Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [art] [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 | I do n't suppose you 'd er get that sort of relationship nowadays and of course it was during the war when people er the fact that erm there was a war on erm was a levelling down or up or at least a levelling of , of people 's situations they , |
| 9 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 10 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 11 | It would be effective only if all , or at least a majority of firms — especially the large international search businesses — agreed to join . |
| 12 | Many still stand happily alone but they all know that without an ethernet or some other network port or at least a modem , they are very low technology in the world of the network . |
| 13 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 14 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 15 | Or at least a disagreement . |
| 16 | If there has n't been an historic massacre there , then somebody ought to organise one , or at least a bit of a tiff , to do justice to its shadowy , sombre sentinels of cliffs . |
| 17 | Mrs Gray was a tall , fairish woman with a slight stoop or at least a tendency for her shoulders to bow forward round her chest . |
| 18 | You can seek help with it in a number of ways : there are your own staff and possibly other work colleagues ; and there may be a personnel department or at least a person with some training in this area . |
| 19 | In the 1950s scientific experiment appeared to confirm the existence of an ‘ unconscious ’ , or at least a part of the brain where all experiences were stored . |
| 20 | He said what she was thinking — or at least a part of it ! |
| 21 | So here I am , the ‘ generous ’ reader who might have a manual available , or at least a photocopy . |
| 22 | Obviously this is not relevant if you have a tiny galley kitchen , or a slit of corridor space , but if you can add a chair or two , or at least a couple of stools where there were none before ; and some sort of bar , or at least an enlarged counter top if you ca n't fit in a decent table , then you are well on the way to making your kitchen a more welcoming place . |
| 23 | ‘ Find yourself a job , or at least a hobby that you enjoy doing . |
| 24 | You might be bursting with ideas and talking fifty to the dozen Monday , but less robust souls need a quiet place or at least a breathing space to assimilate and appreciate what you have to say . |
| 25 | A young woman going to buy material for her Salwar Kamiz in Bradford or Newham would almost invariably be accompanied by her mother or husband or cousin or at least a friend . |
| 26 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 27 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 28 | There is a plot , too , or at least a series of threads woven through these recapitulations of bygone existence . |
| 29 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 30 | There is a certain dishonesty , or at least a limitation of truth , in presenting only historical facts . |