Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 2 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 3 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 4 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 5 | Where better than the south of France , which she knew like the back of her hand ? |
| 6 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 7 | The body is normally able to control the balance of cholesterol , by producing more if the intake is low or less if the intake is increased . |
| 8 | To revert to the metaphor of weighing , in choices of means the traveller would be the weigher , but in this choice of an end he is the arm of the balance , and when the information is assimilated the impulse to go prevails over the reluctance to take the risk as the arm goes up or down when the balance is fully loaded . |
| 9 | The length of the bar in that paint pot will change up or down and the figure above the paint pot will also change . |
| 10 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 11 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 12 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 13 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 14 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 15 | Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop . |
| 16 | In this notation positive feedback corresponds to or so that the gain is increased . |
| 17 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 18 | By the end of February , a week or so after the battle opened , the German advance had been stemmed . |
| 19 | When addresses are required , these are needed only in case the clinic discovers an important infection a day or so after the patient has left and needs to get in touch in a hurry . |
| 20 | Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind . |
| 21 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Miss Thomas was breathing and a pulse was still discernible but , according to a statement from an inspector at the station , she stopped breathing a minute or so before an ambulance arrived at 1.33 a.m . |
| 23 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 24 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 25 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |
| 26 | Although this potential does exist , actual examples of abuse of parent power through PTAs in the quarter of a century or so since the publication of the report are few and far between . |
| 27 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 28 | It is still more likely than not that all EC countries will have ratified the Maastricht Treaty by the end of 1993 , and it can then be left to one side for a year or so while the easing of German monetary policy and a return to positive European economic growth ease the pains of convergence . |
| 29 | They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 30 | To my disbelief I felt a resistance for a second or so and the rod sprung back over my shoulder . |