Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 2 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
| 3 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 4 | But because I am a girl I ca n't stop my brothers from doing wrong , so please help Kim to behave better so that there is no more trouble . " |
| 5 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 6 | A problem , after all , is only so if it is a problem to someone . |
| 7 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 8 | The next breakpoint is 600dpi — so long as it is a true 600dpi system and not an interpolated one where the dots in the middle are filled in if the ones on either side are present . |
| 9 | MOMENTS of passion can include ice-cream so long as it is the grown-up variety . |
| 10 | If it is out , try relighting it with a match , so long as there is no strong smell of gas . |
| 11 | They can work down an excellent tilth after ploughing so long as there is no unrotted turf . |
| 12 | The desired formula ( strictly valid only if constituency seats and list seats are equal in number ) will then show that the system will function tidily so long as there is no party for which x exceeds 2y . |
| 13 | So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant . |
| 14 | Any of these conditions is pleasurable so long as there is a good likelihood of satisfaction in reasonably short order . |
| 15 | We see no reason why the decision should be unanimous so long as there is a majority in favour . |
| 16 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 17 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Bush reiterated his commitment to maintain the 39,000 US troops stationed in South Korea " so long as there is a need and we 're welcome " . |
| 19 | Conditions can be imposed for regulating the development or use of any land under the control of the applicant , whether or not it is the land to which the application relates , so long as there is a definite relationship between the object of the condition and the development permitted . |
| 20 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |
| 21 | Sam was also a masterly shepherd and an expert breeder of Swaledale sheep , a most hardy animal which roams at will along the high fells and can live through all but the most brutal winters , even possessing the stamina to survive being buried for days under several feel of snow , so long as there is an air hole . |
| 22 | It may have been of more limited scope , for example , ‘ I refuse to have a blood transfusion , so long as there is an effective alternative . ’ |
| 23 | But how can that ever be , so long as there 's the possibility that you can escape back into your filthy damn whiteness ? ’ |
| 24 | Though the latter can , within limits , create reasons , it can do so only when there is a non-will-based reason why it should . |
| 25 | You see the same thing in our kind of business , but we 've really been operating in international markets for much longer and it 's a slower process . |
| 26 | This bodily preparation needs to occur so quickly that there is no time for conscious thought , the caveman does not have time to talk himself into this state of readiness . |
| 27 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |
| 28 | There is some authority to suggest that a doctor is under a duty to prevent the suicide of such a patient in so far as there is a duty to control the patient . |
| 29 | But he can rarely know whether or not the policeman has good grounds for acting as he does , and in so far as there is a conflict between the citizen and the policeman , the reasonable suspicions of the policeman must take priority . |
| 30 | Philosophy , in so far as it is the articulation of the concepts , dilemmas , explanations and abstractions of a culture , will only be half the story unless both genders contribute equally . |