Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double Or Nothing mimes out its own liminal qualities , exemplifying Federman 's general assertion that , since reading completes a text , ‘ writing can be considered as a PRE-TEXT … |
| 2 | How about the new 0–0-10 system where everyone plays up front and tries to score — at least we may score and a result is better than another bloody draw . |
| 3 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 4 | It 's not the case with opera , where everyone walks backwards and sounds God-awful . |
| 5 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 6 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 7 | Games always result in a win-lose outcome where someone comes out on top but at the other person 's expense . |
| 8 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 9 | The opening day scene on the Marton route in 1901 , where nobody looks very happy , which might be a reflection of the rough ride given by the first car ! |
| 10 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 11 | There is little point in moving to a community that does not cater for your tastes , or which does not offer interesting opportunities . |
| 12 | responsibility analysis ’ which broadly takes the existing political and economic structure of society for granted , or which does not relate it very strongly to individual families ' difficulties . |
| 13 | Whatever the cause , any pain which is constant or which occurs frequently should be investigated . |
| 14 | ( *indicates a piece of language which is not used or which has not been recorded . ) |
| 15 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 16 | There is one and only one element which stands in the relation R to all the other members of the set ( if R is transitive ) , or which stands either in the relation R or some higher power of R to all the other members of the set ( if R is intransitive ) . |
| 17 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 18 | Having been left by her husband in his urge for voyages abroad , Erendis retreats to the centre of Númenor , away from the sea , where she hears only the bleating of sheep . |
| 19 | Until the final custody proceedings are over , it is best for Kirsty that she remain here , where her friends are , where she feels most at home . ’ |
| 20 | Eventually he pushes his mother to the point of exasperation where she lashes out at him . |
| 21 | She will be accompanied on the year-long exercise by colleagues from Bristol University , where she has just completed her final examination for a zoology degree . |
| 22 | She has won her spurs in her role as Minister of Health , where she has frequently had to appear in place of her beleaguered former boss , William Waldegrave . |
| 23 | And where she blows up the lorry . |
| 24 | ‘ Where she lives now . |
| 25 | This is an opportunity to strengthen existing partnerships by securing board membership from a linked company , or to begin the process of negotiation which might lead to a productive partnership where none exists thus far . |
| 26 | The alternative of deciding not to get involved in any but the most obvious and serious cases means that an enormous amount of damage can be done by each and every suffering individual both to himself or herself and to the Company while he or she progresses inexorably towards becoming a " serious case " . |
| 27 | Just because a child may lack wisdom and finesse does not mean that he or she lacks either intelligence or sensibility . |
| 28 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 29 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 30 | He or she sits there silently looking at your books and your business can succeed or fail depending on what they see . |