Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The addition of colour , and specifically the facility to produce separations , is of substantial benefit to the professional graphic artist but , unless he or she already possesses a colour Macintosh II , is likely to be of little real benefit to the average user other than as a ‘ feature ’ to show off . |
| 2 | ‘ A person who has symptoms of cardiovascular disease has much more to gain from reducing lipid levels [ because he or she already has a higher risk of dying from the disease ] than does someone with desirable lipid levels , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Finally , evidence is accumulating that a person 's emotional environment influences his or her likelihood of suffering an acute psychotic episode if he or she already has a history of schizophrenic disorder . |
| 4 | Now then , he argues that since in the state of nature erm the individual has the right to life , liberty and property , he or she also has a right to take such steps are necessary for the protection o o of these rights . |
| 5 | Part of that policy is the unlisted market group 's recent £7.2 million bid for Brabant Resources , where it already owns a 9.99 per cent stake and has irrevocable undertakings to accept its offer from holders of 11.4 per cent more . |
| 6 | MRI has been much slower to develop than computed tomography , but its impact in those areas where it clearly has a substantial advantage has been enormous , namely the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system . |
| 7 | It will maintain a sales and support network in the 150 countries where it now has a presence , but there may be cuts in both Wang employee numbers and the type of facilities it will operate . |
| 8 | Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt . |
| 9 | that she just gets a |
| 10 | It is noteworthy that Ælfgifu is not called queen , but that she nevertheless occupies a position next to Emma and before the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 11 | ‘ It may be significant , although it hardly suggests a motive for murder . |
| 12 | Although it certainly has a romantic streak , our subject is a serious academic discipline ; it is not an intellectualized transcendental meditation in which exotic beliefs are wrenched crudely from their setting to be appropriated in the selfish pursuit of some second-hand , simulated , and ultimately spurious nirvana . |
| 13 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 14 | Although it only contains a small number of members , we have here a distinct and interesting adjective type , which among other things strikingly illustrates the unconscious linguistic skill of ordinary speakers ( see also Appendix B Section 5 ) . |
| 15 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 16 | However , the XE is not well supported by software houses , and although it still has a lot of games , most of these are very old . |
| 17 | Although it still has a stronger name on the track , the 1992 road range builds on the strength of previous years . |
| 18 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 19 | But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries , he has never actually managed a hotel . |
| 20 | He will certainly play another club season at the Quins and , although he certainly nurtures a strong desire to play against the South Africans in November , he realises that come the new season he may not feel quite as strongly . |
| 21 | Although he still has a long-term ambition to become a managing director of a successful company , for the moment his main aim is ‘ to help build Citigate into a top-quality player ’ . |
| 22 | But for all the triumphs of the Socratic spirit , its true significance is that it repeatedly prompts a regeneration of art — art in the metaphysical sense which is its widest and deepest sense . |
| 23 | IBM says that it already has a prototype of the latter running in its Hursley Park facility and that the two companies ‘ will move very quickly ’ to bring the product to market . |
| 24 | But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 . |
| 25 | We know that it already has a very good bus service . |
| 26 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 27 | ‘ The UK is a logical next step for Alco Office Products and Erskine House is an ideal fit considering that it also has a significant presence in the US market and complementary interests in Germany , ’ Alco chairman and chief executive Ray Mundt commented . |
| 28 | Second , the Trust is a body committed to conservation on such a wide scale — it is the second largest landowner in Britain — that it also has a clear duty to ensure that it follows good environmental practice in its own affairs . |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 30 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |