Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 2 | your dad usually finds he 's taken the same picture two or three times or more or less and |
| 3 | ( 5 ) A licence granted otherwise than at a properly constituted meeting of a licensing board or otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be void . |
| 4 | Patricia added : ‘ I did n't know whether to take a case or not but my solicitor , Rosemary Nelson and barrister Elaine Kelly , were very helpful and supportive . |
| 5 | By virtue of Article iv Rule 5(E) of the Hague-Visby Rules : ‘ Neither the carrier nor the ship shall be entitled to the benefit of the limitation of liability provided for in this paragraph if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of the carrier done with intent to cause damage or recklessly and with knowledge that damage would probably result . ’ |
| 6 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 7 | There is no fixed definition of " controlling interest " and it is usually determined by negotiation , being either 50% or more or 30% . |
| 8 | They then turned to the govt. & only when the govt. took action did situations improve at all . |
| 9 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 10 | The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers . |
| 11 | Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’ |
| 12 | Would the MEB , one dares to ask , have funded the News-on-Sunday or Today and what criteria would it have used to justify its support ? |
| 13 | 1 Common parts The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant ( in common with the Landlord and all other persons having a like right ) to use the Common Parts for all proper purposes in connection with the use and enjoyment of the Premises provided that the Landlord shall not be obliged to keep the malls and other pedestrian ways open [ to the general public ] earlier than [ one hour ] before the Shop Opening Hours or later than [ one hour ] after the Shop Opening Hours It will be for the landlord and the tenant to negotiate shop opening hours at the commencement of the term and which from the tenant 's point of view should be sufficient for the tenant to carry on its normal trade and business . |
| 14 | All necessary costs for the AA to arrange recovery of your vehicle to your home or appointed repairer , if you can not use the vehicle for eight hours or more because of illness and the one and only qualified competent driver , or following accident , breakdown , fire or theft of the vehicle . |
| 15 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 16 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 17 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 18 | But because agriculture has n't been in G A T T or up until recently has n't been in G A T T agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right . |
| 19 | She had n't realised that they were going to breakfast in the suite or even that she would share breakfast with him . |
| 20 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 21 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 22 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 23 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 24 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 25 | It was a wonderful hour or more and later Ian Woosnam called for a knighthood for Jacklin . |
| 26 | It increases the pressure on volunteers and on the phone lines dramatically , because whereas any other sort of information call may take a minute or two , an AIDS call can take half an hour or more because the information may lead into a discussion of the caller 's lifestyle , moral attitudes and emotional needs . |
| 27 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 28 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 29 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 30 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |