Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of the young workers interviewed had no intention of remaining in agriculture — they hoped to seek more lucrative employment , mainly in the building industry , as lorry drivers , as garage mechanics or perhaps as engineering workers in local factories . |
| 2 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 3 | A year or so after Prince Harry 's birth , there occurred a rather uncomfortable interview with both Waleses in discussion with Sir Alastair Burnet ( in November 1985 ) , in which it appeared that their roles had been totally reversed : the Princess had become articulate , while the Prince appeared almost monosyllabic . |
| 4 | Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red-shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream . |
| 5 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 6 | In May this year the Registration Officer , who is the person responsible for collecting Poll Tax , will send out a form to every household asking for the name , address and date of birth of everyone who will be 18 or over by 1st April 1991 ( that is , everyone who will be 17 or over when Poll Tax is introduced ) . |
| 7 | Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets . |
| 8 | By contrast , those still stone free nine months or more after dissolution treatment has stopped are genuinely likely to have had complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 9 | In August 1973 a two-tier pricing system was introduced : the price of oil from wells already functioning in 1972 was fixed at a maximum of $4.35 per barrel ; oil from wells begun in 1973 or later and oil imports were exempted from the price ceiling . |
| 10 | We do body massage or back and shoulder massage . |
| 11 | Regular meetings with other health visitors for information purposes or purely as support groups can help you to combat the isolation sometimes described by health visitors working in both rural and inner city communities . |
| 12 | Yet the cancer patients , who had significantly longer mouth-to-anus transit times , were not obstructed clinically or radiologically and stool frequencies were similar in all groups . |
| 13 | What stories he had beaten the great Stanford Roberts on , or even whether Stanford Roberts had been great after all ? |
| 14 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 15 | The best policy is probably to offer increased fetal surveillance after 42 weeks ( or earlier if risk factors are present ) and to terminate the pregnancy if adverse features occur . |
| 16 | Not because of Beatty as the studio publicity suggests , or the fact that cast and crew have 68 Oscar nominations between them , nor even because Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman have uncredited , subordinate roles in the movie . |
| 17 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 18 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 19 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 20 | and so that money prizes are n't gon na go to a school like |
| 21 | In manual techniques it is important to position the body so that maximum leverage can be applied and so that body weight can be used to supplement muscle . |
| 22 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 23 | They have got to find names and perhaps if Steven Cull decides to race with them that will do the trick . |
| 24 | It was heavy on him too ; he was carrying it all in his mind , the whole picture of Charley , coming into the district , moving into the disused back of Belmodes ; and perhaps because Mouncy Street was what it was . |
| 25 | This means that your monthly payments are the same for 12 months at a time , unlike the standard variable rate , which goes up and down as base rates change . |
| 26 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 27 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 28 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 29 | And his first goal tends to get forgotten … but it was 100 times better than Cuntona 's effort a few weeks back , and better than Peles effort … in fact probably the best goal of that type ( 45 yard lobs ) youll ever see . |
| 30 | Three times bigger and better than Napes Needle ’ . |