Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Darkfalls occur regularly on or near the same locality .
2 All the offences happened on or near the same two footbridges on the Fishermead estate .
3 ‘ Reserve stock , describes a closed access part of a library located in or near the same building as the open access collections .
4 We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves .
5 Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills .
6 It certainly has a bearing , er it , it has a bearing in two directions , it causes price increases and cost increases at the same time for the producers , so that at the same time as there are price increases , increasing inflation , there is a reduction in production .
7 A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness .
8 She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places …
9 If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams .
10 The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’
11 Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well .
12 For seventeen years Father Conlin had been closely involved in the educational provision of the Diocese , a far from easy task but one in which he achieved much and at the same time earned the respect and affection of Clergy , Governors and Teachers .
13 " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia .
14 The paper dated 15 February 1983 before the works committee which resolved on that date to grant permission , contains a reference to the number of lorries anticipated at the Gillingham Gate daily and under the same heading ‘ Traffic-Safety and Freeflow ’ has a different entry from the one I have referred to .
15 I asked if I could see the people who 'd brought me in and after a few minutes , Bunny and Rayleen appeared at the bedside .
16 Four months in France had quietened her down and at the same time given her a veneer of sophistication quite lacking before .
17 I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing .
18 Growth in export markets has slowed down and at the same time new malting capacity has come on stream leading to a very competitive market place .
19 Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry .
20 I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’
21 In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' :
22 ‘ Well , we can do something about that straightaway and at the same time keep you under observation .
23 On Dec. 7 Hu Jintao replaced Wu Jinghua as regional secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , apparently because of the latter 's failure to dampen the persistent Tibetan nationalist unrest .
24 In what he called ‘ a new architecture for a new era ’ , Mr Baker outlined closer co-operation between Western Europe and the US which would bind the West closer together while at the same time ‘ opening up the doors to the East ’ .
25 As previously described , " state dependent learning " occurs when the brain will repeat learned functions only when in the same " drugged " state as when the subject matter or practical activity was first learnt .
26 But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time .
27 After a flight to the west , meetings should take place in the morning by new local time rather than in the latter part of the day .
28 Predictably , they came up with a plot-line set in the professional reaches of the law , rather than in the more ‘ artisan ’ area of policing .
29 It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract .
30 At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over .
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