Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary teacher can draw upon many of these to provide a lead in to a topic , or to develop a theme or push forward an enquiry . |
| 2 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 3 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 4 | If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’ |
| 5 | However , on the second , more rigorist , view , her action would turn out to be wrong , should it be true that with even more effort she could have relieved still more suffering , or caused just a little more happiness ( without countervailing harm ) . |
| 6 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 7 | The year is full of changes on the home front , which can imply moving your base of operations or experiencing rather a lot of comings and goings within the family . |
| 8 | However , the court can also still remit or set aside an arbitration award , under s22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , and this continues to be a relatively frequently exercised right . |
| 9 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 10 | In the auction room discretion must be used in bidding and the developer must have a clearly defined policy if the price exceeds the value calculated : he should either withdraw or bid only a marginal percentage above the calculated value . |
| 11 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 12 | Since no outside authority — whether the employers , the journeymen or the union — ever gratified women 's skills with the respect accorded to men 's , women compositors must have found it hard if not impossible to think of themselves as skilled , or to have even a semblance of the mentality of the skilled journeyman and union member . |
| 13 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 14 | ‘ Or does even a temporary steward open no chests ; fold no linen away ? ’ |
| 15 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 16 | Politics is about communicating with and winning a person , not winning an argument or battering home a policy line . |
| 17 | It captured Soyo , a city that produces about a third of Angola 's oil . |
| 18 | In Parliament there was non-cooperation that became almost a guerrilla war between the parties . |
| 19 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 20 | Home : I live between New York , Paris and Germany so it 's difficult to say which is home , but I always have things with me that make even a hotel room feel like home . |
| 21 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 22 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 23 | Use the open item method and show all unpaid invoices individually on your statement rather than bringing forward a single unpaid and undetailed balance from last month . |
| 24 | The cut is therefore the most basic device of SFX , the one that knits together a variety of complicated elements into a unity of effect . |
| 25 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 26 | The haiku poets aimed to condense many meanings into each phrase , so that the poem should speak of something that has both a particular and a general significance . |
| 27 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 28 | The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse . |
| 29 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 30 | In 1976 Rossler [ 23 ] introduced a simpler three-dimensional system that has only a single nonlinear cross-term , zx : ( 2.4 ) unc where a , b and c are constants . |