Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the purely locomotive-hauled coach could be obsolete or at least an enthusiast 's treasure by the end of the nineties . |
| 2 | Actors throughout history had staggered on to stages in various states of alcoholic debility , but they had almost always got through the lines , or at least an approximation of them . |
| 3 | Important : This relaxation exercise is most beneficial if practised once or twice a day on an empty stomach , or at least an hour after eating . |
| 4 | Nevertheless I consider it essential that we try and reach an agreement or at least an understanding before the report is considered by the Finance Committee . |
| 5 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 6 | Realism signifies a love , or at least an acceptance , of diversity . |
| 7 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 8 | Whilst the purchaser may wish to elicit the vendors ' considered expectations before giving any indication , it is doubtful that much progress will be made in satisfying the above objectives without the purchaser giving a suitably caveated valuation range or at least an indication of the band of earnings multiples/net asset premiums it may be prepared to apply . |
| 9 | Even the indignation of satire might assume the same moral perspective as that of the order being challenged , or at least an alternative to it . |
| 10 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 11 | There was always a subsidiary social and political objective behind Philipps 's reforming zeal , to combat crime and disorder through a reimposition or at least an encouragement of religious discipline . |
| 12 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 13 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 14 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
| 15 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
| 16 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 17 | The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated . |
| 18 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
| 19 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 20 | So far , we have looked at ways of getting started , at researching your ideas and at how an argument is structured . |
| 21 | They were told to keep the volume very low , there was no proper lighting rig and at 10.45pm an announcement was made while they were on stage : ‘ Last orders at the bar now please ! ’ |
| 22 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 23 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 24 | The decision as to when an odour will amount to an actionable nuisance at law depends on the whole of the circumstances of the case in question . |
| 25 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 26 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 27 | That is the definition as to why an application should be called in . |