Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [be] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an undeniable fact that that is so and that will obviously benefit the economy if they come and they will feel a draught if they do n't come . |
| 2 | So the sum has to be one , times a half , is greater than two , which it clearly is n't , cos one times a half is a half , and that is less than two . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 4 | And that 's only cos last twice I 've thinked of it . |
| 5 | Notice that an incoming elasticity is less than unity , and that 's less than one , as a result textiles , textile industry in the Netherlands is going to be a declining sector in the economy , right , as incomes er per capita G D P rises , the textile sector will benefit , alright , because , because human demand for textiles either they 're demanding proportionately less of any increases in incomes . |
| 6 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 7 | The previous report of copper concentrations in gastric juice represents a fivefold overestimate : we found low concentrations only ( mean=1.2 n> M and this is probably because most plasma copper ( ca 80–90% is tightly bound to the plasma protein caeruloplasmin . |
| 8 | In the beg , er and this is very cos that 's exactly what the , Nadine said to me . |
| 9 | The railway boom in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s was more than national : it formed the basis for vast projects of British railway construction abroad and the expansion of overseas lending to finance railway enterprises . |
| 10 | ‘ But that 's less than three months away ! |
| 11 | I used always to look fabulous , but that was then and this is now . |
| 12 | But that was more than half his lifetime ago . |
| 13 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 14 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 15 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 16 | After the summer of 1921 the Anti-Waste threat receded , but this was largely because Unionist candidates were now on the bandwagon with them , demanding cuts as loudly as anyone . |
| 17 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |