Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To speak today of the defence of democracy as if we were defending something which we knew and had possessed for many decades or many centuries is self-deception and sham … |
| 2 | Code switching is a common type of behaviour among bilinguals in many communities where the use of two or more languages is widespread and stable . |
| 3 | But to be alone is not , in the end , to be lonely , and there are those who discover that in the end they need no one but themselves , and that solitude is more than enough . |
| 4 | It can happen that the business side assumes a dominant role in the diagnosis of educational problems and the formulation of solutions and that education is less than whole hearted in its co-operation with business . |
| 5 | Wilberforce saw very clearly that this was the issue and that evolutionism was damnable because it implied moral and cultural relativity . |
| 6 | Assuming a primary sex ratio ( males/females ) of unity and that mortality is random and dependent only on mobility pattern , operational sex ratio is where b is the ratio : time per adult male seeking sexual encounter/time per female . |
| 7 | In conversations and discussions the thrust should be that school is a good place and that learning is fun and worthwhile . |
| 8 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 9 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |
| 10 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 11 | Moreover , these houses had four rooms , and each room was bigger than its Nottingham counterpart ; and there was rarely more than one family per house . |
| 12 | But the costs of knighthood were high , and some nobles were unwilling or unable to meet the expenditure which was demanded of them . |
| 13 | And some scientists are angry that ISPRA seems certain to grab a large slice of the action , at the expense of the other laboratories . |
| 14 | Many roundabouts in Essex are traditionally known by whatever pub stands nearby , and some councillors were concerned that names would change whenever the pub changed hands . |
| 15 | However , generalizations are dangerous : some chairmen are only part-time and some councils are large while others are small and highly specialized . |
| 16 | And this wall 's wasted cos of this . |
| 17 | Do not those excellent figures show that this party and this country are sincere and wholehearted in their activities within the European Community ? |
| 18 | And when children enjoy , they are absorbed , and this absorption is important and necessary too . |
| 19 | The ultimate experience in the Yogic views is the realisation that everything is contained in consciousness , and this awareness is obvious when an essential identity is established between individual consciousness and the object . |
| 20 | Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed . |
| 21 | And this lot is some that I took down here . |
| 22 | 1990 in the northern Rhône was a star vintage , making some lovely ripe wines with masses of fruit and balancing tannin , and this example is warm and gutsy . |
| 23 | The Vendor is the beneficial owner free from liens , charges , encumbrances and adverse claims and ( wherever possible ) the registered proprietor of the Listed Intellectual Property Rights and such rights are valid and enforceable . |
| 24 | A significant fraction of airborne dust is composed of alumino-silicates up to about 4μm in size , and these elements are ubiquitous as contaminants . |
| 25 | Society has the right , according to Devlin , to protect itself from immoral acts , and these acts are immoral if , by definition , every ‘ right-minded ’ person could be assumed to consider them so . |
| 26 | Women and men respond to material pressures on their speech , and these pressures are different because — outside a tiny elite anyhow — women and men participate in different status hierarchies which are not readily comparable . |
| 27 | The 9.43–10.12 question appeared in this test context also , and fewer pupils were successful than when the question was asked directly , probably because the information required had first to be selected by the pupils from all the figures given in the timetables . |
| 28 | The two groups were age matched and all women were married or living as married . |
| 29 | ‘ Overkill ’ causes unnecessary suffering to the offender , and all suffering is bad unless it prevents a greater amount of suffering or brings about a greater quantity of pleasure . |
| 30 | Tins of paint may be more economical ; although this may be because they are student quality , and all paint is cheaper when bought in quantity . |