Example sentences of "and [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic . |
| 2 | Now it was time to relax , to unburden themselves , and where better than here where symmetry and disorder , artistry and chance , met in such perfect balance ? |
| 3 | Siemens Nixdorf is in as bad a way as IBM , and only a couple of years behind Bull , and that simply because the German public sector still has n't realised it 's crazy to pay $50,000 or more per MIPS for computing power . |
| 4 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 5 | So , equally obviously , the question becomes , what disruption to normal regulation would be caused by recognizing the change , always bearing in mind the rarity of the situation , and that even if some disruption were shown , it might not be sufficiently serious to warrant withholding recognition ? |
| 6 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 7 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 8 | I was told that the outcome of the election would have no effect on either the funding or the speed with which a bed could be found , and that even if a Labour government dismantled the existing system there would be no adverse consequences for my sister . |
| 9 | And that even if my own son ca n't read , speak French or identify Mozart concertos , he can nearly walk and he 's brilliant at heading a ball . |
| 10 | In recent years , despondently , they have concluded ‘ that questions about what the sampo was can never be satisfactorily answered and that even if they could , an answer would probably make little contribution to the understanding of the poems ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ When I went into labour I was told there was no heartbeat and that even if she was born alive , which was unlikely , she was too early and small to survive . |
| 12 | On the first count , Parker tries to argue simultaneously that downsizing is a mirage and that even if it is n't a mirage then uses will see through the hype pretty soon . |
| 13 | I have no evidence one way or another as to the extent of risk of an episode occurring within five weeks but realism and commonsense tell me that there is a reasonable possibility that it will not and that even if he does unfortunately suffer such a trauma , he will if his life has to be preserved by artificial means , recover sufficiently for a decision at the main hearing as to further mechanical ventilation for the future . |
| 14 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 15 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 16 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 17 | But , let me say by way of rejoinder , there is no necessary reason why things should not come about the other way round — with the personality regression preceding the growth in power of the state — and that even if this is a functional , rather than causal , relationship , it is nevertheless a significant one . |
| 18 | Mr Hurd said the position had now changed and that even if the amendment was carried , it ‘ would be no impediment to ratification ’ . |
| 19 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 20 | The main findings were that the continuations were judged less acceptable when the pronoun 's antecedent was introduced by the verb ( 54 versus 92% ) and that even when the continuations were judged to be acceptable the judgements were made more slowly ( 2281 versus 1871 ms ) . |
| 21 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 22 | We have already seen that there is an argument which says that market controls deter abuse and that even when abuse does occur it might not be efficient to stamp it out . |
| 23 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 24 | Rather , it is to emphasise that their members are in general uninformed about it ; and that even where they are not uninformed , they are for the most part unversed in it . |
| 25 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 26 | To disarm reluctant government ministers , the transnationals pointed out that there were other vast reserves in South America , Mexico , and Alaska , and that rather than find themselves restricted with petty regulations they would prefer to spend vast amounts on exploratory research elsewhere . |
| 27 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 28 | It would thus appear that low usage was not problematic and that rather than seeking to make improvements , user instruction was the best alternative . |
| 29 | The choices are both a reflection of his inner confusion , and a statement of his determination to let his curiosity run wherever it would - and that long before ‘ mixed ’ courses were popular . |
| 30 | I would say that three months is about the maximum , and that long before this period is up the confection , like a fresh fruit sorbet stored in the deep freeze , has lost its exquisite flavour and the edge has gone from the sharp scent . |