Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If British Rail is under pressure to increase the frequency of its service , there is a case for a coordinated transport system operating bus and rail services , If there is a need for transport when it is not convenient to run rail services , or if only a certain number of trains can run on a line because goods trains and passenger services can not operate at the same time — although perhaps British Rail should be more innovative in its mix of passenger and freight services perhaps it is a good idea for British Rail and the bus services — as they are today , not as they will be affected by the Bill — to get together . |
| 2 | And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser , they might have them they sometimes have bits and |
| 3 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 4 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 5 | She said she was very impressed by staffing levels at the hospital and that even a local surgery had computer equipment . |
| 6 | From Woolworths , we will hear that the Dixons management have brought their troubles on themselves , that their attempts to cope with the downturn have been lamentable and that only a new team — with a more analytical approach than the pile-it-high philosophy which did Dixons so proud when times were good — can engineer the necessary closure of small high street outlets in favour of a move to larger ones on the edge of town . |
| 7 | In the case of the incubator thesis , there is evidence ( certainly from London — Nicholson , Brinkley and Evans , 1981 ) that few sections of industry seek out inner-urban locations , and that only a small number of companies migrate outwards in the classical fashion . |
| 8 | Over 100 environmental groups , representing interests as diverse as the World Wide Fund for Nature , Earth First , the Women 's Environment Network and the ( N. American ) Algonquin Nation , agreed that present logging practises were wholly unsustainable , and that only a significant reduction in the consumption of pulp , paper and timber products would create conditions for a shift to sustainable forestry . |
| 9 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 10 | We may argue that temperate animals and plants must ‘ concentrate ’ on coping with winter , and that only a few manage to do so ; or that because life is so seasonal , temperate animals and plants are thrown into greater competition at specific times of year , than in the tropics . |
| 11 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 12 | Many other sites as well as Rollright have been monitored and the general conclusion so far is that there are radiation anomalies but they vary over time and that only an intensive continuous study at a site is likely to reveal the pattern . |
| 13 | And if now a whole institution , as Wolverhampton Polytechnic has done and Essex Institute well might , resolves to modularise its whole course provision , it starts with a portfolio of courses which looks virtually complete . |
| 14 | Ah ah , and and also a good problem solver as well . |
| 15 | And and nearly a hundred years later , ninety years later , this was begun here . |
| 16 | Such an attitude , though unfavourable to the concept of a universal church , could be of great benefit to cathedrals , monasteries , and parish churches , because it provided them with protectors , and because often a high standard of religious observance could be stimulated by family pride . |
| 17 | And because only a small amount of Gel absorbs a large amount of shock , low profile mid-soles can be used with no loss of cushioning . |
| 18 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 19 | And whereas neither a first-rate performance of a symphony nor a miserable one will change what the composer wrote , the performance of a business continually creates new and different scores against which its performance is assessed . |
| 20 | And after just a few minutes the cold was starting to get through . |
| 21 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 22 | But these were rare occurrences , and when later a longstanding relationship developed it brought frustration and irritation rather than contentment . ’ |
| 23 | But because only a small part of the mutation load is likely to be due to alleles with major effects , this gives little error . |
| 24 | But since only a limited amount could be achieved within the overloaded RHA capital programme , it was decided to select two for a closure programme within the strategic planning period ( 1983 to 1993 ) . |
| 25 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 26 | But as only a small percentage of the US tuna fleet captures dolphins , Boxer argues that her Bill will actually give US tuna processors a competitive advantage in the US market , because foreign fleets are more likely to use methods harmful to dolphins . |