Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines . |
| 2 | Dr Mohammed said this might happen no more than once or twice every year depending how often people died . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Evidently there was a market not far away , for there were plenty of housewives with shopping bags bulging with fresh vegetables and fruit , while here and there a businessman hurried through the crowd clutching his briefcase or sat scanning a newspaper over his coffee or cognac . |
| 7 | In July 1888 , the Executive Committee resolved that branches should be opened at North Shields , South Shields , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough and Blyth " as soon as ever the Secretary thinks it advisable to do so " . |
| 8 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 9 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 10 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 11 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 12 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |
| 13 | In the demonstration New Scientist played with , which involved data about a doughnut factory , there were confusing references to SPVSRS ( supervisors ) as well as quite a lot of mathematical symbols . |
| 14 | If you are working outside as well as inside the home , try to use some of your earnings to ease household jobs — for example , substitute duvets for sheets and blankets to save laundry and bed-making , or buy a food processor to do in seconds what takes hours by hand . |
| 15 | There you could meet the likes of Orson Welles , Norman Mailer , Lillian Hellman , Virgil Thomson , Martha Graham , Ethel Merman , and Anita Loos — as well as almost every star in American showbusiness . |
| 16 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 17 | English , like England , is presented within this discourse as essentially and incontrovertibly a matter of culture without politics , the self-evident and natural servant of a spiritual fellowship embodying all that is true , good , and free . |