Example sentences of "[conj] sooner [conj] [adv] a " 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 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |