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

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1 Even for roles such as lector , the layman or even the boy is preferred .
2 Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office .
3 After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation .
4 Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure .
5 Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself !
6 In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue .
7 Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’
8 By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past .
9 They will also depend upon the generic strategies being adopted for the SBU or even the product line .
10 However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable .
11 After an hour or more the dancing stops .
12 After an hour or so the pungency diminishes .
13 That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon .
14 These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists .
15 The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors .
16 If during this period breath hydrogen increased by 100% or more the test was considered abnormal .
17 In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended .
18 In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question .
19 However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again .
20 If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 .
21 If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 .
22 It can be applied to any arena in which people need to work together — an office , factory , club or even the Government .
23 This is called the average or mean bond enthalpy , the bond enthalpy term or simply the bond energy .
24 It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home .
25 When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm .
26 either the living room or the study or maybe the kitchen .
27 Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession .
28 Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) .
29 Often only broken fragments of these inlays survive , and nothing of the item of furniture to which they were attached , so it is difficult to visualize the original effect or even the extent of the shell decoration .
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