Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you eyeball someone and arrange to eyeball them over the C.B. you do not meet them somewhere like your house because you do n't want anyone who might be listening to turn up at your house so you meet them somewhere like the park or somewhere like that and then take them to your house if you wish . |
| 2 | Of those with current agreements , the 16 per cent or so with three or more running together have roughly twice as costly weekly or monthly payments to make as those with only one . |
| 3 | Competition within the single market should be free and fair , regulations and standards should , where necessary , be approximated to enable the single market to function efficiently and effectively in practical as well as legal terms . |
| 4 | On both occasions the violation of the maxim , in contrast to earlier instances we have examined , is deliberate , and asserts his wish , indirectly and politely at first and then by a bald on-record demand , to leave the speech situation altogether , a fact which strongly implicates his insecurity in it . |
| 5 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 6 | We 're asking our troops to do more and more with less and less . |
| 7 | But most of it was concerned with family resemblances , which were sometimes not purely physical but characterological as well , and often to dead or very distant relatives . |
| 8 | At the same time it should be remembered that in non-sociological cultural studies , as in much general writing , the question of effect is commonly raised but without much or any evidence and often by simple and even casual assertion . |
| 9 | As many rafters are also canoeists , paddling techniques vary from team to team with blade strokes varying from short and fast to long and deep with each team striving to achieve perfect stroke timing . |
| 10 | The ball is thrown to the number one and then to two and so on . |
| 11 | Lady Belladonna 's utterance is tantamount to saying her age multiplied by her age multiplied by her age is the same as multiplying her age by four and then by five and finally by 45 . |
| 12 | The magic 300 , which in the event proved a cannily accurate figure , was achieved briefly in 1912 and again in 1938 but then not until the swinging sixties , a time coincident with the Club 's finances stabilising . |
| 13 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 14 | The eroticisation of this relationship is a familiar trope , not only in art criticism but also in other and more popular forms of writing and visual culture . |
| 15 | The repeal of these measures was opposed not only by the Tories , however , but also by moderate and staunchly Anglican Whigs such as Lord Devonshire . |
| 16 | But never in these and only exceptionally in his ‘ full anthems ’ ( English motets ) does he display the expressive power of his Latin motets . |
| 17 | Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force . |