Example sentences of "[conj] sooner [coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 " . |
| 2 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 3 | We hope that sooner or later the philosophy that classes people as mere units of labour will be consigned to the dustbin of history which it deserves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Agriculture has said that sooner or later the pound will get an easier ride on the currency markets and that cereal farmers , who since Black Wednesday have almost doubled their projected income , must guard against being caught by sudden changes . |
| 6 | ‘ She assumes that sooner or later the body 'll be discovered and there 'll be a hue and cry . |
| 7 | Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly . |
| 8 | Only a classic endures , and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But sooner or later the firm 's demand for investment capital would become so large that this demand could not be met at a fixed cost of capital and r would begin to rise . |
| 13 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 14 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |