Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 2 | All these questions can help you decide whether the ad is right or whether it needs changing . |
| 3 | If it is n't then you 've got ta make a choice of whether you want to be private or whether you want to run the risk of someone using it as cover . |
| 4 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 5 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 7 | It did n't seem to her that Timothy Gedge was trying to make a joke , yet it was amazing that he was saying all this just to pay them back for not being friendly or because he wanted a wedding-dress they would n't give him , or for any reason at all . |
| 8 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |
| 9 | Held , ( 1 ) that on an appeal to the High Court from a decision of justices under the Children Act 1989 fresh evidence could be adduced only with leave in exceptional circumstances , and the court would not interfere with the exercise of the justices ' discretion unless it considered that their decision was plainly wrong or that they had erred in principle ; and that , further , an interm order would not lightly be interfered with in view of its temporary nature and the often provisional character of the evidence ( post , p. 271A–B ) . |
| 10 | I think the problem here is that others , obviously banks and other industries , will be using computers and there will be a tendency then for people , when things go wrong or when they do n't understand , to become further removed from the technology . |
| 11 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 12 | He does seem to suggest , that if you 're directly interested or if you have a direct interest in something you ca n't take an objective view , and I would say that actually , members have shown their ability to erm , to achieve something different from that , the way they wear different hats at different committees , Mr comes to mind where he will argue for the D S O's , at the D S O managing board , and for the client at Education Committee . |
| 13 | ( Nearly new stalls at Rallies are proving popular or if you have access to a VHS video system , a coffee morning might raise a few funds ) . |
| 14 | The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered . |
| 15 | An overall clinical global grade was given according to Truelove and Witts ( table I ) At the end of the study patients were asked whether they found the enemas acceptable or whether they had encountered difficulty in their administration . |
| 16 | Many of the Act 's provisions , at the time of writing , are only beginning to be put into operation , but it is clear that once they have been fully implemented they will completely transform the educational system in Britain . |
| 17 | Whether or not Henry would have kept his promise if she had remained so is an open question , but it is clear that once he had also acquired Aquitaine he would never relax his grip on the territories which served as the vital bridge connecting his mother 's lands in the north and his wife 's lands in the south . |
| 18 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 19 | But much of it is equally applicable to debentures and many of the statutory provisions expressly apply equally to them , though it is clear that when they do so ‘ debentures ’ is usually used in its narrow sense of debenture stock or a series of identical debentures and not in its wider meaning of a single mortgage , charge or bond . |
| 20 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 21 | It is furthermore clear that when he expressed a favourable judgement on the Romanization of Spain and Gaul he was not copying what his most recent editor , F. Lasserre , has imagined to be a panegyric of Augustus . |
| 22 | Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards . |
| 23 | The yellow steps rose in steep flights but now it was clear that when she reached the top she would also be at the bottom , starting out . |
| 24 | It seems clear that if we pursue the present forms of control the judiciary will inevitably continue to be embroiled in decision-making which is of a broadly political nature in a double sense . |
| 25 | And we are clear that if we want to make a modern Britain , we must first change Britain . |
| 26 | But the Government has made it clear that if we want better water , we have to be prepared to pay for it . |
| 27 | But I think it 's absolutely clear that if we have , if we have no sort of terminal erm perhaps it is yes to terminal two at Stansted and I do believe that we must talk and think and act competent er Mr has put various the case but , but we are entitled to we represent Hertfordshire people and we must keep more confident er and it 's interests and I believe there is erm , if we do n't do something , somebody else would be doing that , erm and it 's and , and , and I hope that , that er the , will support and I believe that we will be doing erm so there 's a lot more complex work to be done without erm congestion on the M twenty five , although we 've got the work to put our case but at this very early stage be represented at the enquiry to put the evidence , to put the alternatives is absolutely . |
| 28 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 29 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 30 | As to the steps that are now being taken at Maastricht on the development of the Community , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that if he gets an agreement that is right for Britain and for Europe , he will sign , but if he can not , he will not . |