Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] it [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
| 2 | When you pull this out and it goes the next time start it turn it over , rewind it to the front . |
| 3 | It is not clear however whether it has a neuronal-specific regulatory role , because the data obtained in non neuronal cells were obtained by transient transfections in cells that do not show any hypersensitive sites in this region of the promoter of the endogenous NF-L gene . |
| 4 | The central union federation ( the LO ) is also very strong largely because it plays a significant and continuing role in collective bargaining . |
| 5 | If after a bite or sting the conscious level is impaired or if swelling is severe and rapid especially if it affects the mouth and throat or if breathing becomes difficult . |
| 6 | It is the extraordinary manner in which the pathological imagery has simply been inverted so that it forms the basis of a pastoral view which asserts the strength and durability of black family life and , in present circumstances , retreats from confronting the difficult issues which result in black children arriving in care in the first place . |
| 7 | For a start the required reduction in the price level may have to be very large indeed before it has a significant impact on aggregate spending . |
| 8 | Be quite firm so that it forms a solid chocolate loaf in the tin , but do try not to break the biscuit . |
| 9 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |
| 10 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 11 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 12 | There is the Government 's view , which seems to see a large market as an end in itself , and there is the view expressed by my right hon. Friend , which sees a large market as successful only if it improves the quality of life of our citizens . |
| 13 | What research does is to reformulate the familiar so that it assumes a new significance . |
| 14 | I want our house valued now well not just yet , we want the garden finished first not that it matters a lot . |
| 15 | Wordsworth 's poem could well be set as in Example 47 : Of course , this kind of writing can be highly poetic , but there is also a danger of falling into aimless meandering , or of not being memorable precisely because it has no metrical background . |
| 16 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 17 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 18 | On some days the smoke is so thick here that it obscures the sun . |
| 19 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 20 | A building lease for a term of more than forty years , where the lessor is not a public body , is freely assignable even if it contains a qualified covenant against alienation ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , s19(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 21 | The Histories is particularly relevant today because it represents the common discursive origin of historiography , sociology , anthropology , ethnography , and prose fiction . |
| 22 | In-service training is desirable only when it fulfils a felt need . |
| 23 | A cat inhibits the desire to chase the bird until it is ready so that it has the highest chance of success . |