Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has after all become a commonplace that the creative imagination of the philosopher , mathematician or scientist is not much different from that of a prophet or poet ; what distinguishes him is how he treats his findings in retrospect . |
| 2 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
| 3 | Once policies are on the statute books , there is reluctance to change them , or change is very slow and largely through non-statutory guidance . |
| 4 | This is why the responsibility of ( say ) looking after a small brother or sister is so valuable in enhancing the social awareness and maturity of the older boy or girl who is doing the substitute parenting . |
| 5 | This is very often a kind of prose poem where narrative is not the issue ; it develops images and phrases , for an example read Beckett 's short stories . |
| 6 | A visual check of the general condition of the water or effluent is normally made when a sample is taken , and other inspections are often made without sampling . |
| 7 | Well , usually with this sort of , with the replicability , or reliability is pretty low . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're continually on the move , what time or opportunity is there for interaction at any but the most superficial level ? ’ |
| 9 | The appearance on Aspel & Co is mysteriously cancelled . |
| 10 | There is , however , no harm at all in professional hypnotic cassettes , which are designed to assist you in overcoming a specific problem where regression is not needed — smoking , studying , pre-menstrual tension and so on . |
| 11 | Such a personal dialect or variety is usually termed an idiolect . |
| 12 | The important role of Helicobacter pylori in idiopathic duodenal ulcer disease has been widely acknowledged since the clear demonstration that ulcer relapse or remission is strongly associated with H pylori colonisation or absence from the gastric mucose . |
| 13 | If you , an ambitious young squire or the equivalent ( a grade 2 clerk ) are allocated a knight whose own baron or mentor is out of favour , or whose manager is out of fashion , your ambitions will be thwarted . |
| 14 | In the officers ' club , when we are drinking ( which we nearly always are ) , and where shit is constantly mentioned and invoked , we sometimes refer to Auschwitz as Anus Mundi . |
| 15 | The law now explicitly states that the study of any such catechism or formulary is not prohibited . |
| 16 | Despite the strictures imposed and the tough economic climate , William Grant & Sons is constantly investing in the future . |
| 17 | The fact that these benefits are achieved by differences in engine size , suspension design or paintwork is really of secondary interest . |
| 18 | Where money is particularly tight , some couples will start married life in a spare room at the home of one set of parents — usually the brides . |
| 19 | But if the situation Benjamin describes is too open , its constitutive relationships too direct and insufficiently mediated , Adorno 's net , by contrast , is so tightly drawn , its equations so perfect , its circle so complete , that any change , critique or differentiation of meaning or response is all but impossible . |
| 20 | It only does not colour the beautiful " gutter " quartet [ 20 ] , where Grimes is not mentioned — a temporary release which is as happy dramatically as it is musically . |
| 21 | An eighteen or nineteen-year-old is usually much more mature than a fourteen or fifteen-year-old , and may even be contemplating marriage by this time . |
| 22 | If a particular type or category is especially popular in one country , it will tend to be slightly more expensive there than elsewhere . |
| 23 | Whether this is a common occurence and whether the larvae migrate or are transported by terrestrial populations of earthworms or beetles is not definitely known , but the occurrence of this apparent reservoir of larvae in soil may be important in relation to certain systems of control based on grazing management . |
| 24 | The process or the how-to-do is , in the final analysis , no substitute for what-to-do ; simple minded glorification of method or technique is usually a cover-up for an academic procedure . |
| 25 | This theory conforms with the concept of technology building on technology , where progress is not a random process but a synthesis of what has gone before . |
| 26 | if pilferage or damage is not notified in writing within a specified number of days of delivery , and a claim made in writing within a further specified number of days of delivery . |
| 27 | You ca n't find an example of pain and suffering , compared to our Western art where pathos is everywhere . |
| 28 | In fact dealing in shares or futures is essentially a flair . |
| 29 | There are certainly some situations in which it would be seen as entirely inappropriate , for example in relationships between grandchildren and their grandparents , where support is normally given from the older to the younger generation , but in the form of a gift . |
| 30 | Bookselling has for long been stereotyped as a sheltered world , separated from the usual pressures of everday business concerns , where change is almost instinctively resisted . |