Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.

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1 Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none .
2 After a few weeks ( or maybe only a week or two , if you began with well-developed caterpillars ) the caterpillars will be fully grown and ready to become chrysalids .
3 Not to be confused with the swept-wing Delta stunters , the 2-line Diamonds , known generically as Peter Powell types , although not always the size or the quality of Peter 's long serving originals , are popular first kites .
4 This is something that not even a Washoe or Lucy , far less a baby calf , begins to approach .
5 If a newly married couple are moving into their first home , for example , you could create a design incorporating both their names , the date of their move and perhaps even the name or location of their house .
6 To approach them tell them how they feel about things rather than having to ring you up and make an appointment if only once a year or once every six months use a group .
7 Mindful of the totality of the picture and not just the technology or work-flow elements , one might prefer to call it postmodernist , in order to index the contrast with Weber 's modernist representation .
8 Keeping your weight over to that side , raise your back leg 2 ins ( 5cm ) off the floor and move it forwards and back just an inch or two .
9 Keeping your weight over to that side , raise the back leg 2ins ( 5cm ) and move it forwards and back just an inch or two .
10 If you are lucky enough to have full length cupboards in the hallway , they can easily be reorganized to take china , cutlery , glass and linen and maybe even a trolley or serving cart .
11 In Ireland , Diarmaid , King of Dublin , made two attacks on Meath along with the King of Ossory , and , noticing that there were few Orkney ships these days in the water and no Orkney attempts at interference , decided it was time to look for some easy weapons and cattle and money , and maybe even a harbour or two .
12 It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored .
13 In this way , the economic facts have preserved older mythology : the black woman is both a sexual object and a trustworthy employee ( no longer a domestic servant , but now perhaps a typist or tea-lady ) .
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