Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm .
2 The barbotine technique allowed the potters to display these with a fluid eloquence , although the addition of triple tails of imaginative and flamboyant form clearly shows that these creatures were rarely if ever seen by the potters , or the artists who provided their models .
3 The problem was that these developments were largely and necessarily outside the university system .
4 Now why I mean do you think it matters that these things are so that these things are so , that these things which we thought were in , you know private to you , and not available to other people so easily , why do you think it matters that they actually are apparently in return for mo payment , are available to anyone ?
5 The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating .
6 In general , most of these commentaries had concluded that domestic rates were probably as fair and efficient a system as any .
7 Once we have them , our reason considers them and we come to see that wholes are equal to the sum of their parts , or that all numbers are even or odd .
8 Goblins are so weak and vulnerable that small units are all but useless , while the principle of deep ranks and narrow frontage is essential for combat survival .
9 The report said that disturbed children were more than twice as likely to become smokers as other youngsters .
10 Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right .
11 Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success .
12 In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover .
13 Tredworth in green and black hoops were well and truly beaten on the field , but it is what went on off the field , that this cup game will be remembered for .
14 But a number of feminists have suggested that women in many cultures and many situations are partly or even totally excluded from this kind of formal discourse .
15 The adonis blue and silver-skipper butterflies are all but extinct .
16 Quantitatively , the series and parallel impedances are respectively and so that and equation ( 9.17 ) is again inapplicable because inequality ( 9.18 ) can not be satisfied at any frequency .
17 Note the Weberian , and even Nietzschean , notion of a ‘ charisma of creativity ’ implicit here , in which artists , scientists , and religious heroes are more or less interchangeable in the role of prophet .
18 Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE .
19 But those days are well and truly over !
20 So long as these descriptions are more or less correct they should be praised , and everyone 's attention drawn to the most unusual ones .
21 It it 's a group effort as most things are here and er Pat will realize for all the volunteers that come in .
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