Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There looked to be three or perhaps four of the Tree Spirits . |
| 3 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
| 4 | It is enough if the dependent conditional ( 1 ) , or perhaps one of the variants ( 1a ) or ( lb ) , is true of the two things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And this 'll either be the head teacher of a school , or perhaps one of the governors of the school . |
| 7 | The richest town in the area was Lavenham , where trade developed early , and where perhaps three-quarters of the population depended directly or indirectly on cloth manufacturing . |
| 8 | If ownership of a majority of the shares of the employing company , whether the employer is a holding company or only one of a number of subsidiaries in a group of companies , falls into new hands , the employees of that company come under the control of the new owners of the company , whether they consent to that development or not . |
| 9 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 10 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 11 | Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts . |
| 12 | If Lavenham is the outstanding example , it is also of interest to look at Newbury , a borough of some 1,250 people , or about 1,600 including the suburban hamlet Speenhamland . |
| 13 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 14 | Or even one of the popular 1950s names like Linda , Janice and Susan , which immediately date the owners . |
| 15 | But it 's well worth it : sweet and juicy with a lovely flavour and large fruits , three or even two to a pound . |
| 16 | Joyce accepted that any one of these weapons may have been used or even two of the same used in conjunction . |
| 17 | After only 4000 reactor years worldwide , Chernobyl approached the worst conceivable nuclear reactor accident , which was previously estimated to be of a probability somewhere near 1 in 10,000 or even I in a million per reactor year . |
| 18 | They show tribute ‘ constituencies ’ ranging from as few as fifteen persons to several hundreds or even thousands in the case of some of the bigger nationalities — in particular the Kangalas , Baturus , Borogon and Megin tribes of Yakutia , and the Bulagat and Tabunut tribes of Buryat Mongols . |
| 19 | Mm I mean my son buys two or even three at a time and |
| 20 | A pilgrim , whether bound for Rome , or Jerusalem , or simply one of the many shrines in England , would have expected to see the relics of the saints . |
| 21 | Visiting a friend at the university or maybe one of the towns like Abingdon ? |
| 22 | The Board 's activities have been concentrated into three growth areas — around Fort William , Inverness and Caithness , where almost one-half of the labour force of the region live — and the aim is to strengthen them further as both industrial and service centres . |
| 23 | Difficult situations often arise where a conveyancer is acting for seller and buyer ( eg they are both long-established clients of your firm ) where either one of the parties instructs you then to renegotiate the price of the transaction . |
| 24 | In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ . |
| 25 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 26 | He stood for a while in the darkness , hoping that perhaps one of the nuns , Lady Amelia or Dame Agatha , would follow him out , but no one came . |
| 27 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 28 | For the first fifty seven of them to be set up , at a cost of half a million pounds , did a survey and found that only twelve of the fifty seven were financially viable and that did n't include the Trust . |
| 29 | My Lords , before the Noble Lord sits down , perhaps I could ask him to remember , he was saying s how , how splendidly the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy appointed magistrates and I entirely agree , but they appoint them , not from a list that they 've constructed themselves , they appoint them because the keepers of the roles for respective counties propose names to them which they very carefully er selected by the very special and an an and complicated process of of er of er of of examination of people whose names come forward , I find in my case that only one-third of the people whom I interview for this purpose with my Committee er are the ones which I 've I propose . |
| 30 | The Treasury is understood to be insisting that only eight of the threatened 31 pits remain open . |