Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] [adv] [art] " 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 | or even if just the noun and pronoun changed places : |
| 3 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 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 | You will recall discussion on the addition of Clydesdale District Council as a partner in the initiative , although not as yet a member in terms of the Articles of Association of the Trust . |
| 6 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 7 | This process goes on and on until eventually the position is as shown in Table 16.9 . |
| 8 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 12 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 13 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 14 | The central struggle , but not as yet the bloodiest , is being fought by Serbs who are opposed to the independence of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 15 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 16 | The horses have been here for a year but up until yesterday the doors have been closed to the fans … yesterday they were opened up and thousands rolled up . |
| 17 | In July 1888 , the Executive Committee resolved that branches should be opened at North Shields , South Shields , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough and Blyth " as soon as ever the Secretary thinks it advisable to do so " . |
| 18 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 19 | Its status as an historical monument will involve several constraints as well as just a low hammer price for its French or French resident purchaser . |
| 20 | Micro Systems Maintenance , one of the country 's larger maintenance companies , says it will cover all your peripherals as well as just the bog-standard PC . |
| 21 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 22 | The Greek revolt was seen as a symbolic er event as well as just an anti Turkish er erm uprising . |
| 23 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 24 | The team 's report will be presented to the Colombian government , as well as both the British and Colombian universities involved in the expedition and UK-based organisations which may be able to put the information to further use . |
| 25 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
| 26 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |
| 27 | In the demonstration New Scientist played with , which involved data about a doughnut factory , there were confusing references to SPVSRS ( supervisors ) as well as quite a lot of mathematical symbols . |
| 28 | If you are working outside as well as inside the home , try to use some of your earnings to ease household jobs — for example , substitute duvets for sheets and blankets to save laundry and bed-making , or buy a food processor to do in seconds what takes hours by hand . |
| 29 | It was of significance both outside as well as inside the limits of Aquitaine . |
| 30 | There you could meet the likes of Orson Welles , Norman Mailer , Lillian Hellman , Virgil Thomson , Martha Graham , Ethel Merman , and Anita Loos — as well as almost every star in American showbusiness . |