Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was constantly stressed that we are now only qualified to dive in the conditions in which we learnt , that we should always go out with people of greater experience , and that with recreational diving ( which PADI stress this diving is ) , you never go deeper than 30 metres unless you have a specific reason , i.e. a wreck . |
| 2 | People are what they are , but some acts are good , others bad , and legislators , reformers and ‘ moralists ’ should aim at organizing society so that human beings as they really are find themselves in circumstances where they tend to do the former . |
| 3 | It can be deduced by the prisoner if his local review committee date is less than 17 years after he was first detained , by adding three years to the period that he will have served at that date . |
| 4 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 5 | It is Mr Bush 's foreign policy crowning glory less than four weeks before he hands over the White House to President-elect Bill Clinton . |
| 6 | A rare moment of genuine excitement surrounded an untitled painting by Mimmo Paladino ( lot 349 , est. £18,000–24,000 ) which engaged the attention of no less than eight bidders before it was sold for £47,000 . |
| 7 | The threat to Portland comes less than two years after it gained a reprieve . |
| 8 | The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor the benefit of their conclusions . |
| 9 | The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor their conclusions . |
| 10 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 11 | Less than one month after she and David were married , and knowing that he himself would never have the courage to ask , Beth had gone to Luther Reynolds with a certain proposition . |
| 12 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |
| 13 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 14 | Those writers who travelled from Los Angeles had a twenty-four-hour journey and were called to a Peter Sellers press conference less than three hours after they arrived in Britain . |
| 15 | From London you can be putting your boots on at the Bloody Bridge car park in less than three hours if you have a mind to . |
| 16 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 17 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) In determining whether a lease is one to which section 11 applies — ( b ) a lease which is determinable at the option of the lessor before the expiration of seven years from the commencement of the term shall be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years , and ( c ) a lease ( other than a lease to which paragraph ( b ) applies ) shall not be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years if it confers on the lessee an option for renewal for a term which , together with the original term , amounts to seven years or more . |
| 19 | Ian Dowie , a former missile engineer , was launched into international football by Northern Ireland yesterday — less than 48 hours after he was grounded by a red card while on loan with Fulham . |
| 20 | Less than 3 weeks before he murdered Anna , Andrew Hagans was on remand in Gloucester prison charged with raping another woman . |
| 21 | THE Queen 's speech was leaked less than 24 hours after it was recorded . |
| 22 | The 27-year-old former Army officer tried to kill himself less than 24 hours before he was due in court again accused of murdering his parents at their home in Jersey . |
| 23 | A strike by Russian air traffic controllers on Aug. 15 lasted less than 24 hours before it collapsed . |
| 24 | But to fully relinquish myself and to trust you , O God , is a much deeper and wider experience than I can yet fully enter into . |
| 25 | During our discussions , we have raised many issues that need deeper and further explanation if we are to achieve the right results for Scottish education . |
| 26 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 27 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 28 | Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died . |
| 29 | Foals who have learnt to evade bot-flies in such a way , will continue to do so as adult horses if they have access to shelter . |
| 30 | Gandhi , as we have seen , sees no superiority in conceiving of God in impersonal rather than personal terms so it is difficult to see how the traditional distinction between higher and lower levels of truth can be applied to him . |