Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Before its commencement we did not know how the ENP would be received in the department or indeed whether the proposed scheme would turn out to be a workable one . |
| 23 | Obviously this is a coarse instrument and at best can only reveal major features and is quite hopeless when there is a terrace or more than one terrace between each pair of contours . |
| 24 | There is a further clause in the 1950 law that permitted Manor to confirm that a man or woman was not an absentee if that person left his place of residence ‘ for fear that the enemies of Israel might cause him harm or otherwise than by reason or for fear of military operations , . |
| 25 | When it passes out of his hands , Gollum is so eaten up with desire for the Ring that even though he has become evil he helps Frodo find Mount Doom in order to stay with the Ring . |
| 26 | But it 's important to bear in mind that even if children have left home , they may want to return to stay later on , maybe with partners and grandchildren in tow . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind that even if an employer 's action amounts to constructive dismissal , this does not always mean that the dismissal will automatically be unfair . |
| 28 | Bear in mind that even though the wire will not present an electrical hazard , it should still be buried : trailing cables are dangerous by day and even more so in the dark . |
| 29 | This reflected the Soviet fear that even as CENTO collapsed the United States was preparing the construction of new alliance structures in the Third World and working for an extension of the geographic responsibilities of NATO . |
| 30 | A particular problem which frequently arises is a claim by an employee that even if he must have realised , in accordance with the principle laid down in the Printers and Finishers case , that he was under a duty to maintain a confidence , such duty was in fact overridden by the way in which his employer acted towards the information ie that the employer is estopped from now relying on confidence . |