Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is also an area where great failures can occur , despite or perhaps because of the presence of such people . |
| 2 | Mr Morrison looked instantly distraught , possibly because of the air which whistled down George 's nostrils as he gasped in horror , or perhaps because of the children who were ferreting down the sides and back for valuables . |
| 3 | Despite , or perhaps because of the hardship they face , the women have a strong sense of community . |
| 4 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
| 5 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 6 | Over the summer certification period the turnaround on RETs may increase by a week or so because of the very high numbers of candidates seeking certification . |
| 7 | When Dot began to cry she was n't sure if it was because of thinking about poor Mr Brown 's two missing fingers or because she could n't remember what her father 's face looked like , or merely because of the alarming new orders about train departures cackling from the loudspeakers . |
| 8 | Delays or frustrations are indicated as November gets underway , so keep your options open until the Full Moon on the 10th — or preferably until after the Sun conjuncts Pluto on the 14th — when plans , contracts or important arrangements will be confirmed . |
| 9 | This was overturned on appeal where Lord Denning held : " … a buyer should realise that , when he buys a second-hand car , defects may appear sooner or later and in the absence of an express warranty , he has no redress … " ( p755 ) . |
| 10 | In this kind of model , real output is volatile , occasionally reaching the ceiling or floor , with each successive random disturbance pushing real income upwards or downwards and with the underlying stabilising influences of the multiplier and accelerator . |
| 11 | A person should not join the team out of duty or obligation or persuasion from leadership , or solely because of the location of their home , unless they have faith that it is from God . |
| 12 | The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder against loss of or damage to any Caravan described in the Schedule its Equipment and Contents ( other than Personal Effects ) while therein or thereon or in the immediate vicinity thereof . |
| 13 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 14 | And thirdly the inducement in some countries for employers to federate was as a result of actual or threatened state intervention in the employment relationship , or sometimes because of the growing complexities of the legislative framework under which employers had to operate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They submitted that the commissioner had no jurisdiction to adjudicate on the status of the road verges generally or otherwise than for the limited purpose of deciding what entries should be contained in the register . |
| 17 | It seems to me that ultimately artists must be successful or otherwise because of the public response to their output . |
| 18 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 19 | In Scotland , while the stamp duty change will benefit more homeowners than elsewhere because of the lower property prices , the change in tax relief will be a hindrance because mortgages tend to be lower . |
| 20 | Despite the pain , he rode better and harder than ever and in the last five races stood on the podium four times and came within 12 seconds of his first GP win . |
| 21 | I say that now but at the time I took my task extremely seriously and I swelled with pride when Mr Broadhurst took me back to Churchill Square to buy my second book . |
| 22 | She knows that now because of the uncomfortable gap between her budgeted sales and her turnover . |
| 23 | So I wo n't start that immediately but during the lecture we 'll start to build that up . |
| 24 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 25 | By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies . |
| 26 | The FMLN command argue that cooperative production is vital , so as to develop a more self-sufficient economy within the zones and so that after the victory , the national economy will have a working base on which to build . |
| 27 | It 's an imaginary fox , yes and so when at the very end of the poem he says when he says the window is starless still the clock ticks the page is printed . |
| 28 | Umbilical hose systems sound expensive , if only because of the long sections of pipe needed . |
| 29 | In open country , birds are easy targets for predators , and many authors have argued that flocking increases the likelihood of an individual 's survival in the event of an attack , if only because of the cover provided by its fellows ( Vine 1971 ; Hamilton 1971a ) . |
| 30 | And the pressures are probably much greater within the public sector , if only because of the difficulty of obtaining further employment in the public sector if one has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons . |