Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law therefore allows the offence to be treated just as seriously as rape , and we have seen how some would argue that it should be included as a form of rape , or at least as a form of the most serious offence of sexual assault , in any reformed law . |
| 2 | In one case " attainment of a norm " will mean style borrowing : the approximation to some external norm as a " disguise " or at least as a point of reference . |
| 3 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 4 | Some historians have seen St Pirmin 's monastic foundations ( the most famous at Reichenau ) , by which Pirmin made an important contribution to the Christianization of the south-west German world in the first half of the eighth century , as an attack upon Boniface 's episcopal authority among the Germans , or at least as the creation of a counter-sphere of influence . |
| 5 | Such a course can then remain relatively isolated , or at least on a par with other courses offered within the same institution on a more traditional basis , or act as a focus for further course development ( through the processes of ‘ accretion ’ or ‘ invention discussed in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 6 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |
| 7 | In any case , with Muslim extremists threatening to dominate the region , the Western world needed Syria either in its camp or at least on the sidelines . |
| 8 | ‘ And she 's adapted to spending seven months virtually imprisoned in bed , or at least on the couch … |
| 9 | Yes , I would have thought this would happen soon , or at least on the bench . |
| 10 | Ideally consultation with advisory or special teachers should be started before a pupil is accepted into the class , or at least at the very beginning of term , so that the provision of special equipment and materials can be organised . |
| 11 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 12 | They are fun or their readers or audience and offer a chance to win something for nothing or at least for a very slight effort . |
| 13 | The first was the pressure for independence or at least for a measure of internal self-government in India . |
| 14 | It will go forever — or at least for a century . |
| 15 | Only the France of the Sun King could afford the luxury of overseas development for its own sake , or at least for the sake of a distant and ill-defined future . |
| 16 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 17 | She immediately saw the sense in these remarks and abandoned for ever ( or at least for the time being ) the view that the reluctance of the Church to ordain women revealed it as bigoted and unfair . |
| 18 | Clues to the exact build quality on a guitar such as this lay within , which is a tall order for the humble reviewer , but by hook or by crook — or at least with a simple mirror — all is revealed . |
| 19 | It still has to be used full screen , or at least with a fixed window size . |
| 20 | It happened by accident , or at least with no intent at all on his pan . |
| 21 | She had an approved menstrual calendar and knew it was more or less — or at least with an acceptable risk factor — her safe time of the month . |
| 22 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 23 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |
| 24 | But Bolinger also believes that there is a correlation with syntax , or at least with the facts of surface syntactic form . |
| 25 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 26 | At the same time , by not forcing the text to fit the categories of the model , the text can be seen as a transformation of it , or at least of a part of it . |
| 27 | A brother of this house , or at least of the Benedictine Order . |
| 28 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 29 | Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services . |
| 30 | Nations , and perhaps humanity itself , would then be seen to owe their survival to their follies , or at least to an appropriate dilution of rationality with pretence and self-deception . |