Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 2 | We do not yet know whether such differences are inherent or are induced by disease or even by the drugs themselves , or what part is played by age . |
| 3 | The Highlanders surrounded Ruthven , offering Molloy and his dozen men the choice of moving out unharmed or being overrun and hanged , but he refused , and beat off an attack by 150 Highlanders . |
| 4 | If a specific sum is anticipated in 6 months time , and today 's price of the share in which it is intended to invest is considered low or is forecast to rise , then the price may be fixed now by the use of a call option . |
| 5 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |
| 6 | They certainly did object to the proposed changes , but they did so in terms of where it is right that the inset boundary should be placed , and as far as I 'm aware there are no references in any objections to the wider question of whether or not the village should be washed-over or be inset . |
| 7 | They can be as simple or as elaborate as you like , depending on the fabric , the heading , the pelmet , whether they hang free or are tied back and , of course , on your taste and what suits the room . |
| 8 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |
| 9 | Blasts from weapons went astray or were turned back to their sources so that the warlock seemed to be using his/her assailants as puppets to fight themselves . |
| 10 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 11 | In what manner — other than its worthiness — was this fate different than being slaughtered on one 's home world ? |
| 12 | erm you know , because I want to do something more clear that 's gon na fit in with everybody else |
| 13 | This was more interesting than being snapped and given a card . |
| 14 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 15 | Only after receiving assurances that the Emperor would neither be embarrassed nor be expected to apologize for atrocities committed by Japanese forces did Miyazawa consent to the visit . |
| 16 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 17 | It was almost more painful than being labelled a cheat . |
| 18 | The real reason she 'd wanted to leave was the harsh discovery that when you were nursing a broken heart there was nothing more painful than being surrounded by others who were happily in love . |
| 19 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 20 | A chiral species rotates the plane of polarization of plane polarized light that is passed through it ; the direction of rotation depends on which enantiomer is present , for the rotation is equal and opposite for the two enantiomers . |
| 21 | The First Battle of Ypres fell into three distinct phases : the manoeuvres that brought the four Allied armies into position by about 20 October ; the German attacks on the River Yser and at La Bassee and Arras ; and the blows on the British salient that was forming east of Ypres . |
| 22 | The gospel is changeless and is centred on the saving power of Christ and his lordship over our lives . |
| 23 | The consequences of such ecological voluntarism are now clear and are encapsulated by such terms as " population explosion " , " pollution " " limits to growth " , and so forth . |
| 24 | Again , the G1S implications are clear and are discussed below . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the predominance of centrifugal movement is clear and is found to have intensified markedly between the 1950s and the 1970s . |
| 26 | The driver , from Kempsey near Worcester , had jumped clear and was found by rescue workers . |
| 27 | When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up . |
| 28 | Moreover it was the last mass circulation Liberal daily and was closed by abrupt merger with the Daily Mail — a Conservative paper . |
| 29 | Persian Turkomans are entirely tribal and are marketed either as Bokharas or under the name of the specific tribe . |
| 30 | The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 . |