Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [subord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval . |
| 2 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 3 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 4 | the total is different opposite on the scale , instead of all this stuff inside of you , you just let it build up and you let it build up until whoosh and you throw it outside at other people , and that itself that that as well causes physical problems . |
| 5 | On June 3 the National Assembly adopted a resolution approving the holding of the World Fair ( EXPO ) in Budapest in 1996 ( rather than 1995 as originally planned ) with 192 votes in favour , 72 against and 24 abstentions . |
| 6 | It is clear that more than simply reproducing the words in their correct order is required . |
| 7 | The effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill have been more severe and persistent than originally thought , according to a comprehensive report from US government scientists . |
| 8 | To be effective , children 's mathematical experience needs to be rather more wide ranging and demanding than presently seems to be the case . |
| 9 | The British Army soldiers had been , for a considerable period of time , mainly clad in a red tunic for battle , reputably so that any sign of blood was not easily discerned , but Baden-Powell realised that , with the advance of fire arms , the red tunic provided a more prominent target than the rather drab mixture of green and brown as normally worn by the Boers . |
| 10 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 11 | As leader of the free world , supported by many other countries and more than adequately equipped , he and the US would have lost all credibility , had any other decision been made . |
| 12 | And what 's the point of spending money on them if , when it comes to the crunch , you have to act as a ‘ human filter ’ on daily call , lugging foam cartridges or whatever from your pump intake , dripping the sludge across the carpet and more than likely blocking the sink ? |
| 13 | The first chord would sound lamentably thin if laid out as it stands in the original , and the last two would be hopelessly thick and stodgy if literally transcribed . |
| 14 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 15 | These fragments were Klenow end-labelled and isolated as before to produce two groups of three probes with 140k binding sites in circularly permuted positions with respect to their ends . |
| 16 | ‘ If thy' as n't 'ad thy shit tested I 've got a paper 'ere that sez tha ca n't come in . ’ |
| 17 | CC-M2 , CC-M3 , CC-M4 cell lines were grown in RPMI ( Roswell Park Memorial Institute ) — 1640 ( J R Scientific , Inc , Woodland , CA , USA ) medium with 10% fetal calf serum ( Gibco ) and cultured as previously described . |
| 18 | He is also cruel and rapacious when not faced with opposition : he has the priest Anastasius buried alive to extort a charter from him . |
| 19 | More recently formed LSW , however , is considerably colder and fresher than previously formed LSW and has not yet spread beyond the Irminger Basin . |
| 20 | As usual , a happy compromise is possible : you can look smart and attractive while still remaining perfectly mobile . |
| 21 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 22 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 23 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 24 | The book is ecologically as well as artistically sound . |