Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus to claim that Atlantis actually existed , or that Achilles actually existed , is not to ascribe the property of existence to Atlantis or Achilles qua objects of thought , but simply to claim that the world contained Atlantis or Achilles . |
| 2 | Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class , there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it . |
| 3 | We could , however , challenge a man who asserted that , as a matter of historical fact , Cortés ( like Quetzalcoatl ) was born of an eagle and a serpent , or that Cortés was ordained to save the world , or that Cortés never died and now bides his time in some underground crypt awaiting a propitious moment to return and proclaim his sovereignty over Mexico . |
| 4 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 5 | Your friend Kenny was one of my messages , except that Nevil here did that one . |
| 6 | Lawyers pointed out that if Newall again lost his appeal over the tape recording , the Crown might be granted full costs . |
| 7 | That 's highlighting , I guess , one of the points Sue made , that it 's very important when you answer the telephone in the O U P to say exactly who you are , or which department you work in , or something to do with your identity on the phone , because in the system , you could see that if Anthea now diverted her phone to 3434 , you want to call 3485 and you 'll get 3434 . |
| 8 | Do you not agree that if God ever did say Let there be light he must have been over Norfolk at the time ? ’ |
| 9 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 10 | The Pope says that since God initially made us multiply , as is obvious from looking around even the famine fields of Ethiopia , we 'd better do as much of it as we can . |
| 11 | He studied engineering in both France and Germany , patenting the first compression ignition engine in 1892 , so it is fitting that while Germany probably had the early lead , particularly with trucks , French makers have had a love affair with diesel cars since the 1930s . |
| 12 | The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity , his pupil Hrabanus Maurus , abbot of Fulda , wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy . |
| 13 | ‘ O my Lord , ’ he murmured inside his mind as the young chaplain unrolled more and more miracles and spiritual honours of St Kentigern , ‘ make me free of evil thoughts , evil deeds , this wicked life … ’ and the murmurings of his internal prayers gradually absorbed more of his attention so that when Nicholson eventually stopped , he found his listener remote , unaware , it seemed , that the history was over . |
| 14 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 15 | What Ferguson had found and what the left just could not see was that when Hollywood really tried they produced a thing that ought not be pedantically analysed for ‘ the thing exists by itself for its moments on the screen , unquestionable ’ . |
| 16 | Certainly it stands comparison with the better-known Haua Fteah cave in North Africa , which hunters and gatherers occupied from about 75000 years ago and where shellfish also played an important part in the people 's economy . |
| 17 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 18 | It was written rapidly ( and compulsively ) in early 1914 , in an attic room in Selsfield House with some resemblance to his own study bedroom at 61 Shelgate Road where his writing began and where Helen later gave birth to his son . |
| 19 | MacArthur thought Louis Johnson was the real obstacle and that Bradley simply conveyed the attitude of the Secretary of Defense . |
| 20 | I leaned that my soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots or beetroot and that parsnips always forked because , although the soil was deep and good , the amount of stones could be only marginally reduced at each forking over . |
| 21 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 22 | For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries . |
| 23 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 24 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 25 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 26 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 27 | Anne did not allow her new interest in world affairs to interfere with her enjoyment of life , however , and although John never asked her out many other young men did . |
| 28 | Scudamore said afterwards that the Leopardstown run was his best ever regarding his jumping , and although Chatam later flopped in the Cheltenham Gold Cup won by Jodami he was never going on the fast ground and the slower pace of the National should suit him . |
| 29 | And if peptides really did code for memories , should there not be many more of them in the brain than one actually finds ? |
| 30 | There 's a grungy , thrash band playing upstairs , who get the approval of the reggae crew , and if Zoë suddenly came over the speakers , then people would probably wave their arms in the air . |