Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these firms , as I said , they wanted this or that or the other and with er because of this fellow Mr he did nothing to get it out of his so it just happened , you know what I mean . |
| 2 | Practically everyone gets roped into ‘ bowling ’ at one time or another but the family , and , always seem to maintain the highest profile on the alley . |
| 3 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 4 | Very commonplace today go in to Thomas Cook 's there 'll be a video running continually with one destination or another or an activity holiday etcetera . |
| 5 | I am also concerned that after this debate there will be no winners not even the fox , for it will be killed it will be killed in some way or another and the feelings that are left between the two differing sides will harbour grudges and resentment for many months to come and I 'd like to also bearing in mind the comments that were made by Councillor ask how committed the people who have proposed this mo motion are against barbaric sport . |
| 6 | In the confusion of battle an accident might decide the issue one way or another and the fortunes of a single day might undo the patient work of months or years . |
| 7 | It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined . |
| 8 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 9 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 10 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 11 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 12 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 13 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 14 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 15 | Or did the church actively create the canon in response to Marcion and other sectarian leaders whose ‘ inspired ’ writings were either more or less than the church accepted ? |
| 16 | Where , on a buy-in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . |
| 17 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 18 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 19 | Numbers are serially ordered ( 1,2,3,4 … n ) as are the differences between numbers so that , for example , the distance between any pair of numbers is greater than , equal to , or less than the difference between any other pair of numbers . |
| 20 | The direction of the correction depends on whether the demand elasticity , , is greater or less than the elasticity of factor substitution in the corporate sector . |
| 21 | This was no more or less than the truth . |
| 22 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 23 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 24 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 25 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 26 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 27 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 28 | Usually with a drink or several and the company of good friends . |
| 29 | Erm the the impression I 'm left with I must admit is that that that the cart has followed the horse if that 's right in that erm the environmental justification for the figures has been retrospective . |
| 30 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |