Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) A licence granted otherwise than at a properly constituted meeting of a licensing board or otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be void . |
| 3 | Here desires to construct a version of the play that best reflects Christopher Marlowe is decidedly the result of continuities and exclusions recognised ( and desired ) by editors anxious to contain the play , to create a singular text where more than one exists . |
| 4 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 5 | They then turned to the govt. & only when the govt. took action did situations improve at all . |
| 6 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 7 | 1 Common parts The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant ( in common with the Landlord and all other persons having a like right ) to use the Common Parts for all proper purposes in connection with the use and enjoyment of the Premises provided that the Landlord shall not be obliged to keep the malls and other pedestrian ways open [ to the general public ] earlier than [ one hour ] before the Shop Opening Hours or later than [ one hour ] after the Shop Opening Hours It will be for the landlord and the tenant to negotiate shop opening hours at the commencement of the term and which from the tenant 's point of view should be sufficient for the tenant to carry on its normal trade and business . |
| 8 | All necessary costs for the AA to arrange recovery of your vehicle to your home or appointed repairer , if you can not use the vehicle for eight hours or more because of illness and the one and only qualified competent driver , or following accident , breakdown , fire or theft of the vehicle . |
| 9 | But because agriculture has n't been in G A T T or up until recently has n't been in G A T T agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right . |
| 10 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 11 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 12 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 13 | It increases the pressure on volunteers and on the phone lines dramatically , because whereas any other sort of information call may take a minute or two , an AIDS call can take half an hour or more because the information may lead into a discussion of the caller 's lifestyle , moral attitudes and emotional needs . |
| 14 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 15 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 16 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 17 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 18 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 19 | He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired . |
| 20 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 21 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 22 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 23 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 24 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |
| 25 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 26 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
| 27 | And the other one takes seventy minutes or longer if they wish to examine things . |
| 28 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 29 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 30 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |