Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |
| 2 | But he then swung the other way , especially once he discovered that the appointment of a new British prime minister was a possibility . |
| 3 | The actual concentration of an industry is hard to assess precisely and there are many different measures of it ( eg if we say that the five firm concentration ratio is 85 per cent , this means that the largest five firms in the industry control 85 per cent of the market ; a two firm concentration ratio of 100 per cent indicates that two firms completely dominate the market ) . |
| 4 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 5 | Buckets , well every night time , when we finished dredging , you had to wash down , wash the decks down cos I mean that the decks used to be covered in mud and slush , so all we had then was an old draw bucket on a bit of rope , over the side , there were n't no hoses then , we used to the bucket and then we used to swing all the mud back in there , in the river . |
| 6 | Generally , senators assume that the President has the right to make the nominations and they will block them only if they feel that the nominees are particularly weak and the President needs teaching a lesson . |
| 7 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 8 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 9 | Only if he feels that a private sector or B R management would be er frightened off bidding , and he knew that there were viable bids in play |
| 10 | ( 4 ) The sheriff may uphold an appeal under this section only if he considers that the licensing board in arriving at its decision : a ) erred in law ; b ) based its decision on any incorrect material fact ; c ) acted contrary to natural justice ; or d ) exercised its discretion in an unreasonable manner . |
| 11 | Puppies are unable to relate to an event which occurred in the past , so if you find that a place has been soiled overnight there is little point in scolding the puppy accordingly . |
| 12 | So if you buy when the trust is on an offer basis and sell when it is on a bid basis , you will suffer an effective charge of the full spread . |
| 13 | ‘ So if it appears that the Princess has contrived to bring her own marriage down then that is not the case at all , ’ says Penny . |
| 14 | Especially if you add that the incident in question took place in public , and in broad daylight . |
| 15 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 16 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 17 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 18 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 19 | It is only because they assume that the entry of black families into their neighbourhood makes it ‘ undesirable ’ , for example , that white residents ‘ act rationally ’ to keep them out and protect the value of their properties . |
| 20 | It is probably a more accurate reflection of the truth , because of the likelihood that at least some of those who said ‘ yes ’ did so because they thought that the answer was expected of them . |
| 21 | It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head . |
| 22 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 23 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 24 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 25 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 26 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ Naturally I am very disappointed , especially as I felt that the evidence and explanations produced would be accepted . |
| 28 | The thought made her frown , especially as she admitted that the feeling when she remembered was jealousy . |
| 29 | So as I said before a piece of material contains equal numbers of positive and negative charges . |
| 30 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |