Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [coord] the " in BNC.

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1 Rates of pay for what is a stressful job were extremely low , starting at £1.20 an hour : three-quarters of the unqualified workforce received £2.00 an hour or less and the highest rates of pay were well below £3.00 an hour .
2 And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round .
3 The length of the bar in that paint pot will change up or down and the figure above the paint pot will also change .
4 The wild fish grows to 20cm or so but the aquarium-kept specimen is unlikely to reach 15cm .
5 I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself .
6 If it 's something you want the police there to deal with quite quickly and if , if they waited an hour or so and the police did n't come then could n't deal with it .
7 To my disbelief I felt a resistance for a second or so and the rod sprung back over my shoulder .
8 To maintain the same characteristic impedance as the prototype , the series impedance Z 1 of the m-derived section is chosen so as to satisfy or Thus and the series arm of the m-derived section must be formed from the series impedance Z 1 of the prototype multiplied by m in parallel with extra impedance as illustrated in figure 9.9(c) .
9 You 'll also need DOS 2 or above and the program is compatible with Microsoft and Logitech mice .
10 25 years of age or over but the holder of :
11 ( Please note that benefits are halved for policyholders aged 60 or over and the benefit for injury preventing you from working again would cease to be applicable .
12 are aged 40 or over and the brother/sister/parent/child of a diagnosed glaucoma patient .
13 By knowing whether a company is at risk or not and the degree of risk , the credit manager is in a better position to use his professional judgement and experience creatively to manage the risk , not just avoid it .
14 The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years .
15 The family who has to care for children whether they 've got disabilities or not and the whole intention of this Act is that children are best cared for by parents and any alternative is second best .
16 Yes , something to do with whether science is fact or not and the need for discussion .
17 Because I do n't think the question of what 's going on outside Moat Centre today or yesterday or the day after , has a lot to do with the actual alternatives that we 've been .
18 Some of the larger models made appreciable noise in winds of Force 4 or more and the fans , of course , are almost lethal at these speeds .
19 Each cooking function can be used singularly or simultaneously and the controls are said to be simple to operate .
20 In addition , various situational factors influence pronunciation , such as the social relationship between speaker and hearer , whether one is speaking publicly or privately and the purposes for which one is using language .
21 I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary .
22 Here the wheel is mounted horizontally rather than vertically and the spokes are bent up at the ends to form a cup shape .
23 In the twenty-two years since Ian Paisley had campaigned for Kilfedder in West Belfast , the world had been turned upside down more than once and the three men had crossed and re-crossed each other , like figures in a bizarre dance .
24 The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge .
25 And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had .
26 Today she looked like being later than ever and the excuse was beginning to look a bit thin .
27 Europe have the home advantage a better team than ever and the Americans have five new players with no Ryder Cup experience …
28 Unemployment was higher in Torbay than nationally and the DHA had provided few opportunities for work , most of its effort going into the operation of a light industrial unit at Newton Abbot .
29 Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened .
30 The practice started when postmortems were more common than now and the intention was to protect the ‘ outsider ’ from the smell .
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