Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights . |
| 2 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 3 | Doubtful tuning here and there is also a reservation to be found in Nilsson 's Four Last Songs , recorded in 1970 when the Swedish soprano was more or less in pristine form . |
| 4 | In my films the conductor is more or less in one position throughout . |
| 5 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 6 | A very small proportion of sufferers thought that it was due to previous surgery ( 28 , 7% ) or to muscle weakness , anxiety , infection , overweight ( 14 ( 3% ) or less in each case ) . |
| 7 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 8 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 9 | Only people who earn £12 or less in any week will escape having their entitlement affected at all . |
| 10 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 11 | The R S P C A more or less in this borough is erm . |
| 12 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 13 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 14 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , Leonora , but you look about twelve or so in this light . ’ |
| 16 | There are usually very many muscles — up to 2000 or so in some Lepidopteran larvae — and the system is bilaterally symmetrical . |
| 17 | The advantages of hydro-electric power are its high conversion efficiency — more than 80% as compared with efficiency rates of 30% or so in thermal power stations . |
| 18 | But the important thing is that there is nothing at Felbrigg or Nostell — or elsewhere in National Trust houses — which closely resembles the saloon ( or the drawing room ) at Uppark : these rooms were unique and we need them back . |
| 19 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 20 | Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory . |
| 21 | The largest winter flocks are in Chichester Harbour , where the winter peak was of 3,000 birds or more in each winter until 1974/75 , and the highest count was of 4,900 birds on 10 March 1968 . |
| 22 | The basic tax would assume there were two or more in each household . |
| 23 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 24 | This applies where two companies have used identical or similar marks for at least five years or more in all honesty and have built up goodwill in ignorance of the use of the mark by the other company . |
| 25 | One local authority admitted that it was placing severely disabled children , including those under the age of 5 , 100 miles away or more in residential care . |
| 26 | It is usual for the file to be arranged in ascending key sequence , and for the file creation software to expect input to the file to be physically in this order ( on initial creation ) or logically in this order ( when a file with overflow records is reorganized ) . |
| 27 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 28 | The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives . |
| 29 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 30 | That principle must also be applied here , since to require a company incorporated under the law of one member state , which has its registered office , central administration or principal place of business in that member state ( within the meaning of article 58 ) , or even in another member state , to transfer its principal place of business to the member state where a certain activity , such as fishing , is to be carried on , deprives that company of the possibility of exercising its right of establishment through the setting up of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , as is expressly provided for in the second sentence of the first paragraph of article 52 . |