Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 2 | Such studies have received a lot of publicity , so it is small wonder that the average family doctor suspects a psychological cause rather than a physical one , especially where patients complain of multiple symptoms . |
| 3 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 4 | Only once Hilary admits to being seriously rattled . |
| 5 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 6 | Today some say they print up as well if not better than photographs taken with modern technology . |
| 7 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 8 | The volcanoes erupt from depths of around ten kilometres — much deeper than levels reached by drilling — and bring oil , gas , water and rocks to the surface . |
| 9 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 10 | Precise figures are hard to come by , because many European discount chains are privately owned , but no one doubts that they are taking a growing share of the $140 billion or so that Europeans spend on food each year . |
| 11 | Equipped with a refrigerated camper , so that specimens found in the glacier could be preserved intact until studied , Hansom and Luckey were astounded and thrilled to discover a perfectly preserved specimen of a new hominid species two metres inside the glacier . |
| 12 | There is a tendency for people 's whole outlook to be foreshortened , so that life exists from day to day " — and Eliot was by no means immune from such general fears . |
| 13 | When fertility and adult mortality are high ( m , J A ; γ0 ) , r - , so that selection depends on the effects on juvenile survival . |
| 14 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 15 | The first few days of what she and Cara now termed their ‘ Czechoslovakian Experience ’ had been carefully planned , so that Fabia knew in advance that she would never get to see Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 16 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 17 | He would like to rig the conference so that Israel goes on trial , with America as its attorney and the United Nations as judge and executioner . |
| 18 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 19 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 20 | Governments are well aware that a cycle of economic activity can be very advantageous provided it can be synchronized with the electoral cycle , so that booms occur at election times and recessions at non-election times . |
| 21 | His face was a cold blank mask , only the eyes were alive as he stared at Ryan — and then , with one swift movement , he took his hand away so that Ryan crumpled to the floor . |
| 22 | We then brushed out the curls gently so that hair fell in soft , loose waves . |
| 23 | He walked beside them on the pavement , three abreast , so that pedestrians coming towards them had to step out into the street . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it ? ’ said Fael-Inis , the golden eyes glowing and piercing , so that Fergus felt as if Fael-Inis was seeing into his mind . |
| 25 | The system is linked to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange so that contracts opened on SIMEX can be closed on CME , or vice versa , without additional transactional costs to market traders . |
| 26 | Rooms were too few and stairs too narrow ; ceilings were too low or , on the upper floor , did not exist , so that sleepers stifled in summer and froze in winter . |
| 27 | The bad news is that the eight-way — and seven-way — machines will not be single-image systems but two fours — or a four and a three — tied together in an MP configuration , so that software has to be loaded on each side . |
| 28 | Lastly , the CPA 1987 is not retrospective so that products supplied before 1 March 1988 are not covered . |
| 29 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 30 | A much more widespread resurgence has since followed , especially in South-East Asia , so that cases reported to WHO rose from 3–1 million in 1972 to 13–5 in 1980 ( although the latest figures include 3–3 million cases from China , from which no figures were available in 1972 ) . |