Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW book , Organised Obsessions : 1001 Offbeat Associations , Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join , lists hundreds of groups where even folks with the most unusual interests can find kindred spirits . |
| 2 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 3 | Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle . |
| 4 | Although the army , still sceptical of the new weapon and uncooperative , were unable to provide him with either maps or even straw for the pilots ' bunks , within a week he had installed on the Verdun front six out of France 's total of fifteen fighter squadrons , and a further eight reconnaissance squadrons ; equalling 120 machines . |
| 5 | A virtual mummy , a living corpse that could not twitch a fingertip — though did any fingers or even fingerbones remain within that mass of medical machinery ? |
| 6 | The answer can not be given by considering whether in the context of utterance it is likely to produce attitudes of some distinctively ethical sort , rather than some non-ethical attitudes or perhaps beliefs . |
| 7 | Through their brokers ' offices , the shareholders , as leading cultural establishments , will be able to offer tours , pictures , rights to hold exhibitions , scripts or even ideas . |
| 8 | This is not a matter of party politics or personalities or policies or even principles . |
| 9 | Although it is true that some fathers are involved with their children for seconds in a day rather than hours or even minutes , their presence can encourage confidence to make those expeditions and explorations which are vital to the process of child development . |
| 10 | It may occur several times within an organism 's lifetime , sometimes within a span of hours or even minutes . |
| 11 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 12 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 13 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 14 | The vast majority of chromosomally unbalanced mouse fetuses die between day 6 and IS ( 8 ) and mitotic activity often decreases several hours or even days prior to the event . |
| 15 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 16 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 17 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 18 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
| 19 | Photocopies or even originals of the News of the World , if they remain from last Sunday , are no substitute for evidence being placed before the Home Secretary so that appropriate action could be taken . |
| 20 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 21 | He adds extra off-beat notes not demanded by words or vocal line , often splitting up syllables or even consonants , slurring words together , disguising the verbal sense ( see Ex. 1.3 ) . |
| 22 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 23 | ‘ We ’ are French , or Swedes , or Germans or even members of politically defined sub-units like Lombards , but distinguished from the invading ‘ them ’ by being the ‘ real ’ Frenchmen or Germans or Brits , as defined ( usually ) by putative descent or long residence . |
| 24 | Most farmers have their own strongly held views or even prejudices , and I am no exception . |
| 25 | The priests had a mulberry tree , which last year had come near to ruining the woman 's trade , spattering the linen of the town with a roan signature , as the pulpy fruit fell from its higher branches , or was dropped by feasting birds or even wasps ; in fact , she did not know how so much staining happened , but it was the devil to scrub it out , and she risked wearing out the cloth itself with ammonia or other solvents . |
| 26 | Maybe it was minutes or just seconds , I can not be sure , before Paul began to speak . |
| 27 | Minerals giving very low intensity emission , such as quartz grains , required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films . |
| 28 | Show them how to be concise when they may have only minutes or even seconds to put over their viewpoint . |
| 29 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 30 | Quality guidelines or just guidelines . |