Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some danger of this position becoming the only way that you can fly the model , with other positions or attitudes becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 2 | These improvements were achieved in a market where hire rates have not improved and where contracts became even harder to win with margins further reduced . |
| 3 | The system of awarding punitive damages as a deterrent to manufacturers or operators falling below acceptable standards of safety totally ignores the huge bureaucracy of regulation and control that exists to preserve those standards . |
| 4 | Where hedges become very interesting , and suggest a huge meadow of fresh research , is when they appear in contexts where a priori we would expect total precision , such as in scientific lectures . |
| 5 | We will introduce a new grant , paid through TECs , to help employers , voluntary groups or schools to set up after-school care and holiday arrangements . |
| 6 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 7 | where animals have usually four legs |
| 8 | Note that where voices occur simultaneously strict ordering downwards has been used . |
| 9 | Three helico , oh , or helicopters went over three times in the night I thought I was gon na raped and pillaged but no luck ! |
| 10 | Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness . |
| 11 | However , fertility was higher where areas had high Irish or Roman Catholic populations ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) ; some parts of Wales , the Highlands of Scotland , and Ulster had later fertility declines ( the rest of Ireland much later ) and Wales and Scotland also retained distinctive marriage patterns . |
| 12 | The difficulties faced by these and by other women with dependent husbands or parents remained as great as before ; neither higher wages nor action by the state came to their rescue . |
| 13 | ( pl. 11 ) The field is divided into panels or compartments containing either individual motifs or identifiable segments of the overall scheme . |
| 14 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |
| 15 | Many biochemically oriented biologists , and especially molecular biologists , tend to feel unhappy about any such need ; the phenomena they study have often tended to be all-or-none , or at least so large that differences between experimental treatments or conditions produce apparently unequivocal results . |
| 16 | Kosovo , where Albanians made up 90 per cent of the province 's population of 2,000,000 , remained a thorny issue . |
| 17 | Darwin 's rejection of geographical isolation encouraged his opponents to postulate sudden transformations or saltations to explain how distinct new species were formed . |
| 18 | Could three or four large water tanks and some carefully arranged bricks or pots produce far better results than the usual tanks in your fishhouse ? |
| 19 | Thus , at least initially , the decline of sexual function is because the ovaries or testes become less responsive to normal signals from the brain . |
| 20 | The drying floor was sited about 3m ( 10ft ) above the furnace and was of slatted wooden construction , being made of laths or battens set fairly close together . |
| 21 | For details concerning the publication history and contents of particular sketches or tales see under individual titles . |
| 22 | Where men feel most secure they keep least suspicious watch . |
| 23 | The combination of oak and stock breeding saw the growth of another major Sussex industry , tanning , very well developed in the Uckfield region , with the specialist ‘ whittawares ’ or leather-dressers kept very busy . |
| 24 | Rapid visualization of mineral distribution , where minerals have closely similar optical properties or are very fine-grained . |
| 25 | And you can all of these , all of the ones where they say , so many men or women take so long to do a job , how many . |
| 26 | This was the earth of which Aleksei Tolstoy wrote : ‘ Know ye the land where all breathes plenty and content , where rivers flow as silver clear . ’ |
| 27 | Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers . |
| 28 | Additionally , few primary schools have the equipment or facilities to carry out scientific experiments as the syllabus suggests . |
| 29 | In a confidential report he reviewed the properties of steels containing upward of 5 per cent chromium , and concluded that steels containing over 10 per cent chromium should be investigated . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , advocacy of focusing on issues rather than institutions became more insistent with the development of the Politics Association and its offspring the Political Education Project under the direction of Bernard Crick . |