Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 2 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 3 | or even if just the noun and pronoun changed places : |
| 4 | Not only was there no chance of seeing Karen , but Trish and Brian took over the house with heavy hints about housework that needed doing or how if only the back garden was cleared we could plant organic vegetables . |
| 5 | they take books out once or twice and then the older members do n't take 'em out |
| 6 | Then I noticed that slowly and imperceptibly the rpm was falling while all other engine indications were normal . |
| 7 | Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out . |
| 8 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 9 | ‘ She assumes that sooner or later the body 'll be discovered and there 'll be a hue and cry . |
| 10 | We hope that sooner or later the philosophy that classes people as mere units of labour will be consigned to the dustbin of history which it deserves . |
| 11 | I this could be a welcome providing that sooner or later the democratic element catches up with the bureaucratic one . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Agriculture has said that sooner or later the pound will get an easier ride on the currency markets and that cereal farmers , who since Black Wednesday have almost doubled their projected income , must guard against being caught by sudden changes . |
| 13 | It appears that more or less the company would do it . |
| 14 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 15 | Fenella stood very still and stared at the Robe , seeing that the lids were closed and that here and there the lashes were matted and sticky-looking . |
| 16 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 17 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 18 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |
| 19 | Slowly and surely the truth of what had happened came out , and slowly and surely the Elves rallied to the side of Caledor . |
| 20 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 21 | This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God , and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make . |
| 22 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 23 | No matter what settlement is reached , if either republic , particularly Serbia , feels that it has been unfairly treated , any ceasefire will be temporary , and sooner or later the matter will rise again . |
| 24 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 25 | There were hoof-marks of horses , and once or twice the slots of deer , and out on the very edge where the track was worst a narrow winding verge where travellers on foot had been forced to push their way through the undergrowth . |
| 26 | Men and women who reported average or worse health in the past 12 months had 60% higher rates of short spells of absence and more than twice the rates of long spells compared with those who reported good health . |
| 27 | And more and more the fast-approaching deadline of the next dummy edition was pressing on his mind . |
| 28 | for minerals enforcement , we have a a habit of my patch and up until now the minerals companies have run rings round our officers because we have n't got sufficient staff in our department . |
| 29 | However , this paper has attempted to demonstrate that there is a whole range of dimensions to the experience of ageing with a disability , and also that both the subjective and objective reality of ageing can be understood only in the context of prior experience . |
| 30 | I should be grateful if you would confirm that these seem like reasonable quantities to you and also that only the amendments I have marked are required . |