Example sentences of "sooner or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having flagged the issue and fired the interest of the minister , the Bank duo returned to the cooler , more workman-like atmosphere of life in Nairobi almost certain that sooner or later a project would go to the Bank board , and that it would almost certainly be approved . |
| 2 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 3 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 4 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 5 | Sooner or later a woman will show her true nature . |
| 6 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 7 | Even I was pelted with a couple of little pointed things from the TV Times and was heard to admit that ‘ awards are like haemorrhoids — sooner or later every bum gets one ’ . |
| 8 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 9 | If you do that , he wrote , then sooner or later the will will crack and the truth will emerge , reality will re-assert itself . |
| 10 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 11 | However unless birth control methods are used , sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant . |
| 12 | Then , sooner or later the ‘ Greedy League ’ will realise what an asset they have lost . |
| 13 | Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out . |
| 14 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 15 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 16 | Sooner or later the diaries are published , and another military reputation is destroyed . ’ |
| 17 | Sooner or later The Course of Time it 'll |
| 18 | Sooner or later the cat will win and wear down its owner 's resolve . |
| 19 | Charlemagne 's throne , which may still be seen in the basilica at Aachen , gave all the kings of western Europe sooner or later the idea of regarding a throne as an essential symbol of royal greatness . |
| 20 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 21 | Just as linotype operators at the Sun were breaking out the champagne to celebrate the arrival of £1,000 pay packets for a three-day week , the realization was beginning to dawn that sooner or later the power of the print unions would be broken by the introduction of new technology . |
| 22 | The cells are continuously dying and unless new cells are created , sooner or later the whole thing will collapse and disappear . |
| 23 | Sooner or later the political balance , too , must be redressed to the disadvantage of the countryside . |
| 24 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 25 | It was only to be expected that sooner or later the Collector 's sense of duty would reassert itself . |
| 26 | I realized that sooner or later the immense resources of the Reichmann family would be used to cover all traces of the past . |
| 27 | Sooner or later the predator will end up feeding preferentially on the most abundant of the available types of prey . |
| 28 | ‘ She assumes that sooner or later the body 'll be discovered and there 'll be a hue and cry . |
| 29 | He fears , indeed knows , that sooner or later the police will be sent to collect him . |
| 30 | No matter what settlement is reached , if either republic , particularly Serbia , feels that it has been unfairly treated , any ceasefire will be temporary , and sooner or later the matter will rise again . |