Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning the knob left or right rotates the bearing scale . |
| 2 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 3 | A score of seven or less suggests the need for a substantial revision of Goal 3 . |
| 4 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 5 | We have a Prime Minister with un-Thatcherlike understatement , and wily pragmatism and body language of the friendly bank manager next door , or so says an article in today 's Guardian . |
| 6 | Or so says The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook ( Grafton Books , £4.99 ) . |
| 7 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 8 | Certainly a reading of the soil conservation literature through seventy years or so exposes the lack of substantive progress in the identification of the problems and even the technical solutions ( with the possible exception of the demonstration of the importance of rainsplash in soil erosion ) . |
| 9 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 10 | Can you tell me how much I should put aside for the church 's legal fees and , out of interest , where exactly does the money go ? |
| 11 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
| 12 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 13 | It should be noted that an employee will be in breach of his duty of good faith owed to his employer while employed by him if he makes , copies or deliberately memorizes a list of his employer 's customers for use after leaving this employment . |
| 14 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 15 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 16 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs a constable in the execution of his duty , or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty , shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both . ’ |
| 18 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 19 | The first question is whether the FSA expressly or impliedly authorises the modification of the private law rights and duties of customers and firms regulated by SROs or the SIB . |
| 20 | Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people . |
| 21 | Secondly , where the offeror expressly or implicitly waives the need for the acceptance to be communicated to him , the acceptance will take effect when the acceptor does whatever act is necessary to indicate his acceptance . |
| 22 | Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion . |
| 23 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 24 | Essentially , this either bungs the whole output through the effects loop ( good if you 're using EQs , gates or compressors ) or else splits the output in two , sending one half past the effects loop and straight to the power stage ( best , apparently , for when you have a multi-processor in the loop ) . |
| 25 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |
| 26 | A pointer is a simple data type , consisting of an unbounded set of values , which addresses or otherwise indicates the location of a variable of a given type . |
| 27 | A disciple is one who learns from or voluntarily follows a leader . |
| 28 | Whether any intelligence does much good or actually enhances a country 's security is doubtful . |
| 29 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 30 | This is now more than $13m , 20% over budget — this , from a bank that vigorously defends the quality of its development projects . |