Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I can help you with is an understanding of the nature of a product that goes far beyond these crudities ; these academic categories masquerading as truths . ’ |
| 2 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 3 | Despite our lack of grip on these truths , we do take there to be a transcendent fact of the matter at stake , one that lies now beyond all possibilities of being recognized by us . |
| 4 | There is one final and decidedly non-Pacific phenomenon that occurs only in this ocean — the tsunami . |
| 5 | Every department that scores highly in those assessments will benefit accordingly . |
| 6 | but a decrease that bears equally on all producers , whatever their size or location ; |
| 7 | The aim of this programme is to investigate , analyse and clarify the various linkages between government and industry that exists both in this country and in its major competitors . |
| 8 | At any rate , it is the service sector that benefits most from this army of workers who have to sacrifice pay and conditions for convenient hours and proximity to home . |
| 9 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 10 | He that dissents throughout with that church , will dissent with the church of England … |
| 11 | With concern about persistent young offenders on the increase , Mr Major said at Commons question time : ‘ There is a responsibility that spreads far beyond any government . |
| 12 | Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does . |
| 13 | An important emotion that comes across in both books is the constant feeling that the characters have been ‘ hard done by ’ and have had the worst possible luck just because of their colour and poor background . |
| 14 | Terrie put the helm hard over while I alternately concentrated on the reef , closing rapidly on both sides , and took bearings on the tree to ensure that we made whatever course corrections were necessary to counteract the current that runs northward up this coastline at up to three knots . |
| 15 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 16 | and goes right to that wall does n't it ? |
| 17 | In addition there is on each side a characteristic sclerite ( 6 ) the gonangulum which is derived from the anterior part of the coxite of the 9th abdominal segment and articulates primitively with this coxite , the 9th abdominal tergum and the gonapophysis of the 8th segment . |
| 18 | Gergiev encourages them intelligently , and accompanies throughout with much sensitivity . |
| 19 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 20 | It is extremely positive it sta , it clears these points up and and answers most of these questions so I would urge Mr Chairman that to on sheer education , on terms of provision of services , I 'm not party to all of the politics , I agree with what you said , absolutely crazy . |
| 21 | His method is to record what happens , over the course of sixty years of the narrator 's life , to the large group of people that he meets and meets again during this period ; what they made of themselves and what he made of them . |
| 22 | ‘ The points collation system is very detailed and focuses individually on each TNT principle . |
| 23 | Most of us know , or have encountered in some way , an example of someone who speaks his mind , and does so with such gentleness and grace he rarely alienates anyone . |
| 24 | The crowd is told to go back home , and does so with some relief . |
| 25 | Thus the idea of treatment by opposites came to dominate medical thought and does so till this day . |
| 26 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |
| 27 | Kael joined the magazine in 1968 and remains there to this day , her tenure only briefly interrupted in 1978 when Paramount 's offer of a consulting job tempted her to Hollywood . |
| 28 | All these responses are based on a seriously inadequate concept of God as being literally like a man , best denoted by a small g : a god who is visible ; a god who has physical properties like anything else in the world ; a god who inhabits certain places and not others ; a god who acts and behaves just like another person . |
| 29 | Average in verbal critical reasoning and numeracy skills , but copes well in most situations , deals positively with people and manages them well . |