Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 " . |
| 4 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 16 | The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work . |
| 17 | At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut . |
| 18 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
| 19 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 20 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 21 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 22 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 23 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 24 | A tip , incidentally , that reminds us that the whodunit is by no means only a puzzle for the reader to solve before the author lets out the answer , but also and always a story . |
| 25 | Evidently there was a market not far away , for there were plenty of housewives with shopping bags bulging with fresh vegetables and fruit , while here and there a businessman hurried through the crowd clutching his briefcase or sat scanning a newspaper over his coffee or cognac . |
| 26 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 27 | In the demonstration New Scientist played with , which involved data about a doughnut factory , there were confusing references to SPVSRS ( supervisors ) as well as quite a lot of mathematical symbols . |
| 28 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 29 | English , like England , is presented within this discourse as essentially and incontrovertibly a matter of culture without politics , the self-evident and natural servant of a spiritual fellowship embodying all that is true , good , and free . |