Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 2 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |
| 3 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 4 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
| 5 | In general , under the classical law , a person may choose whether or not to enter a contract and may select the terms which constitute the substantive obligations of the transaction . |
| 6 | By contrast , the time limit for actions in private law is at least three years , and for judicial review applications made outside Ord. 53 there is no fixed time limit : delay in applying is just a factor to be taken into account when the court exercises its discretion whether or not to award a declaration or injunction . |
| 7 | The court must then go on to apply the fundamental principles in s1 of the Act before deciding whether or not to make a care or supervision order . |
| 8 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 9 | He was pretty non commital about taking the England job saying that England were ‘ still in the WC & still had a manager and a good one at that ’ . |
| 10 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 11 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
| 12 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 13 | You and your companion can learn french , practise yoga — or simply have a coffee and a chat . |
| 14 | It was about unravelling the merger mistakes of the 1960s : splitting up conglomerates , or else buying a firm and selling off divisions that were remote from its main business . |
| 15 | He dithered , wondering whether to go to the restaurant for a cup of coffee while hoping Hunter-Blair would return or else to find a telephone and call his office . |
| 16 | Taxes Act 1988 , ss671 and 672 apply where any person has power to revoke or otherwise determine a settlement or any provision thereof , and the settlor or his spouse may become beneficially entitled to all or any part of the settled property or income thereof as the result of such revocation or determination . |
| 17 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 18 | Hargreaves continued the Sheffield pattern by mounting exhibitions by young artists in Imperial 's Consort Gallery , quality shows that soon attracted a following and that for years formed a regular feature of the London art scene . |
| 19 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 20 | With me that rings a warning bell , since it 's one of those suspicious New Age buzzwords that always portend a scam or screwball notion such as crystal therapy or out-of-body travel . |
| 21 | He thought with pleasure of his sister 's elegant face with the skin that always had a gleam and yet was softly , darkly creamy at the same time . |
| 22 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
| 23 | As always when she sang this song her eyes were moist , and when she had finished the applause did not come immediately , but there was that magic moment of silence that sometimes links a performer and an audience . |
| 24 | ( PIRATES is a unit on coordinates that never plots a point or shows a grid or axes . |
| 25 | Looking for excitement and with little thought for his family , he steals a friend 's car , knocks down and badly injures a girl and is taken to court . |
| 26 | The words of someone else 's arguments are very unlikely just to fit straight into and so create a structure and argument for your own essay . |
| 27 | She was so glad that Len was back by her side , and yet she dared not tell him why , because he would only be angry and perhaps start a fight and worry afterwards anyway . |
| 28 | The 1975 definition was an exceptionally pure version that had not been current previously and only lasted a year or two . |
| 29 | What would be more difficult would be for each group to resist both poles of power ( management and union ) and not become a caucus or adjunct of either . |
| 30 | I 've had sex with girls and not worn a condom and I wo n't do it again . |