Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counteract the possibility of discrimination by the EEC should it be able to establish a common external tariff , the other OEEC states would need to accept a lowering of or even an end to their tariffs , providing the Six would waive their common external tariff on goods coming from the rest of the OEEC . |
| 2 | This should have resulted in an ex-rights price of and therefore a value for each right of 227p - 190p=37p . |
| 3 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 4 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 5 | as if only a god could be told |
| 6 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them . |
| 8 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 9 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 10 | I 'm also looking forward to seeing a copy of the election manifesto on which he fights those elections and er er how it will be possible for the Conservative party to er put forward a manifesto that he is comfortable with and also a manifest that the honourable member for say Old Bexley and Sidcup is similarly comfortable with but er no doubt that 's a matter for the Conservative party . |
| 11 | Clear broth , rest , exercise and milk to begin with and maybe a tonic . |
| 12 | You have Cards 1 , 2 and 3 to start with and quite a few variations on those cards are possible , from arranging different numbers of zig-zag changes between the holes to trying out different yarns and stripes . |
| 13 | Because it 's been that long keeping an eye on them that they could be supplying half the business on our time with and then a hundred per cent the rest of the time . |
| 14 | Poland , for instance , unlike Russia , was a participant in and indeed an important contributor to the great movements in early modern European history , such as the Renaissance and the scientific revolution , and the country 's legal system , literary forms and religious faith aligned it firmly with the liberal West rather than the more authoritarian East . |
| 15 | These authors postulate that in as yet an unexplained way it is the accumulation of these lipid-laden foam cells in the sub-endothelium that damage the endothelium , thus allowing the subsequent developments in the formation of the atheromatous plaque to proceed . |
| 16 | It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy . |
| 17 | Although the sciences had begun to develop in English universities in the nineteenth century ( following Scottish innovations ) , it is probably fair to say that the dominant culture of the universities was founded on the humanities up to and even a little beyond the Second World War . |
| 18 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 19 | The lights came back on and then a thud overhead made them all jump . |
| 20 | We thus have an apparent paradox : a modern stock-exchange law without a stock exchange , but an established banking system without as yet a modern banking law . |
| 21 | Erm the cost of capital costs of of signing er will also be looked at and then a further report from the subcommittee to the council . |
| 22 | Well weeks went by and then a a a few weeks after she came to me and she said , . |