Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In rural areas , especially where education has been hardest hit , they will be very hard to implement .
2 ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him .
3 The whole operation may in fact be summarised as LT = AL : unc Recovery of the eigenvectors in the LR procedure is not straightforward , especially if deflation has been used .
4 If only because cardiotocography has been shown to reduce the rate of neonatal convulsions after complicated labours its use should not be abandoned .
5 Indeed , there were fewer patients than expected taking NSAIDs , perhaps since intake had been reduced because of chronic duodenal ulcer disease .
6 It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed .
7 Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than Ellen 's barely decipherable notes which came rarely and only after money had been remitted .
8 Endpoints such as consumer satisfaction or treatment costs , which are sometimes used as substitutes to evaluate alternative approaches , are meaningful only after effectiveness has been established .
9 The important point , however , is that even in the dark days of May 1940 the Home Office was very reluctant to destroy the fascist movement , and the Security Service joined the campaign to intern Mosley and the most important members of the movement only after information had been acquired which suggested secretive behaviour and links with potentially treasonable behaviour .
10 As we will see later , the applicant in a public law action must first seek leave to apply for judicial review , and only when leave has been granted will the application actually be heard .
11 a minority , they were covered with felt rather than ash felt were they not ?
12 Indeed Stephen Greenblatt 's preferred term for new historical activities , cultural poetics , more clearly indicates how anthropology rather than history has been the discipline which has more profoundly affected new historicist methods .
13 Peace rather than war had been his goal throughout .
14 The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable .
15 The strangely crouching posture , with the head down and the body hunched , seems to have been taken from the ‘ hiding-by-staying-put-on-the-nest ’ repertoire , while the running away and squealing has been taken from the escape repertoire .
16 The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable .
17 They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch .
18 ‘ A great crowd assembled , ’ runs the report in The Sexual Life of Our Time , ’ from the midst of which the unfortunate couple were removed in a closed carriage , and taken to the hospital , and not until chloroform had been administered to the girl did the spasm pass off and free the man . ’
19 Just because information has been summarised about a data source may not justify the failure to retain the base data .
20 She sued the Ministry of Defence at the Court of Session and the agreement was announced shortly before evidence had been due to start before Lord Prosser yesterday .
21 As the DGM was to relate shortly after closure had been achieved : ‘ Investment capital was the greatest difficulty [ together with ] the revenue consequences .
22 You can get away with a lot of things at Oxford , but disappearing off the face of the earth just before term starts is not one of them .
23 Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent .
24 The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection .
25 All instruments should be immersed in either a suitable disinfectant or minimum 5 per cent formaldehyde solution as soon as treatment has been completed .
26 The Hampden will be transferred to the RAF Museum 's storage and restoration facility at Cardington , Beds , as soon as space has been arranged for it .
27 There 's one exercise in the book that sums it up , and the instructor is quick to demonstrate it as soon as theory has been tackled .
28 Climbers should note that as soon as agreement has been reached , climbing activities will not be permitted at these locations .
29 Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure .
30 Edna 's had to go home because Mum 's been took sick . ’
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