Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore in the artist 's interest to avoid using fixative on a finished drawing where possible because it tends to flatten the surface of the pastels . |
| 2 | ‘ But we will amend our side if necessary as we go along . |
| 3 | She had taken after her father , Astrid said , that dogginess — always going after a stick , leaping high to please the thrower , waggingly racing back with it and repeating the action as long as it pleased . |
| 4 | ‘ They have a future as long as they can channel their aggression in the right area . |
| 5 | Mr Benton said : ‘ Read 's did seem to have a bright future as long as they could overcome short term cash difficulties . |
| 6 | A parliamentary candidate has branded a football club as sexist because she 's been barred from a men-only dinner . |
| 7 | Anyone can start giving blood as long as they are between 18 and 60 years old and in good health . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 've been a soldier as long as I have , I tell you , you can smell a parasite from the other side of a black hole ! |
| 9 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 10 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 11 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 12 | anyone you allow to drive or use your car as long as your policy schedule allows this |
| 13 | Not only did this geezer Kev Knowles agree to turn out for us , he also said he would look after the programme as long as he could incorporate a number of religious tracts . |
| 14 | Garvey 's had this scheme in his mind as long as I can remember . |
| 15 | If you 've got something to say about anybody , make sure it 's good , there 's nothing wrong with gossip as long as it 's healthy in n it ? |
| 16 | The Panel will not regard an adviser as independent if he is in the same group as the financial adviser to an offeror , or if he has a significant interest in or financial connection with either an offeror or the target company of such a kind as to create a conflict of interest ( Rule 3.3 ) . |
| 17 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 18 | Ahmed : I think that the Union should support developments towards workers organizing around issues of oppression as long as it is within a progressive ideology . |
| 19 | However , the vendor will wish to delay consultation until as near to completion as possible or he will risk affecting the morale of his workforce if completion does not take place . |
| 20 | The PA will continue , with your help , its vigorous defence of the NBA as long as it is supported by the membership , and of course remains legal . |
| 21 | But none of this really bothered me , it was all piss in the wind as long as my eldest boy was true . |
| 22 | You can add or subtract any amount from one side of an equation as long as you do the same thing to the other . |
| 23 | Try as she might , it was impossible to keep the loft as clean as she would have liked . |
| 24 | Under s47(6) they must take " such steps as are reasonably practicable " to obtain access to the child unless satisfied that they already have sufficient information ( s47(4) ) . |
| 25 | There is nothing intrinsically evil about a scientific world outlook as long as it is rooted in the life and authority of God . |
| 26 | The teachers did n't seem to care about your academic work as long as you were all right in sport . |
| 27 | Women supported the idea of compulsory leave from work as long as it was paid leave and called for the adoption of the International Labour Organisation 's Washington Convention , which provided for six weeks maternity leave before and after childbirth . |
| 28 | There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed . |
| 29 | However I 've been told there is no law of trespass as long as there is due consideration to private property . |
| 30 | The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive . |