Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a moral in there somewhere but Preston was n't sure if he 'd cracked it yet . |
| 2 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 3 | IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night . |
| 4 | So far as balance is concerned , would a teacher in a school with Afro-Caribbean children on the register have to present a case for as well as against apartheid when covering South Africa ? |
| 5 | McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon . |
| 6 | That way we can put the donkey in a field at about 11am and leave him for about six hours while people have other entertainment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My initial inquiries suggest that a figure of significantly less than 10 per cent is a real possibility , ’ Mr Pulman said . |
| 8 | The period since 1945 , a stretch of rather more than 40 years , may be considered as a whole . |
| 9 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 10 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 11 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 12 | It 's the only dignified way of telling them that you 're not going to be made a fool of any longer and you 're not going to be dragged down to their level . ’ |
| 13 | A footnote in the report of the select committee records that there were 2,927 mandatory life sentence cases in a period of slightly more than 23 years , an average of 127 a year . |
| 14 | After fighting a war at least partly because of the Gulf 's oil , he certainly should be . |
| 15 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 16 | Dennis Tighe , prosecuting said police spotted Millman driving a BMW at about 11.30pm and tried to stop him . |
| 17 | Can you not stick a band on pretty soon or nothing like that ? |
| 18 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 19 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the story in the Gospels is often utterly divorced from all historical context — a narrative of stark , timeless , mythic simplicity enacted in a sort of limbo , a never-never-land of long ago and far away . |
| 21 | Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away . |
| 22 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 23 | There is some authority to suggest that a doctor is under a duty to prevent the suicide of such a patient in so far as there is a duty to control the patient . |
| 24 | we 're going to do this anyway is a way through indirectly rather than confrontational which might be a male aggressive sort of behaviour . |
| 25 | Sadly , many an organist falls prey to the ponderous and unrhythmic playing which is invited by the instrument 's ability to sustain a note for as long as the key is depressed , with results which may be sentimental or lugubrious . |
| 26 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 27 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 28 | Chris avoided tedium very successfully ; he resisted having an agenda for as long as possible and always refused point-blank to have a vote on anything , so meetings never got hung up on procedure , nor were they subjected to much prior lobbying . |
| 29 | That means a £250,00 consortium survival loan offer is likely to collapse and Barnet have been ordered to give the League an assurance by 11am today that they can fulfil their fixtures next season . |