Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 2 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 3 | or even if just the noun and pronoun changed places : |
| 4 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 5 | You will recall discussion on the addition of Clydesdale District Council as a partner in the initiative , although not as yet a member in terms of the Articles of Association of the Trust . |
| 6 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 7 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 8 | We hope that sooner or later the philosophy that classes people as mere units of labour will be consigned to the dustbin of history which it deserves . |
| 9 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Agriculture has said that sooner or later the pound will get an easier ride on the currency markets and that cereal farmers , who since Black Wednesday have almost doubled their projected income , must guard against being caught by sudden changes . |
| 11 | ‘ She assumes that sooner or later the body 'll be discovered and there 'll be a hue and cry . |
| 12 | It appears that more or less the company would do it . |
| 13 | If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines . |
| 14 | Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died . |
| 15 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 16 | He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence . |
| 17 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 18 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 19 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 20 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |
| 21 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 22 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 23 | No matter what settlement is reached , if either republic , particularly Serbia , feels that it has been unfairly treated , any ceasefire will be temporary , and sooner or later the matter will rise again . |
| 24 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 25 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 26 | Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us . |
| 27 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 28 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 29 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 30 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |