Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [be] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed came on for White and did n't seem to have many problems although that 's prob- ably because he did n't touch the ball much . |
| 2 | A plaintiff could proceed by means of the actio iudicati if he wished , although this was available only where the judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 3 | Note that this is possible even if there are a minority of individuals ( perhaps the strongest person in the queue ) who do not benefit . |
| 4 | The fact that this was credible only if the youth was retarded made the moral crux which followed rather pointless . |
| 5 | Although Uzell reckons there are no real dominant players , he divides the competition into four main areas : computer vendors , such as IBM Corp and ICL , which he reckons have the geographical scope and financial muscle to deal with the global demands of systems integration projects , but are unlikely to be independent , are often too hardware-oriented and lack the relevant software expertise ; management consultancies , such as Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse , which he believes do have the necessary business knowledge , but generally lack implementation skills and have little experience of large-scale project management ; telecommunications suppliers , such as AT&T Co and France Telecom , which again he reckons are too hardware-oriented and short of software skills ; and software houses , such as Electronic Data Systems Corp and Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which he recommends for their independence and expertise , but feels that few are international enough or have the necessary financial clout to handle large deals . |
| 6 | Not something to be removed as quickly as possible so that all is decent again and the proper rituals of mourning can begin . |
| 7 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 8 | And that is all there and signed that she done the caravan . |
| 9 | I left you twenty out the erm joint account and that 's all really and |
| 10 | I reckon the best place is Finn Mill , cos that was a lot cleaner , see your river , now cos that 's polluted now and er all you get in the river now is you get flounders or eels , that 's what you get . |
| 11 | And this is possible only if they have control over the processes that convert raw materials to products of value . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the Institute wishes to be seen as a professional body , and this is possible only where entry is restricted by academic qualification . |
| 13 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 14 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 15 | It is true that 8 exemplifies a recurrent semantic contrast , but this is possible only because of the presence of m — in both sentences . |
| 16 | These CDs cost more than the major company ones , but this is fair enough since the higher costs have to be spread over a smaller volume . |
| 17 | It is very doubtful whether the occasional smack meted out against a background of a loving , accepting home , does anyone much harm ; but this is true only if the punishment is not too severe or excessive . |
| 18 | Darwin converted the whole world to evolutionism — but this was possible only because the general idea of evolution could be exploited in so many different ways . |
| 19 | There are , it is true , many points of contact between disciplines , for example , between biology and chemistry , physics and medicine , psychology and sociology , but these are local rather than overall points of contact . |
| 20 | Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently . |
| 21 | It was room 48. 48 was a good number ; not as good as 32 or 64 , but better than , say , 49 , and much better than 47 ( though that was interesting too because it was a prime ) . |
| 22 | The village as such is ordinary perhaps but its setting is sublime , in one of the most pastoral of the cirques or rings of mountains of which there are some dramatic examples in the high Pyrenees ( see Plate 4 ) . |