Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic principle of the Act is in s. 2(1) : " Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , every person to whom subsection ( 2 ) … applies shall be liable for the damage . " |
| 2 | Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person to whom subsection ( 2 ) applies shall be liable . |
| 3 | Liability of an effective supplier is envisaged under s2(3) as follows : ( 3 ) Subject , as aforesaid , where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person who supplied the product ( whether to the person who suffered the damage , to the producer of any product in which the product in question is comprised or to any other person ) shall be liable for the damage if ( a ) the person who suffered the damage requests the supplier to identify one or more of the persons ( whether still in existence or not ) to whom subsection ( 2 ) above applies in relation to the product ; ( b ) that request is made within a reasonable period after the damage occurs and at a time when it is not reasonably practicable for the person making the request to identify all those persons ; and ( c ) the supplier fails , within a reasonable period after receiving the request , either to comply with the request or to identify the person who supplied the product to him . |
| 4 | However , in county schools it must now be ‘ wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character ’ , reflecting ‘ the broad traditions of Christian belief without being distinctive of any particular Christian denomination ’ . |
| 5 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 6 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
| 7 | Erm owing to the extent Chairman and I think erm we we have established er we were happy that the the level of development er rightly or wrongly as a as a commitment is already in excess of the hundred and two hectares being spoken about . |
| 8 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
| 9 | When the algorithm begins , nodes are ’ scattered ’ randomly or evenly across a space described by the values of their weights w . |
| 10 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 11 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |
| 12 | So that even in a passage like the following , which is moving away from Locke 's philosophic teaching , Locke 's influence is apparent . |
| 13 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 14 | On the down-side of this variety is the fact that ‘ Broken ’ does n't hang together that well as a whole package , probably because it 's essentially a compilation of unreleased tracks from the last year 's studio experiments . |
| 15 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 16 | Whilst we believe in our biologically-determined nature , there will be no possible utopia apart from these two : a matriarchy run by morally superior women , where desire is excluded , and where our innate niceness means that we can all live happily ever after ; or , we let the chaos out , and we rule fiercely and savagely for a short-lived reign , our ferocious and insatiable desire destroying everything around us . |
| 17 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 18 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 19 | He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet . |
| 20 | He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962 . |
| 21 | This involves the hypnotherapist talking you gently and quietly through a basic relaxation exercise which is not unlike the early stages of yoga . |
| 22 | Read through your full speech several times , preferably aloud and preferably into a tape-recorder , but do not try to memorise it word for word . |
| 23 | ‘ When somebody is in a situation where they feel there is no way out , feel trapped , lost , unloved , helpless , powerless , they are in a definite negative spiral and are getting deeper and deeper into a place where they are more and more frightened and despairing . |
| 24 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 25 | Adam sat motionless in one of the corners — looking less and less like a real person , Ruth noted ; he never spoke now , or appeared to hear if anyone addressed him . |
| 26 | An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side . |
| 27 | A BOAT that can run swiftly and silently without a churning propeller has been the dream of naval commanders ever since the first submarine slid gurgling beneath the waves . |
| 28 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 29 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 30 | Our end of the village has thought long and hard for a couple of weeks about John Major 's new honours system and we 've decided to go for it . |