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

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1	Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye .
2	Thirty minutes is usually sufficient for an interview , but allow an hour or even more if the appointment is a high-powered one and the interview will be very searching .
3	To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal .
4	‘ So I 'm blindfolded again , taken to this bus stop an hour or so away and when that bus comes I 'm right on it and no mistake .
5	The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green .
6	They can be formed on land near the sea , in shallow lakes or indeed anywhere where it is possible for a large volume of water to find its way into the volcanic vent .
7	If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year .
8	In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact .
9	These changes should allow the bureau to release the first summary reports in late spring next year , some six months or so earlier than in 1980 .
10	This area is open to the public outside the firing template or even inside when firing is not in progress .
11	Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes .
12	I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth .
13	In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic .
14	The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility .
15	Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution .
16	You know , have you got a bit which could be put in such a form that it would actually make sense and appeal to this particular viewership , audienceship and so on and so forth .
17	And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over .
18	She met his eyes and as calmly as she could told him she and her father had loved visiting castles and mansions on their holidays .
19	Erm so it had to have all the lighting , official lighting for the continent and so on and so forth .
20	Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away .
21	Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it .
22	Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions .
23	So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple .
24	and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off .
25	So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question .
26	It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location .
27	The field of art and design education represents a very broad spectrum of study and as far as it is possible to distinguish between ‘ art ’ and ‘ design ’ the former is generally used to denote painting and sculpture and the latter is concerned with the production of graphic material , three-dimensional or textile/fashion artefacts by hand or machine processing .
28	People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government .
29	The thresholds for small companies are increased to not more than £2.8m for turnover and not more than £1.4m for the balance sheet total , although the number of employees remains the same at an average of 50 .
30	The thresholds for medium companies are increased to not more than £11.2m for turnover and not more than £5.6m for the balance sheet total ( the number of employees also remains the same at an average of 250 ) .