Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 2 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 3 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 4 | A new entrant , joining in July 1960 , had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas . |
| 5 | The flaming Maryland had crashed a mile or so North of Dingli . |
| 6 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
| 7 | The 3,000 or so subscribers to Mountain will help to bolster High 's circulation figures with the added hope that when the ex- Mountain subscriptions expire , some will renew them with High . |
| 8 | Busy accountants would obviously like to save the 100 or so hours of training time that structured CPE can save them ( through the difference between obtaining the recommended target of 150 CPE points from 50 structured hours or 150 unstructured hours ) . |
| 9 | During a stay in Italy de Superville produced 2,500 or so drawings of Tuscan , Umbrian and Roman works of art , intended to be used as illustrations for a history of art . |
| 10 | But the invitation has now been widened to include 100 or so members of parliament , partly because of their new willingness to negotiate , partly to counter-balance the heads of 11 of Russia 's 19 semi-autonomous republics who have already rejected the draft . |
| 11 | It does not , for instance , impinge on the fifteen or so criteria for sound initial teacher training which come from the CATE in its guidance about the professional education of those who teach in schools . |
| 12 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 13 | Pour about two inches of this mixture into a shallow tray and submerge 50 or so lengths of reed at a time . |
| 14 | Around her squealed and shouted the sixty or so pupils of Thrush Green Church of England Primary School . |
| 15 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 16 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
| 17 | Quite an impressive sight , we may suppose , as she pitched and tossed in full sail across the Atlantic with fifteen or so mariners on board . |
| 18 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |
| 19 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 20 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 21 | Of the one hundred or so mosaics under examination only twenty are figured . |
| 22 | Another dealer would regularly punt out £40,000 or so worth of stock or so on the account to — wait for it — a school dinner lady . |
| 23 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 24 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 25 | Mass civil disorder , whether it be the result of a real or imagined grievance or merely over-indulgence in alcohol , is not purely a recent phenomenon . |
| 26 | Or Just £10 Per Month |
| 27 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
| 28 | I 'm sure that he is , the people who 've come from there , quite clearly recovering alcoholics or mental hospital patients , or possibly people from prison , and I 've known enough people in my time to know this . |
| 29 | BellSouth Corp , Atlanta warns that first quarter profits will be reduced by about $20m to $25m or about $0.05 per share because of costs associated with the severe winter weather that scoured the south : among the extraordinary costs are labour and material costs to maintain and restore telephone service . |
| 30 | On the basis of a building purchase price of £200,000 , the total cost of the project would be £1 million , or about £16,000 per flat . |