Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after er sort of I 'd more or less half a second and I thought oh he 's come back again |
| 2 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You do not have to exchange rings as it is not a legal requirement , although once again the bride and groom will have to sign the register . |
| 6 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Each evening the quayside would be crowded with holidaymakers who made a point of going to watch the long procession of over 100 boats , their lights twinkling as dusk began to fall , pass slowly and majestically down the harbour and out to sea . |
| 10 | In a consumer society , where wealth is synonymous with money and thus both the currency and final desideratum in a process of endless consumption , people are in danger of knowing the " price of everything and the value of nothing " . |
| 11 | Universities such as Lancaster are going steadily and rapidly up the poll and are doing very well indeed . |
| 12 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 13 | Over the years it has received King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ( the present Queen Mother ) after the Coronation in 1937 ; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 after her own Coronation , and more recently the Prince and Princess of Wales on their first tour in 1981 . |
| 14 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1984 , p. 425 ) point to intraorganizational tensions created by the FMI : for example , between service departments on the one hand and the Treasury ( and formerly also the Management and Personnel Office ) on the other , with the latter fearing loss of control over departmental expenditure and manpower . |
| 15 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 16 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 17 | I aim to tell the truth , present a product fairly , and please both the advertiser and the prospective purchaser . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 23 | They look slightly out of place , and quite why the turn and slip should be separately switched I am not sure . |
| 24 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 25 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 26 | But more significantly the development and widespread availability of pre-designed packages , such as OCP ( the Oxford Concordance Package ) for concordance construction , and SPSS ( Statistical Package for Social Sciences ) for statistical analysis , meant that it was possible for the humanist to become more independent of the computing experts , and to operate with at most low-level assistance . |
| 27 | If the historical trajectory of the Scrapbook is followed ( SI through Fluxus , Heatwave , King Mob , Jamie Reid , Vivienne Westwood , and the Sex Pistols ) the Situationist role for the intellectual as an informed but passionate critic gives way to philistine incitements to violence ( typified by King Mob in Britain , the Motherfuckers in the USA , and also indirectly the punk phenomenon ) but more commonly a laidback and philosophically weak critique of everyday life . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ You remember , ’ he said , ‘ how we predicted , on our very first night together , that it might turn into one book , or a trio , or a quintet — but certainly not a duet or a quartet ? ’ |