Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
| 2 | At those stages , people from outside the House who oppose the legislation as petitioners or hon. Members who might also be opposed to it can seek to improve the Bill and can point out the problems that the proposal might cause . |
| 3 | Course saying in another two or three weeks I 'll maybe not . |
| 4 | The balance will give a datum or basic figure which will generally be turned into a lump sum by taking a certain number of years ' purchase . |
| 5 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 6 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
| 7 | ( 7 ) If the Panel 's decision touches on some novel or important issue it will often publish its findings to serve as guidance to third parties . |
| 8 | Blindcraft provides meaningful employment for blind or disabled people who might otherwise be living on state benefits . |
| 9 | Rather than complete or approximate matches you can also specify conditions using the arithmetic operators = < > and so on . |
| 10 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 11 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |
| 12 | In pantomime or musical comedy they might also be required to appear in production numbers with the rest of the company but true chorus dancers were always kept in the background . |
| 13 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 14 | For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’ |
| 15 | Adopting a paternal tone , however , Justinian went on to point out that in the case of bequests under conditions or uncertain terms it would also be best to refrain from alienation to avoid the possibility of grave expense arising from ensuing eviction . |
| 16 | When you experience distorted vision , bright lights , loss of appetite , nausea , a severe pain in the head or other symptoms you could very well be having a migraine attack . |
| 17 | From 10 or 20 yards you can sometimes force the ball directly into the bank , the first jump taking it almost vertically upwards and landing it softly on the edge of the green . |
| 18 | The bulb must be in good working order and the wiring must be good , i.e. free from any short circuits or bad earths which could adversely affect the lamp , |
| 19 | The religion which he espoused was singularly his own , and when in February 1937 he gave a radio talk on " The Church 's Message to the World " he returned to a subject which was close to the centre of his concerns : the failure of Western civilization , and in particular the signal inability of liberal democracy to sustain moral or intellectual values which might effectively confront the ideologies of fascism or communism . |
| 20 | If your income is higher than this amount you may still receive some help as explained below . |
| 21 | ‘ We hope that this year they will once again put the eggs first and bring a smile to the face of a child less fortunate . ’ |
| 22 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 23 | Even though the individual shopper will often find some functional justification for his or her particular choice , as being especially practical , other reasons , some of which will be analysed in later chapters , may be adduced , relating to social rather than functional considerations which may more convincingly account for the majority of purchases . |
| 24 | That these drugs themselves may actually be adding to that incidence is a disturbing thought . |
| 25 | An impressive set of performances , then , though at a total playing time of less than 57 minutes it should surely have been possible to fit in another item . |
| 26 | It 's like our Albert , he tells that many jokes I can never remember half of what he tells me . |
| 27 | The sharp fall in turnover of the last few years means that many people who might otherwise have entered the housing market currently remain outside it . |
| 28 | Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals . |
| 29 | I have a theory that one day I 'll just be sitting there moving the pencil around and I 'll hit on a brand new character for a strip . |
| 30 | Later on , I ventured to express the hope that one day he would perhaps visit my family in Merstham . |