Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 2 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
| 3 | Body position can also be varied ; sitting or lying face in or face up is safer than head first . |
| 4 | Experience shows that two ceiling tiles pinned or glued together are effective , stuck to all but the viewing glass of the aquarium . |
| 5 | You did n't think adding up or taking away was this hard did you ? |
| 6 | There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) On an application for an order being made under subsection ( 1 ) above by any club , the sheriff clerk shall forthwith give notice thereof to the chief constable who may , within 21 days of the date of the receipt by him of such notice , lodge with the sheriff clerk objections to the making of such order on the ground that one or more of the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) above has not or have not been satisfied in relation to the club , and shall , on lodging any such objections , send a copy thereof to the secretary of the club ; and if any such objections are lodged and not withdrawn , the sheriff shall , as soon as may be , hear parties upon the application and objections and may order such enquiry as he thinks fit , and shall thereafter make or refuse to make the order applied for , and may award expenses against the unsuccessful party . |
| 8 | After correcting the posture we will find that movements become easier and we will sense a lightness that has not been present since childhood . |
| 9 | The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home . |
| 10 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 11 | Given the fact that many of the old people concerned are of a generation , class and gender that has traditionally been deferential , it is small wonder if they are characteristically timid and grateful in these exchanges ! |
| 12 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 13 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 14 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 15 | The surveys will enable a more detailed explanatory model of the speech-community to be achieved than has previously been possible , with relevant linkages to social and economic factors , population structure and trends , and key public institutions such as the media , education and administration . |
| 16 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 17 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 18 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 19 | If the hon. Lady knew what was available to those of her constituents who are unemployed , she would know that we offer a wider range of help to unemployed people than has ever been available in this country before . |
| 20 | Which meant , my instinct told me , that phetam really was valuable , and those caped puritans did n't want the whole galaxy to know about it . |
| 21 | as if the atrocity that came before was necessary to validate the atrocity that will come after . |
| 22 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 23 | The grain that came in was that heading for the mills ? |
| 24 | To verify that P2/T6 really is primal feasible , we must check the resource column entries of implicit rows and , if any is negative , perform further dual simplex iterations . |
| 25 | It should not be felt that selling overseas is such a specialist and complex area that the uninitiated must for ever be excluded , or that membership can only be purchased at the expense of having very costly specialist services . |
| 26 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 27 | The burglary that happened yesterday was traumatic . |
| 28 | Yet the figure that returned constantly was that of the audience . |
| 29 | If she had any doubts that Shine On was good enough to win that afternoon , they were dispelled by the way he felt during his early-morning pipe-opener . |
| 30 | O'Brien uses the phrase ‘ perverse incentives ’ to explain how a garage that performs poorly is likely to do better than one that performs well . |