Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 We studied cases in which the patient had a fatal aggravation of liver disease during or less than two months after interferon alfa treatment .
2 If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective .
3 However , it is also an area where great failures can occur , despite or perhaps because of the presence of such people .
4 Despite or maybe because of his frequent outbursts he was a good teacher and got results .
5 Although there was a saying that they , was more , there was more Scots in the row of and more than , than , the , than English there was , there was more , more , more eh , than the black .
6 I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin .
7 I thought my boyfriend would make sure that he knew what he was doing , " cos at that time I did n't know what I was letting myself in for and also because he was nineteen I said to myself that he was more responsible .
8 In the period during and immediately after the war feminists were confronted by this changing situation across a whole range of sexual issues : venereal disease , birth-control and , crucially for our argument , sex education .
9 For example , Milic , in his study of Swift 's prose style , confirms Swift 's predilection for clause connectives by comparing his results for a sample of Swift with those for equivalent samples of Addison , Johnson , and Macaulay : Swift 's habit of reinforcing connections between clauses sometimes reaches the extreme of sequences such as and therefore if notwithstanding …
10 That was right through and then once they got it right through , they cut the big chamber then .
11 And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like
12 Now , first of all Nicodemus does n't even understand what Jesus is talking about but even when he does , how he must of hurt his pride , but I 'm religious !
13 Equally if you 've got erm I do n't know what other kinds of differences you might want to erm er look for but again if you 're looking for differences it helps if there 's about sort of twenty people in each of the groups sort of thing .
14 But even with or maybe because of the structure put in place so far ( UX No 418 ) , its still getting that taste of an old-boys network up yonder and wonders where the key visionary , operations , financial analysis and strategy talent is going to come from , or when DEC 's youngbloods are going to get their chance .
15 I mean anybody getting into and deeper than him I 'd be surprised !
16 Partly because there are more males to start with and partly because male foetuses do n't survive as well as female ones , as any erm er erm erm maternity hospital will tell you that deals with very young you know , premature babies .
17 The second set of amendments , which entered into force on April 29 , 1990 , stated that all cargo doors had to be closed and locked before or immediately after the vessel left its berth , and that ships ' masters had to check trim and stability before departure .
18 The choice is yours — you have seven basic exercise types to choose from and more than thirty different formats .
19 This made me remember what had happened before and ever since I have been treating both water and canoes with a good degree of caution and respect .
20 When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says .
21 If the results are similar to or better than those predicted theoretically , the transformation is satisfactory .
22 A reasonable guide will be if it produces results near to or better than those predicted by equation ( 6.3 ) .
23 The SAVE trial enrolled 2231 patients who had suffered myocardial infarction , had ejection fractions equal to or less than 40% , and had no symptoms of heart failure .
24 The SOLVD prevention study included 4220 patients , nearly 80% of whom had history of myocardial infarction , with ejection fractions equal to or less than 35% .
25 Though many issues remain to be resolved , data from the SOLVD prevention and SAVE trials provide compelling evidence that patients recovering from myocardial infarction with asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction ( ejection fraction equal to or less than 40% ) benefit from long term administration of an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor .
26 Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product .
27 If we consider the ten poorest students at Christmas ( i.e. those with marks equal to or less than 40 ) we find an average increase in marks from 33.6 to 43.6 .
28 It says it works in accordance with our normal procedures except and rather than put the exceptions for access in that procedure , .
29 Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public .
30 In addition to the long-term devaluation of the industrial worth of older people ( Walker 1980 ; Phillipson 1982 ) , the last eight years , including the periods leading up to and immediately after the redundancies under study took place , were marked by frequent references to the need for earlier retirement .
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