Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 32 | Yearning for turquoise seas and sunshine skies , or just suffering from mid-winter blues ? |
| 33 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 34 | It is now an acceptable place to bivouac or just to break for lunch in bad weather . |
| 35 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 36 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 37 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 38 | Since then I have refused to subscribe to the view that there is something malevolent or subconsciously deliberate about forgetfulness . |
| 39 | For example , if someone is looking agitated or clearly fuming with anger , indicate openly that you can see they are upset . |
| 40 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 41 | Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death . |
| 42 | A section cut and polished through the specimen ( on the right ) shows the internal chambers filled or partly filled with calcite . |
| 43 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they de dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 44 | The decision came after a year-long test to ensure that packaging made from pulp mould was strong enough to protect cameras should they be dropped or roughly handled during transport . |
| 45 | Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place . |
| 46 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 47 | For example , statements that young girls deliberately or increasingly conceive in order to secure local authority accommodation have yet to be substantiated . |
| 48 | Frayed or cut wires , for instance , can destroy expensive property by fire or even kill through electrocution . |
| 49 | Similarly , alienation , crime and upheaval had much less to do with individualistic action or even changes in community association . |
| 50 | The technique is therefore very powerful in the examination of systems that are chemically inhomogeneous , or even varying with time . |
| 51 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 52 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 53 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 54 | In short , theology is no longer simply taken for granted or even accepted by society at large . |
| 55 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 56 | Before long , a celebrity might find there is no time to tour write new songs or even go on holiday — there is still the charity compilation LP to complete , the three benefit gigs to appear at and the university talks tour to do . |
| 57 | They could also be taken on to rough pasture , to distant resources , or even kept in woodland ( their natural habitat ) , though milkers would not be taken too far from the settlement . |
| 58 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 59 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 60 | Tutors were offered little or no training , or even access to fulltime employment , not to mention a career structure . |