Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This is logical also on the grounds that the remedies were proved as the single remedy and not as mixtures , and mixtures of remedies may have effects which are different from those of their component parts .
2 Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures .
3 I know , three little ducks swimming three little ducks , swimming , three little ducks , swimming , go to the pond and round and back , no I , hold a , hold on to my hands , hold on to my hands Ant hold on to my hands , you sing row , row the , row the boat gently down the stream by our self .
4 Even if it were true that all of consciousness and only that fell under statements of the three kinds , or related kinds , we would by means of this truth get only a wholly uninformative conception of consciousness .
5 The waterlogged heaps of wet muck soon became unstable and eventually began to slide downwards , quite suddenly becoming semi-liquid slurries or mudflows , which swept down the sides of the volcano , gathering speed and more and more material the whole time .
6 In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really .
7 Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister .
8 Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ duress on the part of the revenue ’ is important because the duress with which the law is concerned is that exerted by the defendant and not that exerted by extraneous circumstances such as general commercial considerations .
9 On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round .
10 The Bougainville conflict [ see above ] affected the country 's economy adversely , as the giant Panguna copper mine , which had previously provided about 17 per cent of national revenue and more than 40 per cent of foreign exchange earnings , remained closed .
11 Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room .
12 Sometimes I used to see the funny side of these sessions , but he was not one to tolerate flippancy and more than once I received the rough side of his tongue .
13 It 's partly because I 'm so lonely , it 's partly deliberate ( I want to make him relax , both for his own good and so that one day he may make a mistake ) , so it 's part weakness , and part cunning , and part charity .
14 Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz .
15 To do all the things whether you feel like it or not , oh no , I usually take a back seat and then when it 's , I 'm .
16 People will be interviewed at the time of taking a photograph and later after they have seen the results in order to ascertain just what they think they have ‘ captured ’ photographically .
17 He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better .
18 This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record .
19 Work down the neck and over and across shoulders , continuing until you feel a pleasant warm glow all over .
20 Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's .
21 I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated .
22 That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement .
23 Now if they increase their output alright that will displace imports alright , so protectionism leads to self sufficiency and by and large self sufficiency is protectionism 's raison d'etre , that 's why it 's there right it 's to increase domestic output of this particular product .
24 There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea .
25 Treatment Centres take the sufferers through the first five steps of the recovery programme in as many weeks in order to lessen their dread in anticipation in the future and not because they believe that it is really possible to recover at that speed .
26 What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future .
27 If a patient has lost much weight and particularly if underweight , then a good case can be made for commencing insulin .
28 oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through .
29 The maximum penalty for child neglect is now ten years ' imprisonment , which should be sufficient to deal with cases involving considerable fault and actually or potentially serious consequences .
30 of having a vote and so and so gets no
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