Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then contact either on or on for further details . |
| 2 | In order to understand the workings of ecclesiastical power , it is necessary to consider it in context , or rather in two contexts ; the relations of a bishop with the king and with the leading figures of the diocese . |
| 3 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 4 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 5 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 6 | any activity reserved to solicitors ( whether solely or together with other persons ) by the Solicitors Act 1974 or any other statute ; or |
| 7 | Three-quarters of all activities were ones carried out by the husband or wife alone or together with other members of the household . |
| 8 | We must ask how attractive that ideal really is , how well the conception serves it , and whether it can be served as well or better through other conceptions of law . |
| 9 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 11 | In that case it is legitimate to require some special process of constitutional amendment say that the legislature may amend the Constitution only by a two-thirds majority or after a general election or perhaps upon three months ' notice . |
| 12 | Its main potential would seem to lie in its use by individuals working alone or perhaps in small groups , and this requires a very different approach to materials design . |
| 13 | It is as though these translators were each construing the poem by supplying a vocabulary reflecting a personal perception of the poet 's intention — or perhaps in some cases caught from other translators . |
| 14 | It was a national union , but it was a crime more or less with some bosses to belong to a trade union . |
| 15 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 16 | Any frost of -4°C or less at 0.3 metres above the ground will affect the vine . |
| 17 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 18 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 19 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 20 | Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles . |
| 21 | Select part , or all , of the following paragraphs , according to whether the parties have been recently widowed/divorced or alone for many years . ) |
| 22 | Hundreds of thousands , or , or much less these days ? |
| 23 | Well I went in a choir , I could never sing , and I still ca n't , and er the choir used to go out quite a lot , and er we cycled and we youth-hostelled , even as w or in on working parties , at some of the peak hostels . |
| 24 | Obscene letters and telephoning , in which an inadequate individual gains satisfaction mainly or entirely by these activities . |
| 25 | As a guide , there are roughly six glasses to a bottle of wine , 25 measures to a 70cl bottle of spirits and four glasses , or enough for six mixers in a 500ml/18fl oz bottle of tonic . |
| 26 | Essences are used as a periodic treatment ; either once a week or daily for two weeks with a three to four week interval before resuming again . |
| 27 | Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road . |
| 28 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 29 | Their beautiful home on Belmont Avenue was ‘ open house ’ to a score or so of young friends on Saturday evenings , when Lawren and Bess entertained with concerts of symphonic recordings , serving coffee and biscuits . |
| 30 | Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that . |