Example sentences of "of [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 2 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 3 | Most spectacular of all were Burlamachi 's services as a sort of unofficial paymaster , notably of English and English-financed expeditions abroad , which provided the occasion for a multitude of ways and means advances in anticipation of slowly and irregularly mobilized government funds . |
| 4 | I notice also that the president of the chambers of commerce said that British industry and commerce were on ’ an improving trend of slowly and steadily climbing out of the recession ’ . |
| 5 | The report itself says : ’ an improving trend of slowly and steadily climbing out of the recession . ’ |
| 6 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 7 | But can you think of anyone who stands out as being somebody who really does their bit and yet does it possibly with humility or erm I 'm thinking of rather than saying sort of a general terminology of sort of Prime Ministers or what have you , erm I 'm thinking if you can think of a a particular person ? |
| 8 | And if you quoted the earnings as opposed to some of these undertakings or districts , erm then there was a wide gap you know er which we felt the benefit of rather than the reverse . |
| 9 | represents the ‘ strong ’ unemployment trap where individuals are financially better off out of rather than in work . |
| 10 | Where and actually sort of rather than saying this is our manifesto and you know our policy promises it 's lacking excitement on our general policy . |
| 11 | Most of the fossils recovered are of wholly or partly aquatic amphibians , the sort that were easily preserved in the coal swamps that were characteristic of the Carboniferous non-marine environment . |
| 12 | Both of these curriculum initiatives are associated with trying to increase the component of industrially and vocationally relevant education taking place in schools . |
| 13 | Why was it every year ended sort of optimistically and every year we expected to go back up ? |
| 14 | An evangelical of great piety and a man of gentle character and inflexible integrity , Johnson was charged with a mission beyond the powers of most because he was to be custodian of the morals of the infant settlement but he had also to conform to the pragmatism of Arthur Phillip [ q.v. ] , the first governor of New South Wales . |
| 15 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 16 | It needs to be on the agenda , both formal and informal , of most if not all staffrooms . |
| 17 | A paternalistic concern for the well-being of the nation has been a feature of most if not all monarchs and has been associated with a particular and often predominant tradition within the Conservative party . |
| 18 | But for some it only lasts until they reach the office — 31% felt that their work was not taken care of properly while they were away . |
| 19 | If it is required to cytogenetically demonstrate the activity or otherwise of paternally or maternally derived X chromosomes in cells of fetal origin , the first requirement is to mark one of them so that it can be distinguished from the other one . |
| 20 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 21 | Much of the detailed research that has made use of the concept of structured dependency has , however , focused on the relatively small and exceptional subgroup of elderly people living in institutions , for whom the concept of dependency seems more immediately relevant , and this may have biased the outlook of social policy analysts in their discussion of the much larger group of economically and socially independent elderly . |
| 22 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 23 | Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders . |
| 24 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 25 | Mounds of englacially and sub-glacially deposited sand and gravel ( middle ground , right ) mark the position of a stillstand during the retreat of the ice . |
| 26 | For example , separate decisions need to be taken in relation to : ( 1 ) VAT registrationwhere , if the partners of the new office are not to be the same as those carrying on business at headquarters , separate registration will be required ; ( 2 ) preparation of accountswhere if separate accounts for each office are kept , with separate accounting dates ( which is a matter to be settled between the partners and the firm 's accountants and involves no breach of professional conduct whichever decision may be taken ) , accountants ' reports will have to be produced in respect of each office ; ( 3 ) identity of the partnerswhether the new office should be run as a separate partnership or as a branch office ; ( 4 ) investment business certificatesseparate certificates will be needed if there is not an identity of partners at all a firm 's offices . |
| 27 | Er I 'm going to step , sorry before I go into a bit more detail in your C on your er application form , three things will be decided here today Ron and that 's first of all whether you and I think that er is a lau a launch pad for you to earn erm er some good money |
| 28 | Well first of all whether the the whole environment of selling advertising appeals . |
| 29 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 30 | First of all as I said , we 'd like to go through a vehicle check before we go out . |