Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that few managers read on , or that most mainstream management academics see business ethics as a ‘ soft ’ subject . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like the look of that bull , ’ said Lydia , ‘ or that simply colossal pig . |
| 3 | The same analyses that have undermined rehabilitation have also undermined some classical deterrent assumptions : the evidence does not suggest that more punishment automatically provides more deterrence or that more serious crimes necessarily require more punishment to deter them . |
| 4 | There , are there , is this a a rural area on the whole or that so many have closed , chapels ? |
| 5 | Or that perhaps two or three dwellings together necessarily constitutes a settlement . |
| 6 | She reported initial agreement on medical evacuations from the city , where some badly wounded people have lain for months without being able to get proper treatment or artificial limbs . |
| 7 | There are still very many families in Tiree who pay no rent , and these have a settlement of their own , called ‘ The Moss , ’ where some very poor creatures dwell , and must have but a miserable livelihood . |
| 8 | In one way or another almost all the world 's energy resources derive from the sun . |
| 9 | Unfortunately there are many secondary schools , especially in the denominational sector , where this strictly educational approach is not followed . |
| 10 | But how could she ever predict anything where this totally unpredictable man was concerned ? |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it seems highly probable that the persisting biochemical abnormalities ( phenylalanine excess or some closely related change ) at least make a substantial contribution to the neurological impairment . |
| 12 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 13 | Every so often , and it 's not often enough , we at Guitarist Mansions get a review guitar through the post which is well-built , reasonably priced , nicely styled and which does what it says it does , with no design gimmickry , cheap glitter or high-falutin' bumph claiming it to be a ‘ sound revolution ’ , or some equally laughable piece of flannel . |
| 14 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 15 | It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out . |
| 16 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 17 | Sadly , judging by the advertisements on pages 2 and 47 of February 's edition ( ‘ Blind Date ’ and ‘ Mandate ’ ) , you are going where all too many have gone before . |
| 18 | PUCCI For those too young to remember them last time , or those too eccentric to care . |
| 19 | These risk indicators took account both of social and medical variables — for example , elderly patients receiving repeat prescriptions , or those recently widowed . ) |
| 20 | The workhouse will be visited by one or more very important people — perhaps a magistrate , an inspector of workhouses , or a wealthy benefactor . |
| 21 | Do you , for example , have any shares or National Savings Certificates , or any particularly valuable personal belongings , or life insurance ? |
| 22 | Postverbal adjectives do not seem to raise any very difficult problems or any fundamentally new issues . |
| 23 | Do not use perfume , after-shave or any strongly scented toiletries for a while . |
| 24 | At the same time Christians are committed to caring and compassionate action to help those who are homosexual , and all who suffer from AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease . |
| 25 | 1 Can you remember any particular books you liked when you were very young ( before you started Juniors ) ? 2 What were they ? 3 How much can you remember about them ? 4 What was good about them ? 5 Do you have any especially happy memories about reading in those days ? 6 Or any especially unhappy memories ? 7 Did learning to write help your reading ? 8 Talk about your first experiences of reading with a friend and write down all the things you can remember . |
| 26 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 27 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 28 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 29 | And it 's quite clear that that very high death toll from flu last winter was not because the vaccine was n't working , but because the vaccine was n't getting into the people who needed it . |
| 30 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |