Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 2 | Similarly , in taking a feminist perspective in her youth work , Jenny Ball was aware that considerable care needed to be exercised so that neither the work nor her position became vulnerable . |
| 3 | By 11 , the majority of children were hit less than once a month or never . |
| 4 | The second main reason why handling grief is different these days is that death has become less and less an event that takes place within the confines of the family circle . |
| 5 | A marked MIP-1 β- specific augmentation of binding was observed only when both the proteoglycan and the integrin ligand were co-immobilized . |
| 6 | Harnesses are another popular option with owners of dachshunds , spreading the point of control more widely over the body , rather than just the neck or head . |
| 7 | I 'll have to phone Nick tonight to see if the Captain has a phone number now rather than just an address cos if I can phone him it 'll be a lot easier . |
| 8 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 9 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 12 | I 'm aware of the accounts they 've handled successfully and also the fact that , owing to the recent recession and not to any fault of their own , they 've been seriously affected by the cut-back in promotion budgets of several of their larger clients . ’ |
| 13 | Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors . |
| 14 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 15 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 16 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 17 | it was just more or less They they certainly would n't have food or anything like that I think it was just more or less the supplier or That would be |
| 18 | He was more or less an alcoholic before he was 20 . |
| 19 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 20 | The cream need only be lightly massaged with the finger tips either once or twice a day and the manufacturers stress that you do not have to knead or use a special applicator . |
| 21 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 22 | It 's quite well it 's fun because I you know the people and you see them once or twice a year and it 's it 's nice to see them back and talk |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ideally , to be honest I would like a diamorphine maintenance course , but I do n't know if that 's possible these days to pick up a prescription once or twice a week and be able to do it that way instead of having the hassle of having to go on the street . |
| 25 | They may happen once or twice a week or several times in an hour . |
| 26 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 27 | International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world . |
| 28 | Nearly a half of all 3-year-old boys were bedwetting more than twice a week while 30 per cent of girls were . |
| 29 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 30 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |