Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was .
2 The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle .
3 What happens inside metal plates in response to an applied potential or for that matter what happens to charges inside any material ?
4 I certainly do n't want to have to do that , but if it becomes a problem I will : I 'm not going to put to the continuation of the list here in jeopardy ( or for that matter my good name , such as it is ! )
5 erm it is n't a problem just for Hereford or for this country it 's an international problem which has evoked interest over the whole world .
6 As I battled my way over or through each obstacle I 'd think I 'll be ahead of him after this — he 'll never manage this one .
7 b ) any Petition which has been presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office and in which the Petitioners complain of any amendment as proposed in the filled-up Bill or of any matter which has arisen during the progress of the Bill before the Select Committee , being a Petition in which the Petitioners pray to be heard by themselves , their Counsel or Agents .
8 These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks .
9 To support the event , therefore , ‘ product price ’ should be included in the PRODUCT entity , or in another entity which is brought into the model .
10 Letters of Request must be in the language of the authority requested to execute it ( or be accompanied by a translation into that language ) ; or in English or French , unless a party has made a reservation under Article 33 excluding the use of English or French ; or in another language which a Contracting State has declared its readiness to accept .
11 Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said .
12 The rule is that one can not claim for damage to the defective product itself or to any product which was supplied with the defective product comprised within it .
13 Presumably after that we w or on that date we 'll start to get phone calls ?
14 Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be .
15 His knowledge of these people and his influence with them , was due to his own efforts — or at any rate they were nothing to do with these employers .
16 On graduating , she travelled — in Mexico , Madrid and Mississippi — and now she is back here to transform our drab little lives , or at any rate our drab furniture .
17 Head of Department : ‘ I 've achieved , or at any rate I 'm likely to , a position of authority .
18 Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming .
19 This large and increasing number of old , and very old , people will contain a high proportion of individuals who have either no family setting and connections , or at any rate none that is of practical relevance to their way of life .
20 ( 2 ) Reasons for decisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above ma be required to be given by the board in writing on a request being ma e to the clerk of the board , not more than 48 hours after the decision is made , by the applicant or , as the case may be , by the holder of the licence , or by any objector , or by any complainer who appeared at the hearing .
21 This planning appeared to have a cyclical character because Beattie 's data showed that for each speaker there were both hesitant and fluent phases following one after the other .
22 It is worth noting that for each price there is a rate of return consistent with it , or conversely for every rate of return there is a price consistent with it .
23 Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital .
24 He supposed that for some reason they became rarer in thin fibres and almost non-existent in the very thinnest fibres , perhaps because there was simply no room for them .
25 Also I could hear irony in his tone and I thought that for some reason he was very annoyed indeed .
26 For example , suppose that for some reason you wish to remember a long list of dissociated objects such as aeroplane , alarm clock , carrot , television , etc .
27 The other is that for some reason you 've been too scared to let anyone close enough . ’
28 She knew that for some reason it was important for Jasper to have it from her .
29 I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it .
30 ‘ So her father must have been a canon , ’ said Mark , though he felt that for some reason it was the canon 's widow who cut more ice here .
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