Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the inmates of Holloway Prison , where until recently the girls were placed , think they are innocent , as the letter Ann received showed . |
| 2 | They lay in a glass case in his dressing-room , displayed , like Turtons ' file , on a cushion of faded red velvet with the shadow of a pistol in darker red where until recently the Colt had been . |
| 3 | All it meant was I could attack the trial in the job , which would have made it better for me , or from outside the job . ’ |
| 4 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 5 | She walked along to the little café , where at least the umbrellas and the plane trees gave some shade . |
| 6 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 7 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 8 | It 's rewarding to rummage around these little mines of information , particularly for free ( or at least the cost of a local call ) . |
| 9 | For example , when the State Department 's Far Eastern Office was trying , unsuccessfully , to put together a compromise paper that would be agreed with the European Office , one may applaud the objective of an Indo-China that was to be fully self-governed , autonomous , and democratic : but there was a world of difference between a ‘ national ’ and a ‘ federal ’ government which would become obvious as events unfolded and the qualification , which Moffat and his colleagues seemed to accept , to full self-government which was explicit in Indo-China 's recommended partnership in the French Union , and was , by implication reserved to France as a matter of imperial concern , precisely the point , or at least the formality , which produced the irreparable break between France and Ho 's infant Republic . |
| 10 | But the star of the show , or at least the back seat of Armstrong , was Simon the Stripping Sexton . |
| 11 | In ages past , the land must have been continuous , or at least the sea passage but a short one . |
| 12 | Do not be misled by assurances from dealers that all oriental rugs or at least the ones they are selling , will automatically increase in value ; this simply is not true . |
| 13 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |
| 14 | He could see the stocking factory , though , or at least the shell of it . |
| 15 | It is a formulation of the objectives of an assessment scheme , classifying what is to be assessed and possibly how the assessment is to be carried out — or at least the constraints within which choices of assessment method is permitted . |
| 16 | They have to dance to the Russian tune , or at least the government does . |
| 17 | Er reading this article or at least the heading from it and the bit in the paper , you got the impression that solicitors were as bad as banks . |
| 18 | While the former is not associated with work satisfaction patterns in this sample , the latter is — or at least the relationship is in the expected direction . |
| 19 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 20 | Believe it or not , but we do not tread all over each other to get where we want to go — or at least the majority of us do n't ! ’ |
| 21 | The pros are meticulous on these points , or at least the majority of them are , because others — like them making their living — are coming up behind . |
| 22 | They need the right skills and motivation or at least the chance that they can somehow acquire these . |
| 23 | Such failures would be difficult to trace without specialist equipment so most of us would be prepared for a bill , or at least the hassle of a return under guarantee . |
| 24 | For the larger builder with an accounts department , or at least the assistance of a bookkeeper , all financial transactions will be recorded on a regular basis and in a systematic manner . |
| 25 | So to New York , where the world of women 's tennis met for the Virginia Slims Championships to a background of political ferment , following my disclosure in The Daily Telegraph , that , like the men three years earlier , the women — or at least the WTA board — felt they were also ready to declare UDI . |
| 26 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |
| 27 | They try to make the weather absorbing , or at least the programmes , by turning the presenters into characters , with jokes and fancy dress . |
| 28 | According to Cohn , Indians preferred a compromise solution , or at least the fiction of a compromise . |
| 29 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
| 30 | And the answer to my question , to be useful , should not be ‘ because my calculations show that this is so , and it will save your client £X to do it ’ , but , ‘ because the way your market works is thus ; and your advertising — or at least the campaign you are running — affects it so ’ . |