Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near the Place des Greves , or rather the square close to it , a great crowd had gathered to witness an execution . |
| 2 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 3 | Tomorrow or possibly the day after , you may find that the redevelopment work has begun . |
| 4 | And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after . |
| 5 | WITH the object and intent of affording to the Vendor a full and sufficient indemnity but not further or otherwise the Purchaser hereby covenants with the Vendor that he the Purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will at all times hereafter duly observe and perform the covenants contained or referred to in the Conveyance so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and remain to be observed and performed and are capable of being enforced and will indemnity and keep indemnified the Vendor and his successors in title from and against all actions costs claims and demands in respect of any breach non-observance or non-performance thereof so far as aforesaid |
| 6 | So the urge to innovate ceased and eventually the instrument all but died . |
| 7 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 8 | Loans are intended to supplement finance obtained from other sources , and so the EIB only lends up to 40 per cent of the cost of fixed investments of a project with a minimum size of around £1 million . |
| 9 | But the County Council still has some longer term debt , not external but internally , that is being paid now and not over time , and so the position actually will not change , so long as the Council continues to have more credit approval than it requires to use the new borrowing . |
| 10 | For example some mothers feel very embarrassed about reprimanding their child or dealing with a tantrum in public and so the child rapidly learns that a tantrum could produce sweets if enough fuss is created ( McAuley and McAuley 1977 ) . |
| 11 | When he died , the legacy had not yet vested , and so the trust too ought to be ineffective . |
| 12 | As equation ( 3.17 ) indicates , our measure of expected income is no longer correlated with the error term v t , since v t does not appear in equation ( 3.17 ) , and so the problem no longer occurs . |
| 13 | The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever , and so the Star never arrived in Georgia , and nobody saw the captain or his men again . |
| 14 | And so the house today is ready to face the future , and new generations of young and old will continue to make the special journey from all corners of the earth to see what is justifiably called the most wonderful dolls ' house in the world . |
| 15 | After the long bout of socialism there is bound to be economic instability in Russia and perhaps the way forward would be for those who do not trust the rouble to use barter deals . |
| 16 | Alright , and perhaps the reason why people are migrating when there is very high unemployment is because they do n't realize that there is such high unemployment . |
| 17 | It was a female , explained Bryan , and only the male proudly carries the two extra long black tail feathers . |
| 18 | If you want to protect areas of your picture from accidental damage a window facility is provided and only the area inside can be edited while the window is active . |
| 19 | The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’ |
| 20 | I would never drink them out of choice , and anyway the hangover just is n't worth it , ’ says Steve , a 35-year-old sculptor who drinks nablabs ‘ fairly regularly ’ . |
| 21 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 22 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 23 | Many local authorities are issuing court summonses and spending much time and money trying to persuade them that the poll tax has not been abolished and that it will be with us next year and possibly the year after . |
| 24 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 25 | Because no seismic sources have been detected above sea level in the whole period of observation , we conclude that the fractured region and possibly the intrusion also extend down below sea level . |
| 26 | Case conferences were held , and plans were made to take the children into care and still the mother apparently obstinately refused to look at the future . |
| 27 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
| 28 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
| 29 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 30 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |