Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of obligation which pervades and often exacerbates the traditional patron-client relationship is usually diminished or wholly absent in the author-subscriber relationship . |
| 2 | However , for a non-working partner this allowance could be partially or wholly transferable to the working partner ; i.e. there was transferability of tax allowances . |
| 3 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
| 4 | If it is a matter of delicate legal analysis what the best interpretation of the precedents cited in McLoughlin would require in that case , then any answer provides very weak evidence about which decision would be most popular or most beneficial for the future . |
| 5 | Container growing is convenient , too , in that herbs can be protected in winter , the containers can be put where most convenient or most suitable for the herbs , and they can be used for decorating otherwise austere sites such as paving , basement areas and concrete yards . |
| 6 | But run too far in unsuitable shoes , whether the cheapest or most expensive on the market , and your feet will tell you . |
| 7 | Thus an MCF is a multiple NIF , allowing the borrower to draw funds by whichever means is cheapest or most convenient at the time . |
| 8 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 9 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 10 | This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties . |
| 11 | The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government . |
| 12 | The first component , the basic rock particle , can be large like sand and grit or microscopically small like the individual grains of clay , thereby imparting respectively much of the basic behavioural characteristics of different soil types : light and quickly draining , heavy , sticky and liable to waterlogging , or a happy medium in between . |
| 13 | The business of manhandling sacks has been replaced by automation , the grain being conveyed mechanically or pneumatically direct to the mill . |
| 14 | As a rough guideline , if you are not running sub 2:40 for the marathon or below 1:30 for the half , you do n't need them . |
| 15 | There looked to be three or perhaps four of the Tree Spirits . |
| 16 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
| 17 | It is enough if the dependent conditional ( 1 ) , or perhaps one of the variants ( 1a ) or ( lb ) , is true of the two things . |
| 18 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 19 | And this 'll either be the head teacher of a school , or perhaps one of the governors of the school . |
| 20 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 21 | Or perhaps another of the cai living quarters had again been burned down by coolies in one of the other villages ? |
| 22 | A squint means that the eyes are not straight ; one is directed inwards or outwards relative to the other . |
| 23 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 24 | Some of the key questions to be addressed are : Has the UK income distribution become more or less equal over the last 10-15 years ? |
| 25 | And Angela Hampel one of the GDR 's leading feminists now realises that while men and women were more or less equal in an impoverished communist society , in the capitalist West the great divide looms ever wider . |
| 26 | WHILE the doolally correspondence continues with old India hands by the dozen becoming involved , other words meaning idiot , and more or less exclusive to the North-East , are drying up . |
| 27 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 28 | Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second . |
| 29 | – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s . |
| 30 | The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 . |