Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It seemed to he enjoying the water that somehow or other had seeped through , and I often wonder what would have happened to me if that black scorpion had indeed swung its deadly tail backwards and on to me .
32 Of the independent variables the degree of CEO involvement in the project is higher in the FRG than elsewhere and absence of status consciousness is highest in Japan .
33 It is wise to book well in advance , although Home & Pet Care will do its best to provide emergency cover at short notice , and Homesitters offers a back-up service if your sitter becomes ill .
34 While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises .
35 Democracy was further away than ever as censorship and propaganda were intensified .
36 Stressing the fact that home and school are in a state of continuous interaction , the report emphasised the importance of parental attitude .
37 Very few of those surveyed wrote positively about parental and home influence , with a high degree of concern that home and school values were out of step .
38 Although harder than gold , silver is still malleable and comparatively easy to work .
39 The focus of such assessment has already been noted as that of current , rather than past or future , level of functioning .
40 The well-remembered texture of it triggered off vivid flashes of memory , so that past and present blurred together , confusing her still further .
41 I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on .
42 This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise .
43 For example in Newcastle , Foster et al , 1976 , had shown , from an assessment of a sample of elderly people living in the community , that even though dementia sufferers received more social and health services support than other groups , nonetheless they still had greater unmet needs than other groups of dependent elderly people .
44 But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald .
45 With the present depressed economic climate , economic rather than social costs tend to be stressed and it is noticeable that even though accounting is masked in its own technical language it can have quite profound consequences in the political sphere .
46 It is , therefore , worth pointing out , before we come to the consideration of legal sovereignty specifically , that even if Parliament could pass certain laws , it is improbable , in greater or lesser degree , that it would do so .
47 In Madzimbamuto v. Lardner Burke ( P.C. , 1969 ) Lord Reid said that even if Parliament acted improperly or unwisely , it was not open to the courts to say that it had acted illegally and that the resultant legislation was invalid .
48 There is a theory that even if drug testing is flawed , it at least deters drug use .
49 It should be noted that even if Core Rule 36 modifies the duty of undivided loyalty as a matte of public law , 65 it will not provide protection where information crosses the wall.66 Further difficulties arise where a manager " overlooks " the wall in the course of discharging his managerial duties .
50 The client is then able to rely on the fact that even if s65(6)– ( 9 ) applied the benefit will not have been received in the United Kingdom because the benefit will be used to repay the interest on the loan ( and not the capital ) .
51 The move to cash planning meant that even if health service or teachers ' unions succeeded in reaching a pay settlement , there was no likelihood it would be funded in full , except by the NHS or local authorities making cuts in their non-salary budgets or employing fewer staff .
52 This work with polyl:C and 2',5'-oligoadenylate analogues demonstrates that even if interferon itself does n't live up to our expectations , research into its mechanism of action might suggest new and more effective ways to attack viral disease .
53 Given the status patterns discerned one might expect that even if technology were to achieve high status and acceptance the version which would ‘ count as education ’ would be academic and theoretical and therefore stand in contradiction to more practical objectives .
54 Its effect will be that even if property passes earlier to the buyer , the goods will remain at the seller 's risk until their arrival .
55 This tension is interestingly brought out by Miller , when he argues that even if holist and individualist stories can both be told , the latter lacks any explanatory force without the counterfactual backing characteristic of holism .
56 We have already seen that there is an argument which says that market controls deter abuse and that even when abuse does occur it might not be efficient to stamp it out .
57 A prime example of a class which is , in this sense , non-political is the peasantry in Western Europe , which Marx likened to a ‘ sack of potatoes ’ ; and it is notable that even when peasant revolutionary movements have developed in other parts of the world in the twentieth century , they have almost always been organized and led by urban politicians or urban-based political parties .
58 ( It is important to realise that even where management controls Newco within s416 the institutions investing in Newco may also control it under s416 . )
59 The important thing is that the slot be timetabled in , so that even where video provision is very limited , everyone is encouraged to think about how they can use what there is .
60 However extensive research by The Open Spaces Society has resulted in a concise reference guide that even where detail is lacking , such as the section on obtaining a grant , there are numerous references to further sources of information .
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