Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domination and usurpation of sovereignty are not democratic ; true democracy consists in the exercise of personal sovereignty directly , or through rigidly mandated delegates : in short , the only just government is one which is non-representative . |
| 2 | A few groups from the United States have reported some success in short term cultures of either normal human gall bladder cells or with well differentiated gall bladder adenocarcinoma lines . |
| 3 | will the work be done with an existing installation or with specially built apparatus ? |
| 4 | plan to check the words where you have a question mark against words in other suitable lists , either lists still to be checked , or in already established lists . |
| 5 | Perhaps more commonly , animals may become trapped , for instance in a pitfall trap in a cave or in naturally occurring holes . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , despite these problems there will be growth in synfuels production through to the end of the century and beyond with most of the growth resulting from new projects supported by governments or from already established programmes . |
| 7 | Such calculations encouraged the substitution ( at least in Cuba ) of slaves not so much by free labour as by indentured labour , from among the Maya Indians of Yucatan , victims of the Race War ( see chapter 7 above ) or from newly opened China . |
| 8 | Decisions are issued by either the Commission or the Council of Ministers : they derive directly from the authority given to them by the Treaty of Rome or from previously issued directives or regulations , and they too are binding upon the governments to which they are addressed . |
| 9 | These authors presented pairs of faces to one or other visual field and required their subjects to match the faces either to each other or to previously presented faces . |
| 10 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 11 | A few concerts were organised in connection with national holidays — for example on railworkers day or at officially sanctioned Youth parties . |
| 12 | may be sufficient to persuade the defendant to pay up , or at least make proposals to pay by substantial instalments . |
| 13 | An interesting recent suggestion is that ITN and TV-AM ( currently non-ITN serviced ) should merge , or at least take stakes in each other . |
| 14 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 15 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 16 | It seems a reasonable conjecture that , if he had known about the decree , he would have acted on it , or at least given reasons for not acting on it . |
| 17 | In particular the lay movement , seeing the ill-life of some priests and the increasing grandeur of the Church , sought to insist on chastity , abstention from luxury and avoidance of meat-eating , and aspired to renounce property , or at least to hold goods in common . |
| 18 | Major steps in the transaction may require to be evidenced in the board minutes or at least written instruction to be received by the Firm ; and |
| 19 | After all , a plant that was doing badly in the Amazon may well do well elsewhere , or at least contain genes that would be useful in other environments . |
| 20 | With almost every tournament director and the leading management companies either firmly opposing them or at least advising caution and most of their leading players apparently having doubts , a climbdown was already inevitable . |
| 21 | So why did n't they do away with it altogether , or at least bury thing . ’ |
| 22 | Eventually , an understanding of neurotransmitters , receptors , G-proteins and second messengers might allow pleasure and addiction to be decoupled — or at least allow withdrawal to be suppressed . |
| 23 | First , children might refrain from reporting or at least giving evidence if they know that a substantial prison sentence for a member of their family is the probable outcome . |
| 24 | But at the same time the Party could argue that it was attempting to equalize things or at least limit inequalities in the sense that , that , that the tax rates were . |
| 25 | Probably both are true in conditions of underdevelopment , or at least bear investigation as hypotheses . |
| 26 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 27 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 28 | Their report in The Lancet said : ‘ Infertile women should stop or at least reduce smoking . ’ |
| 29 | IT IS about as impenetrable as any dispute in the European Community can get , but it threatens either to seriously weaken the edifice of ‘ Project 1992 ’ or at least to bury businessmen under a landslide of new paperwork . |
| 30 | We immediately notified the Department of Trade that Mohamed Fayed 's representations were incorrect , and gave what information we had at the time , which was sufficient to alarm , or at least give pause for basic investigations . |