Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood that , after all the fanfare and ultimatums , it is not going to happen , or at least not for the time being , is another boost for the ‘ rebel ’ general in his lonely defiance of Lebanon 's Muslims — indeed , a good many of its Christians , too — much of the Arab world , and international communities . |
| 2 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 4 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 5 | The following chapters in this book will offer the reader a great deal in the way of possible solutions to very specific issues in the management of schools — this one will not — or at least not in the same focused way . |
| 6 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 7 | She did n't have a clue how to relate to men — or at least not in the way her peers , someone like Mandy , would . |
| 8 | It was wonderful to roll ; that first second push off , sluggish with the anticipation of falling , that moment of tumbling when all was forgotten but frenetic strips of blue light and blades of green in our skin and clothes , and that next to last stretch when we knew we 'd roll forever ( or at least well into the shoulder of the road ) , and that final jolt and halt , nearly violent , as the bottom was reached . |
| 9 | And because we live in an era when all other human relations and values are in crisis , or at least somewhere on a journey towards unknown and uncertain destinations , xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin de siècle . |
| 10 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 11 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 12 | On the riverbank a small army of frogs croaked a hoarse descant to the incessant , high-pitched whine of unseen cicadas and from somewhere far off a bird screamed intermittently as though in agony . |
| 13 | The path then descends to the Pass of Ryvoan and from here back to the Glenmore car park . |
| 14 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 15 | Then they were touching them , and the fierce thrust of his tongue confirmed his spoken answer as his hands moved upward from her hips to the bare skin of her midriff , his fingers trailing fire across her flesh when they travelled round to her back and from there up to the smoothness of her shoulders . |
| 16 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 17 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 18 | Scratching the bottom transfers eggs to fingers and from there back to the mouth , or to others either by direct contact or via food , bedlinen etc . |
| 19 | What dreams are made of … and until now not in the guidebooks . |
| 20 | The regime of the workhouse was deliberately deterrent , and at least up to the 1890s married couples would be forced to live apart within it . |
| 21 | In the mouse egg and at least up to the 16-cell stage all the cells seem equivalent with no fixed fate . |
| 22 | It was played incessantly on the radio and at least once at every dance I went to , and the haunting melody was nearly always in my mind . |
| 23 | 7.7.3 to keep the Premises supplied with such fire fighting equipment as the insurers and the fire authority may require [ or as the Landlord may reasonably require ] and to maintain such equipment to their satisfaction and in efficient working order and at least once in every [ 6 ] months to cause any sprinkler system and other fire fighting equipment to be inspected by a competent person The same argument as above applies with regard to fire fighting equipment . |
| 24 | TENANTS living in council owned sheltered accommodation could be allowed to keep their pets without having to apply for permission on an annual basis.Uttlesford District Council has allowed tenants to keep a pet dog or cat , but until now only on a temporary basis.For the past two years , tenants have had to apply annually for permission to keep a pet under the council 's rules . |
| 25 | Store the boards for at least a few days , ideally in the place where they are to be laid , but at least somewhere with a similar temperature . |
| 26 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |