Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the restrictions arise in a two-equation model ( rather than the single equation we considered before ) , we now require a method of summarizing the variation in both equation errors so that we can compare an unrestricted with a restricted model . |
| 2 | For the 1984 exercise it was decided to involve course organisers in the collection of information , so that they would have an improved awareness of what their own students were doing after course completion . |
| 3 | The alternative strategy is to inform patients whether a given method of diagnosis or treatment has been properly tested for efficacy so that they can make an informed choice . |
| 4 | One very important thing for older people living alone is to let friends and neighbours know that they are ill , so that they can keep an eye on them and obviously you know , do the shopping and bring in any , anything that they might need . |
| 5 | And lastly , when we reached Magdalen Bridge , Dennis insisted on coming alongside so that he could visit an off-licence at the Plain and buy a bottle of champagne , the sale being recorded in his credit card records . |
| 6 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 7 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 8 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 9 | The High Elf Army list has been designed so that you can choose an army to a previously fixed points value . |
| 10 | The Orc and Goblin Army list has been designed so that you can choose an army to a points value agreed by you and your opponent . |
| 11 | The Empire army list has been designed so that you can choose an army to a previously fixed points value . |
| 12 | You can cover yourself for certain kinds of private medical treatment , including hospital stays , and you can cover yourself so that you will receive an income if you should fall sick and not be able to work . |
| 13 | I even hoped that damned cat would find his way back so that I 'd have an excuse to ring you . " |
| 14 | The Lea & Perrins box this time , where Serafin sat , so that I can keep an eye on Summerchild . |
| 15 | Combinations of consonants , vowels and spaces are stored in memory and compared with what has been typed into the machine , so that it can make an identification . |
| 16 | Chair , erm , every year we try and hold er , an event or something of interest to the local business community , to local industries , and we have contacts with local freight-forwarders , banks and companies that have exported , embassies , and we 're proposing that we erm , hold the event this year on the subject of exporting and how to do it , because we 've had very many small companies that might be clueless and want to know erm , exact nuts and bolts of it , so if we could run an event on that basis , and then use that event as the core of a group to take across in this case , Ireland , but perhaps in the future , Holland , who knows where else , to actually sell , using the services of erm , the Embassy in Dublin , our Embassy and the Chamber , with whom we have very good links , then it would be to the benefit of our businesses . |
| 17 | So if you can find an example in your workbook , and you can find your Covermaster rate book , and you 'll also need a calculator . |
| 18 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 19 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 20 | And on that it will say an R for return or whatever and give the girls instructions as to where to go to pick |
| 21 | Because every erm slot above that all revenue above that we will pay an extra fifteen percent . |
| 22 | I had this brilliant idea to blend into the scenery just so I could keep an eye on you . |
| 23 | Instead of staying with me as he 'd planned , he rents this ancient pile , miles from anywhere , just so he can keep an eye on this stupid female who seems to have got herself into all sorts of trouble over a piece of land — ’ |
| 24 | Watch from a few yards away and you will see an elegant rodent , about the size and shape of a hare but with long stilt-like legs , step daintily towards the hole , nose lifted warily . |
| 25 | Thus while it may introduce an object clause , as in the above examples , sentences like the one below , where it introduces a subject clause , are not found : seh she came to your party does n't mean she likes you |
| 26 | Even if the child is difficult , the court can order a blood test if it is clearly in the interests of the child , just as it can order an operation in the case of a ward of court . |
| 27 | There was serious talk in Hong Kong yesterday that he would make an excellent governor of the colony . |
| 28 | The third characteristic envisaged for the polytechnics , namely that they should have an ‘ applied philosophy ’ , means that their courses should have a vocational orientation and be designed with specific career outlets in mind , thus distinguishing them from many university courses which are sometimes described as ‘ pure ’ . |
| 29 | we were able to persuade our new manager Wilf Howe not only of the potential importance of QA to the department but also that we should have an ambitious leap ahead of other departments . |
| 30 | We can fix it temporarily but it 'll take an hour . ’ |