Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 2 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 3 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 4 | In order to make the exposition more tractable let us assume that j ( ) and are linear so that , on rearrangement , an equation of the following general form is derived : |
| 5 | Such family connections were very different from those in one-industry occupational communities and are important precisely because they are the basis of interaction in civil society and relate to political action . |
| 6 | 54 children aged 0–4 years who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed during 1972–89 , who were born in the study area and were resident there when cancer was diagnosed . |
| 7 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |
| 8 | Elizabeth , and Marion of course , heard him practise , and were kind enough and wise enough not to admire too uncritically , but to give fair , helpful comments . |
| 9 | This should never happen , but it has been known to , and being safe rather than sorry is always best . |
| 10 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
| 11 | The extreme reductionist approach that is represented in the above quotation , and is apparent again and again in his writings , not only in The Origin of Species but in many of his later books , is conspicuous by its absence from early plant ecological texts and is barely represented in the ecological literature until towards the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Snake venom is usually clear yellow and is dangerous only if it gets into the bloodstream . |
| 13 | He is indeed an international figure and is respected so and he 's one of the few people to have actually addressed the Security Council on the question of apartheid and has indeed spoken at many United Nations conventions on the question of apartheid . |
| 14 | ‘ I wo n't , ’ I promised , and was asleep again before the door closed after her . |
| 15 | Miss D'Arcy smiled again : she stood above him on the rise of Latrigg Fell and was impressed more than she had anticipated by the gallant and handsome figure he struck , posed so elegantly against the mountains . |
| 16 | Her work was too unconventional for immediate popular acceptance , but Cameron could tell how good she was , and was supportive even when she was discouraged . |
| 17 | He went back to his hotel for lunch and was surprised now that the conference had ended to find a good crowd in the dining-room , which was open to non-residents . |
| 18 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 19 | The librarians in the academic sector are particularly aware that students have few library and information needs and problems it the outset of their academic careers , but are mindful nevertheless that they may not have easy access to the students ( especially in the polytechnics and the universities ) until a much later stage of their courses , if at all . |
| 20 | Their offspring had one each but were tall rather than intermediate in height because the tallness factor is ‘ dominant ’ to the shortness factor . |
| 21 | Fellowship is not to be confined to congregations , but is essential within and between denominations , and in a time of growing ecumenical co-operation we rejoice that churches are beginning to share their liturgical and musical riches with each other . |
| 22 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 23 | Only confusable with Little Owl , but is brown rather than grey-brown , with more fully feathered feet , adopts more upright stance , and has quite distinct facial expression . |
| 24 | Ah , but is this only because people are suffering at the other end ? |