Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 2 | And journeys in Indonesia , India , America and Hell — or rather the Costa del Sol . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or perhaps the diaphragm needs replacing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They recognised him , or perhaps the gold band round his helmet . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the phone boxes were all vandalised . |
| 8 | Or perhaps the deputy editor Simon Heffer — who penned the tribute — was confusing ‘ legendary ’ charm with ‘ mythical ’ charm . |
| 9 | or perhaps the sports grounds down there |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Today we see this in terms of which places have the shops , local school , or perhaps the parish church . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 15 | And this was er more or less the trade union business . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 19 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
| 20 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 21 | All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
| 24 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
| 25 | ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully . |
| 28 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 29 | Desktop publishing is dead , or so the marketing men would have us all believe . |
| 30 | Balance occurs when equals or Thus the input resistance at balance comprising ( ) in parallel with ( ) amounts to as required . |