Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counteract this , an individual generally benefits from continual changes in the type of task being performed as well as continual updating on how well or badly the task is being done . |
| 2 | ‘ The market is a dynamic one and it seems to prove that there was a latent demand for sea travel , but the prices or perhaps the product were not right . ’ |
| 3 | Or perhaps the world is just full of patterns . |
| 4 | Perhaps consistent wins in the obedience ring or in trials by a breeder 's dogs inspires you to want to own a great working dog ; or perhaps the reason is just recommendation from a trusted friend . |
| 5 | Perhaps Sparta , who helped to eject the Cypselids , and tended to favour oligarchies , was better able to influence Corinth , which was closer than Athens ; or perhaps the explanation is just that 506 is much later than 585 when the Cypselids fell . |
| 6 | His quarry might not be back yet , or perhaps the bell was n't working . |
| 7 | Perhaps she did or perhaps the mine is a gathering-together of memories — of being shut in , starved of air , of light , of freedom of mind and body . |
| 8 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 9 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
| 10 | It was the paralysis which caused her death in the end , or so the doctor was to certify ; she died there in the workhouse , aged 70 , on 12 September 1849 . |
| 11 | Parties will then negotiate as to whether once the limit is exceeded the full amount or merely the excess is claimable . |
| 12 | If during this period breath hydrogen increased by 100% or more the test was considered abnormal . |
| 13 | However unless birth control methods are used , sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant . |
| 14 | Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred . |
| 15 | Explicitly or implicitly the suggestion is that women are children or lunatics or whichever other company they keep . |
| 16 | Or maybe the pinkie was skragged as a trophy ? |
| 17 | One source of interest can be a description of where the interview has taken place , perhaps a studio , or maybe the artist 's home . |
| 18 | Or maybe the landscape was his mirror , and he was just seeing himself . |
| 19 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 20 | Either things came out too harshly , heavy , muddy and dull — Mauve called it his ‘ yellow-soap style ’ — or else the tenderness was n't tender enough . |
| 21 | Or else the Devil was there , that particular night , sitting with him . ’ |
| 22 | For thirty minutes he pressed the horse hard , always hoping that his flight would persuade the Dragoons to abandon their pursuit , but the Frenchmen were stubborn , or else the chase was a welcome break in their day 's tedium . |
| 23 | The Weaving Mother must know the beginning and the end of the process , or else the middle is just a meaningless jumble . |
| 24 | or else the barrow was not searched fully , |
| 25 | In simple trusts for restitution of property , there are two options : either the trustee is in possession of the property under an obligation to make it over to the beneficiary at some point in the future ; or else the beneficiary is already in possession . |
| 26 | This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in . |
| 27 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 28 | And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so . |
| 29 | And without such plea , none of the background to the case to which we have briefly alluded can ever be placed before the jury : the only issues arising would be whether or no the publication was defamatory and , if so , what should the damages be . |
| 30 | Kewlany was put back into his tunnel and eventually the vein was cut after 70 fathoms 210 ft. further in than the original calculation and much further than the second estimate based on an 18 inch inclination in every 6 feet . |