Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's a matter of fact rather than rather than rather than a matter what is shown on the one inch map . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 10 | Do n't think that just because a shampoo does n't lather well it is n't doing its job . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it does not follow that just because a woman is living with a man she necessarily has ( or wants ) his ‘ support ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | She felt Fand grip her arm ; the white face turned , whiter than before as a gust of fire passed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It should be noted however , that often when a minister acts through his civil servants , there is no delegation . |
| 17 | We find that frequently when a husband does listen , he does little to indicate to his wife that he is actually considering her input . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This shows that even if a court is not prepared to award one remedy , it may be prepared to give another instead . |
| 24 | … It has been held that even if a court , having full discretion in the matter of the costs of any proceeding , deals in its order with such costs , a party can still enforce an antecedent agreement in relation thereto inconsistent with the court 's order : Mansfield v. Robinson . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that even if a person falls within the definition of " dependant " provided in the Act he or she will still have to prove loss arising from the death of the deceased , and in practice many relatives have no claim at all . |
| 26 | Thus , for centuries it used to be thought that even if a woman expressed her lack of consent in every way within her power , if she conceived as a result of the intercourse , she must in fact have consented . |
| 27 | ‘ They know that even if a forward gets past them , the striker is faced with this massive Dane racing out to confront him . |
| 28 | Here it is argued that jurisdiction is conditional on its proper exercise so that even if a tribunal is entitled to enter into the enquiry , it can lose its power by the way that power is used . |
| 29 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 30 | If anything the expensive fiasco at Three Mile Island ( this issue , p 79 ) could be interpreted as showing that even when a bunch of incompetents is let loose on a nuclear power station and does its best to help an accident along , the chances of harming the public are slim . |