Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
| 2 | At one time the question was much debated whether meta-ethics can or ought to be neutral as between ethical theories , or indeed whether the two should be distinguished at all . |
| 3 | Now it was apparently neither here nor there that the two even happened to be present . |
| 4 | Workers had an interest in producing goods and higher management knew about production — how else could they have become higher management ? — and so if the two got together all the crises would be resolved . |
| 5 | History turns the page , and just as the Seventies really begin in 1969 , so the Eighties really start in 1979 . |
| 6 | I still think the culture has a positive potential , being one of the most powerful forms of youth culture and entertainment since punk and even since the Sixties . |
| 7 | On a 1780 base ( =100 ) the real-wage index was 86 in 1793 , and even if the 1801 and 1812 price extremes are excluded ( 55 and 53 ) the average real-wage index for the remaining war years is still only 77.7 compared with 91.2 for 1780 to 1792 . |
| 8 | While accepting the Comintern classification of Latin American agrarian structures as ‘ feudal ’ or semi-feudal , he maintained that what was happening in Latin America was not that capitalism was superseding feudalism , but rather that the two systems tended to coexist . |
| 9 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 10 | There were many more ardent Communists , but ever since the twenties they had been obliged to keep very quiet indeed . |
| 11 | They are supporting several other different users , but clearly if the five hundred pound , which they were anticipating , does n't come to them they are in grave financial difficulties again . |
| 12 | This suggests that this water must have formed before 1986 , but later than the 1960s . |
| 13 | The cinema debate screened on Channel 4 between four film-makers from countries not usually represented on the screen ( India , the Philippines , Lebanon , and Brazil ) , which took place under the auspices of Women Call the Shots , was perhaps especially effective in this way , not only because it called attention to the existence of cinematic traditions outside of the ones we usually view , discuss , and study , but also because the four women film-makers involved in the debate took up such diverse positions . |
| 14 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 15 | Part of this was a hang over from the days of live Television , but even as the Fifties turned into the Sixties , and prerecording came into the limelight , the cost and cumbersome nature of videotape ruled out all but the most rudimentary of editing . |