficient at removing dung and in the process eating the larvae of the buffalo fly , a scourge of cattle . |
| 24 | Whether or not the projected 18 million visitors materialise , Seville has nothing to lose , and plenty to gain , by hosting the event , a key part of the ‘ Year of Spain ’ . |
| 25 | So the same hardware can provide both a " multiply " and a " multiply-and-add " instruction , depending upon whether or not the initial partial product is zero . |
| 26 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 27 | She had no idea whether it was to be a large gathering , or just a few intimate friends . |
| 28 | ‘ But it was important for us to play together as much as possible , whether it was to a new crowd or just the same old people . |
| 29 | If there is any reason to suspect a possible abnormality in the baby , such as two blood tests showing high levels of alphafetoprotein , or simply if you are over 35 ( older mothers are more likely to have babies with genetic disorders ) , your doctor will offer you an amniocentesis or possibly a chorionic villus test . |
| 30 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |