Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 2 | I 've always treated everything I 've seen or heard as absolutely confidential . |
| 3 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 4 | Thirdly , health is considered central to the process of community organization and empowerment , and can not be ignored or postponed until more general political and social changes have taken place . |
| 5 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 6 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 7 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) No share may be issued unless it is fully paid or credited as fully paid on or before allotment . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) No share may be issued unless it is fully paid or credited as fully paid on or before allotment . |
| 10 | Section 15 extended the law to include situations where he obtained possession or control as well as ownership . |
| 11 | The life-eater virus , spreading at amazing speed , would attack anything whatever that breathed or grew or crawled or flew as well as anything of biological origin : food , clothes , wood , feathers , bone . |
| 12 | Lawyers for the 35 hunger strikers in Pietermaritsburg , 30 of whom were hospitalised , were assured by the Minister that they would all be released or charged as soon as they left hospital . |
| 13 | Test Mode A switch to specify whether the package structure is to be checked only ( True ) or updated as well ( False ) . |
| 14 | As a design element , hedges can lead or intervene as well as define , diverting attention from an obvious path or keeping secret areas from immediate view . |
| 15 | Brown-bag a healthy lunch to school or work as well , rather than relying on fast foods . |
| 16 | Casually stop and look in a shop window and see whether your suspect keeps walking or stops as well . |
| 17 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |
| 18 | It trains , in a way no other discipline can , intelligence and sensibility together , cultivating a sensitiveness and precision of response and a delicate integrity of intelligence — intelligence that integrates as well as analyses and must have pertinacity and staying power as well as delicacy . |
| 19 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 20 | They concluded that yeast provided just as reliable an experimental model as wheat , with the advantage of quicker growth and therefore faster results . |
| 21 | Firstly , read Practical Running this month which is jam-packed with advice that starts as soon as you cross the line . |
| 22 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 23 | When I started out , you could n't have bought a real Fender that played as well as this . |
| 24 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |
| 25 | Perhaps Ronnie Koeman was watching and can learn that trick as well . |
| 26 | There is an increasing discrimination on my view because of the racism that exists as well as the sexism that exists within our society , and when you say why do n't women do more , the odds against women , particularly black or working class women , are very heavy . |
| 27 | But when Flavia turned into the Fourniers ' drive she saw that she had been spared that errand as well , for there , shining , immobile , unconcerned , stood the long car . |
| 28 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 29 | He raised his hands in the boxer 's victory salute to acknowledge the roar of applause from the cheerleaders that began as soon as the eulogy to announce him had ended . |
| 30 | ‘ I think of all the boys that came after , all the ones that went before too and were subjected to Gilly 's approach to education . ’ |