Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 2 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |
| 3 | The change of heart could cost a small number of veterans or widows more than £40 per week and save Middlesbrough Council £110,000 . |
| 4 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 5 | Children usually exhibit symptoms or signals long before they run away : they may lie , steal , truant , experiment with drugs or alcohol , create conflict , throw tantrums , be angry or depressed ; finally they run away . |
| 6 | Tasks and mail may then be sent to users with a specific role or roles rather than to an explicitly stated LIFESPAN username . |
| 7 | Men tend to use bank credit cards , bank loans or overdrafts more than women do . |
| 8 | On the other hand , until 1870 , and even thereafter , there were still German industrialists who refused to allow their nephews to become reserve-officers , as being unsuitable for young men of their class , or whose sons insisted on doing their military service in the infantry or engineers rather than the socially more exclusive cavalry . |
| 9 | The realisation that all things in the creative universe are manifestations of one all-pervasive , eternal conscious principle , and that there are no holes or gaps anywhere where consciousness is absent , made this exalted state of mind possible . |
| 10 | Oriental examples have heads of lions or eagles rather than griffins ; and while the sirens on Greek pieces are purely eastern in style , the griffins , often of superb quality , have a distinctive character of their own : Greek . |
| 11 | It is refreshingly easy to overcome initial fears , however , if you are prepared to enter into the debate , and not allow yourself to take comments or criticisms personally when a student peers at you agog for carrying out what they see as an archaic approach . |
| 12 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 13 | It is probable that the owl was after beetles or insects rather than live rabbits . |
| 14 | But the atoms or elementary particles are not as real ; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts . |
| 15 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 16 | Further alterations may be made by airports or airlines later than this . |
| 17 | On paper all have done so , although in reality most statements of departmental objectives have tended to be rather vague and generalized , describing functions or responsibilities rather than underlying goals or objectives ( Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 ; Gray and Jenkins , 1985 , pp. 84–7 ) . |
| 18 | Such excess were no doubt the responsibility of her courtiers or producers rather than of the Queen herself , but they became associated with her . |
| 19 | Some changes in practice , and in ways of delivering services , did take place , but usually as the result of initiatives by individual social workers or managers rather than as part of an overall department plan . |
| 20 | Working with equipment or figures rather than people |
| 21 | New ways of delivering legal advice and assistance are being explored by the Legal Aid Board including schemes which will franchise certain work to specific firms or agencies rather than making such advice available from any solicitor ( Smith , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Michael Polanyi draws attention to the way in which people can unconsciously share certain basic assumptions or beliefs even if , at a conscious level , they express something else . |
| 23 | Groups bonded through interests or situations rather than the fact that members happen to be over 60 may be far more suitable . |
| 24 | er to raise two matters or comments rather than matters erm seating er , new cushions have now been purchased and were used with great success at the October production and Alan has asked whether there are any comments we can draw about the success or otherwise of the October production and whether the experiment is worth continuing . ? |
| 25 | In the cathedrals , Perpendicular work is mainly limited to replacing towers , vaults or windows rather than large scale alterations . |
| 26 | begin at about 5–8 years old as ‘ trappers ’ , & girls earlier than boys , as they were thought to mature earlier . |
| 27 | It followed that her associates and most admired colleagues were invariably businessmen or entrepreneurs rather than intellectuals , writers , or artists , doers rather than talkers or thinkers . |
| 28 | However , he sought to establish University Extra-Mural Groups or Societies rather than use the County Federation of WEA branches in the promotion of extension classes through gaining support of Women 's Institutes and other voluntary organisations . |
| 29 | The other conditions of an effect , by which I again mean particulars or tokens rather than types — it would again be more accurate to speak of individual properties and relations — are also required or alternatively required for the effects . |
| 30 | Inhabited vehicles or vessels are included e.g. houseboats or caravans even if the inhabitant is not there ( section 9(3) Theft Act 1968 ) . |