Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 2 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 3 | or even if just the noun and pronoun changed places : |
| 4 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 5 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 6 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 7 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |
| 8 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 9 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 10 | No matter what settlement is reached , if either republic , particularly Serbia , feels that it has been unfairly treated , any ceasefire will be temporary , and sooner or later the matter will rise again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us . |
| 13 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 14 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 15 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 16 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 17 | The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work . |
| 18 | At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut . |
| 19 | The " alert " is sounded and a plane flies overhead every five minutes or so — the usual monotonous droning sound of the engines is heard and now and then the pop-pop of the guns and occasionally you feel the sensation of a slight earthquake when a bomb drops — |
| 20 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
| 21 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 22 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 23 | But today the real sea looked wonderful , silken , with a gentle running glitter where the tide moved , and here and there the tilt and flash of white wings in the sunlight as the gulls sailed out from the cliffs . |
| 24 | There were cigarette burns on the carpet , and here and there the brown of the walls had been rubbed away to reveal a pinkish surface beneath . |
| 25 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 26 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 27 | But sooner or later the firm 's demand for investment capital would become so large that this demand could not be met at a fixed cost of capital and r would begin to rise . |
| 28 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 29 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 30 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |