Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] are [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As risen apes we have come to dominate this small planet so effectively that we are in danger of smothering it .
2 So long as they are on a well-drained surface above ground-water level , moisture from above will not harm them , and clamps may be built outside anywhere sheltered from strong winds .
3 Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) .
4 While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’
5 The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) .
6 ‘ It 's easier to walk along outside while we are in the station , ’ he explained .
7 Now so far as we are in a position to judge , the information was reliable .
8 ( 2 ) On a taxation on the indemnity basis all costs shall be allowed except in so far as they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and any doubts which the taxing officer may have as to whether the costs were reasonably incurred or were reasonable in amount shall be resolved in favour of the receiving party ; and in these rules the term ‘ the indemnity basis ' in relation to the taxation of costs shall be construed accordingly .
9 But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ .
10 They could do so again , especially now that they are in conflict not only with the West but also with their own leaders and with their mentors ( and military suppliers ) in Serbia .
11 It 's only now that we are in the position where we can actually start to make the links , ’ said Mr Lee .
12 So even if you are under an umbrella , for example , you could still get sunburnt .
13 If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving .
14 Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work .
15 Further on we come to Tophet Wall : impressively steep , even more so when you are on it !
16 High adventure drew from Dickson McCunn a latent heroism : Thomas Carlyle Craw had buried his sense and courage far more deeply but they are at least glimpsed at the end of an adventure story which interprets the concept of honour in terms of individual rather than of chivalric motives .
17 And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ?
18 While courses such as intravenous therapy updates are readily acceptable and have immediately observable results in terms of clinical care delivery , less tangible skills such as teaching need to be built up gradually if they are to be successful , another factor which may affect motivation .
19 Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body .
20 To move forward we are laying plans now so that we are in a position to take advantage of whatever the future offers . ’
21 Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties .
22 Perhaps I am in your thoughts as often as you are in mine dearest Elsie .
23 We 're going to imagine now then that you are in a situation where you 've got to solve a problem .
24 ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said .
25 And quite frankly when we are in bed , I might as well be anybody .
26 rebates on the new council tax , my constituents in Littleborough and Saddleworth , on the border of Calderdale , will gain quite significantly if they are on income support ?
27 ‘ Play offensively only when you are inside the service line .
28 We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us .
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