Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So once you 've cleansed , and once you 've toned you then make sure that the face is either tissued dry or you can actually pad to your face , after the toner , with a towel .
2 But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again .
3 Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off .
4 I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place !
5 You must let me do that or I ca n't think of rejoining you . ’
6 Either that or I ca n't read your writing properly .
7 So you 've put your marks every two squares , but you do n't need to write all the numbers in you could just write say erm two , four , six , eight or you could just write five , ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five .
8 Another thing-if I ca n't keep my works here , where am I gon na jack up ? ’
9 This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract .
10 either that it 's funny or he ca n't read the fucking question
11 I said ooh you 'll either find it really funny or you would n't find it funny at all but erm
12 However , the FNT announced on July 30 that it would not participate in this national dialogue because the government was reneging on the July 12 agreement by continuing to dismiss workers , especially in the textile sector .
13 The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 .
14 Despite an earlier commitment to abide by the result , Savimbi indicated on Sept. 30 that he would not accept defeat as the outcome of the elections .
15 Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand .
16 ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship .
17 ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship .
18 Some of those primitive men are so good at this that they can exactly imitate the different animals , and even other human beings .
19 They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us .
20 As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself !
21 We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind .
22 She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice .
23 Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence .
24 There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane
25 Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , pp. 144–5 ) writes of the Temple Tomb as the only certain example of a Minoan royal tomb , but its status is so peculiar that we can not be sure who was buried there , either at the beginning or at the close of its period of use .
26 ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’
27 It is clear that one can not give a general rule .
28 Most recent historical work on the rural economy has involved studies in depth of particular regions or even individual manors , and despite the patchiness of the surviving evidence it is clear that one can not draw hard and fast lines of distinction between regions of arable farming and those of stock-rearing .
29 It is clear that one can not own confidential information in the sense that one can own a car .
30 Graham Strachan , director of business development at Scott Lithgow , said that Trafalgar intended to sell the yard as a going concern : ‘ We are quite clear that we wo n't be selling off bits and pieces .
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