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

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1 Today Brighton & Hove is very much a resort where past and present meet , merge and coexist perfectly .
2 By virtue of Article iv Rule 5(E) of the Hague-Visby Rules : ‘ Neither the carrier nor the ship shall be entitled to the benefit of the limitation of liability provided for in this paragraph if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of the carrier done with intent to cause damage or recklessly and with knowledge that damage would probably result . ’
3 Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’
4 Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper .
5 It was a wonderful hour or more and later Ian Woosnam called for a knighthood for Jacklin .
6 He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear .
7 We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know .
8 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
9 He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before .
10 Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers .
11 Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime .
12 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 .
13 Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ?
14 And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time .
15 ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’
16 But yo you come for an hour or so and then , tha that 'll be enough
17 But , you know she just puts it on , she does n't want to do any thing for a hour or so and just sit and recover .
18 He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring .
19 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 .
20 There are no black or Asian officers in the ranks of chief superintendent or above and only one superintendent , recently appointed in Leicestershire .
21 She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions .
22 Note that on a Friday or a Saturday , these will coincide ; and given the rule that today and tomorrow pre-empt calendrical day names , on Wednesday and Thursday , next Thursday can only mean the Thursday of next week .
23 The waterlogged heaps of wet muck soon became unstable and eventually began to slide downwards , quite suddenly becoming semi-liquid slurries or mudflows , which swept down the sides of the volcano , gathering speed and more and more material the whole time .
24 of having a vote and so and so gets no
25 Question directly relating to that point though is it not true that the Eastern Arts withdrawal of the ten thousand pound grant last year was directly related to criticisms made in both in the nineteen eighty six appraisal and subsequently and repeated both to The Star recently what with was that the marketing of the playhouse was drastically inadequate .
26 The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence .
27 The expression can only produce a constant term if both and have equal frequencies and , since has only a fundamental component , it is the corresponding component of which is required .
28 Speaking to the Darlington Branch of the Dyslexia Institute Mr Fallon , the town 's MP , said : ‘ Dyslexia is now a widely recognised term and more and more information is available to help those who are dyslexic . ’
29 There is a good co-operation between the British police and police forces on the continent because more and more crime — particularly drugs crime — crosses frontiers .
30 More recently the breed has been infused with North American blood as well and is now quite large , the bulls standing on average about 160cm and weighing 1.100kg , the cows 140cm and 700kg .
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