Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 2 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Miss Thomas was breathing and a pulse was still discernible but , according to a statement from an inspector at the station , she stopped breathing a minute or so before an ambulance arrived at 1.33 a.m . |
| 4 | They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 5 | These assessments of DAI , anthropometric and laboratory measurements were repeated at week 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 8 , 12 , 16 , 28 , 40 , and 52 , or sooner if a relapse occurred . |
| 6 | If you are married , or committed to a serious relationship , have one child or more and a home to support , then the hours you work and the amount of travel involved in getting to and from work may limit your options . |
| 7 | Finally , the requirement that a bystander should be terrified was qualified where the offence occurred in public , so that it was not necessary to prove either that a bystander was actually terrified , or even present , or even that a bystander was even likely to be present . |
| 8 | ‘ We can not yet say when he will play again , or even if an operation will be necessary . ’ |
| 9 | If the Net Present Value is positive , this shows that an enterprise borrowing funds at the given interest rate would make a profit after meeting interest payments , or alternatively that an enterprise possessing surplus money capital would make a better return on the funds by carrying out the investment project rather than lending the funds at interest . |
| 10 | So far as the finger-work or typesetting goes , she is as quick or quicker than a man ? — They say she is more deft and better adapted to it " ( a trade unionist ) . |
| 11 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 12 | By late December , however , the president had , in any case , reversed his position and now took the view that rather than a tax increase a tax cut was required to stimulate the economy . |
| 13 | It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method . |
| 14 | It 's a matter of fact rather than rather than rather than a matter what is shown on the one inch map . |
| 15 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 16 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 17 | Do n't think that just because a shampoo does n't lather well it is n't doing its job . |
| 18 | Unfortunately it does not follow that just because a woman is living with a man she necessarily has ( or wants ) his ‘ support ’ . |
| 19 | Section 2(3) seems to go further by saying that just because a party has entered into a contract with a term imposing risk on him , this " is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance " of that risk . |
| 20 | As Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) puts it , ‘ A feeling can be conveyed more than once when a person , having ceased to ‘ suffer it ’ , and now at a distance studying it , comes to define its essential form ’ ( p. 112 ) . |
| 21 | Rachel had always thought that dodgems were inappropriately named , and that day was no exception , for as they cruised round there were many more bumps than dodges , accompanied by screams and shrieks as the guitars throbbed louder than ever and a siren wailed above them , |
| 22 | She felt Fand grip her arm ; the white face turned , whiter than before as a gust of fire passed . |
| 23 | Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions . |
| 24 | It should be noted however , that often when a minister acts through his civil servants , there is no delegation . |
| 25 | We find that frequently when a husband does listen , he does little to indicate to his wife that he is actually considering her input . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that even though a test result would be ‘ negative ’ during the ‘ window ’ period , a person would be infectious at this stage , if they have HIV . |
| 27 | In A Room of One 's Own Virginia Woolf argues that even though a person 's gift for writing may be small , it is nevertheless death to hide it . |
| 28 | The implication of this trend is that even if a country could control the money supply growth rate it would not be able to control the domestic long run inflation rate . |
| 29 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 30 | So that even if a proprietor or advertiser does not exert undue pressure , there are other forces that impinge on the ‘ freedom ’ of an editor and a newspaper . |