Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 2 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even I was pelted with a couple of little pointed things from the TV Times and was heard to admit that ‘ awards are like haemorrhoids — sooner or later every bum gets one ’ . |
| 5 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 6 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 7 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 8 | Sooner or later an approach shot to one of the closely guarded greens will nestle near the hole and suddenly all is right with the world . |
| 9 | The work was completed , the Tyndalls eventually passed away and now the University has a music Department housed in pure poetry . |
| 10 | This beach road is closed to traffic after 6pm and here the nightlife begins — be it a leisurely walk in the balmy evening air , a chat and drink with the locals in a taverna or a fresh fish dish in a typically lively Green restaurant . |
| 11 | Unemployment of registered disabled is always at a much higher rate than unemployment generally and so the recession has severely damaged the chances of large numbers of disabled people obtaining work . |
| 12 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 13 | Slowly and painfully the story came out . |
| 14 | Then the trousered rear legs begin to edge step by step to the left , and very slowly and deliberately the animal turns its head . |
| 15 | Further or alternatively an order varying or discharging the August 1991 order so as to permit production by the [ defendants ] of the documents covered by the section 39 notice . |
| 16 | As protection , the floating charge holder is given the same priority with respect to any property representing directly or indirectly the property disposed of as he would have had with respect to the property subject to the floating charge . |
| 17 | Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died . |
| 18 | Retest foods once or twice a year to see if they are still a problem . |
| 19 | The Congress , which partly superseded the former USSR Supreme Soviet , is elected for a five-year term and convenes once or twice a year to decide on major constitutional , political and socio-economic questions . |
| 20 | Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ . |
| 21 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 22 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
| 23 | However , to maintain this amended behaviour pattern , it may be necessary to repeat this training once or twice a week to ensure that it is permanently reinforced . |
| 24 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 25 | The group will meet once or twice a month to discuss business coming before the council and to decide on a collective attitude . |
| 26 | In a sense they , they were back now in , in the situation that they , they needed support from the peasantry quickly and surely the way to do that was to offer them land , to give them land reform because rent reduction interest ra interest rate reduction is not enough . |
| 27 | Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves . |
| 28 | More and more the struggle to express it intensified . |
| 29 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 30 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |