Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results are similar to those of Heyderman et al , who found that 20 out of 22 primary pancreatic tumours focally or weakly stained for carcinoembryonic antigen . |
| 2 | 8.2 No failure , delay or indulgence on the part of either party to the other in exercising any power or right conferred upon that party in this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of such power or right . |
| 3 | In practice , viewers preferred to wait and see — or rather wait for other people to see — before converting their TV sets to receive the new signal . |
| 4 | Going in to , or rather going up High Street in to High Street from the erm Freemans Way , you know ? |
| 5 | All marched , or rather advanced in small steps , zigzagging as if intoxicated … |
| 6 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 7 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 8 | Overlap in a given situation is more or less tolerated in some societies than in others . |
| 9 | I think I can more or less understand in general terms what happens up until sort of the impressionist time , maybe just post-impressionist . |
| 10 | With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate . |
| 11 | Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma . |
| 12 | A possible explanation is the accumulation of vasoactive substances of splanchnic origin in the systemic circulation that are either metabolised by the normal liver or abnormally released during acute liver failure . |
| 13 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 14 | They are part of the team , albeit a step or so removed from direct involvement . |
| 15 | An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work . |
| 16 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
| 17 | Are they going to be your serviceable everyday sets or only used on special occasions ? |
| 18 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 19 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
| 20 | C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population . |
| 21 | Although the choice of task may , according to this notion , be consciously or unconsciously determined by political factors , the subsequent choice of machine or technique to achieve the task is claimed to remain a politically neutral technical task ’ |
| 22 | Capital equipment ( except in expanding lines like cement ) and , to a large extent , labour employed , remain constant whether or not producing at full capacity . |
| 23 | It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care . |
| 24 | I said vs West Ham that Whelan and Deane we too similar , both looking for the same ball — or not feeding off each other . |
| 25 | Every now and again you 're with somebody who 's putting their foot down and either not anticipating enough or not thinking in enough depth , or they might have an attitude whereby sod it , I 'm just going anyway . |
| 26 | Mr. Richards did not seek to support that view and it is clearly contrary to or not adopted in other writings : see , for example , Francis Mann , Foreign Affairs in English Courts ( 1986 ) ; C. Warbrick , ‘ The New British Policy on Recognition of Governments ’ ( 1981 ) 30 I.C.L.Q. 568 ; and indeed the general tenor of Professor Brownlie 's work itself . |
| 27 | The intrusion of these emotions into a relationship , whether or not related to sexual issues , is responsible for a good many sexual problems which are based on them , not directly but through decline in the quality of the relationship itself . |
| 28 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 29 | The XII Tables — whether or not modelled on Greek legislation — provided Rome with a written constitution of the Greek type . |
| 30 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |